Hire the people who take Healthcare AI from innovation to adoption.
Executive and specialist search for AI diagnostics, MedTech, HealthTech and clinical AI companies scaling across Europe.
AI Diagnostics · MedTech · Clinical AI · Digital Health
AI Oncology Pathology · Lyon, FranceEuropean Sales Director hired in 63 days for DiaDeep
DiaDeep needed its first Sales Director to commercialise its CE-IVDR-certified AI pathology product across hospital and laboratory markets — a narrow, fully passive talent pool across Europe.
Pan-European search · 100% passive headhuntThanks again for the excellent service!
My-Tien Pham — Chief Operations Officer, DiaDeep
The AI Healthcare ecosystem we recruit for
AI Diagnostics & Medical Imaging
Radiology AI, digital pathology, early detection, biomarker-based diagnostics.
MedTech & AI-enabled Devices
Software as a medical device, connected devices, remote patient monitoring, and established diagnostics, imaging and device businesses adding AI capability.
Health Data & Clinical AI
Clinical data platforms, interoperability, clinical NLP, real-world evidence, personalised medicine.
Digital Health & Healthcare Technology
Virtual care, chronic-care platforms, patient engagement, hospital workflow technology.
Not sure which category fits? Most AI Healthcare clients sit across two or three of these at once — that's exactly the territory we specialise in.
Built for AI Healthcare companies at inflection points
Scaling after funding
A Series A/B/C round or strategic investment has created a leadership and specialist-hiring requirement that didn't exist six months ago — building senior leadership and specialist capability to match the new scale.
Entering Europe
Your first European GM, commercial, clinical or regulatory appointment — then the Country Manager, Sales Director or Market Access hire who understands the next market you enter.
Commercialising regulated AI
The technology works, and the next hires are the ones who get it adopted, funded through procurement and sold — people who can operate where AI capability, clinical evidence, data privacy and regulation genuinely intersect.
Building the next leadership layer
The team that got you here isn't automatically the team that scales you from here — strengthening commercial, technical, clinical and operational leadership as the organisation grows.
Business-critical appointments we support
Executive & Leadership
Commercial & Expansion
AI, Data & Technology
Clinical, Regulatory & Quality
Why specialist AI Healthcare search matters
The hardest candidates sit at intersections, not in single disciplines — machine learning and healthcare, product and hospital adoption, technology and regulatory reality, commercial ambition and clinical credibility.
A technically excellent AI candidate without healthcare context often stalls in front of a hospital buyer.
A healthcare expert without technology or scale experience often can't operate at the pace the business needs.
Our search focuses on the smaller number of people who can operate at both — not generic AI talent, and not generic healthcare executives.
A search model built for scarce specialist talent
specialised sectors since 2013 — not generalist recruitment
internal sales targets. No CV quotas, no padded shortlists.
candidate network across the UK, Europe and North America
CVs typically presented per role — depth over volume
of clients refer Optima to their own contacts
Cross market coverage
We search across Europe's major AI Healthcare talent markets rather than limiting a mandate to one domestic candidate pool.
How we do it?
Strategic consultation and proprietary market mapping — defining the target companies, candidate profile and relevant geographies.
Targeted headhunting — approaching relevant passive talent directly and confidentially, then assessing carefully.
A focused shortlist rather than CV volume — through to interview, offer and onboarding support.
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Common questions
What types of AI Healthcare roles can Optima recruit?
Across four groups: Executive & Leadership, Commercial & Expansion, AI, Data & Technology, and Clinical, Regulatory & Quality. We place both senior executive appointments and the specialist hires who report into them, matched through Executive Search and Mid-Management Search services.
Which European markets do you cover?
The UK, Germany/DACH, France, Benelux, the Nordics and Southern Europe — plus North American reach for US-headquartered companies building their first European team, covering where AI Healthcare commercial, clinical and specialist regulatory hiring most often happens.
How do you find specialist candidates who are not actively looking?
Through market mapping, not job-board advertising. We identify the companies most likely to employ the right candidate, then approach the strongest matches privately and discreetly, following up with careful assessment before presenting a focused shortlist rather than a volume of speculative applications.
How quickly can you build a shortlist?
Timing depends on the seniority of the role, the geography, and how scarce the required skill-set is. We begin with focused market mapping and targeted outreach immediately, prioritising a well-assessed, focused shortlist over rushing candidates through before they are properly evaluated.
Can you support both a single leadership hire and a wider European team build-out?
Yes. Many engagements start with a single business-critical appointment — a first European leader, for example — then extend into the commercial, clinical and technical specialists who report into that hire as the organisation scales across Europe.
What makes AI Healthcare recruitment different from conventional technology recruitment?
AI Healthcare hiring sits at an intersection most conventional tech recruiters don't search — machine learning capability, clinical credibility, regulatory reality and commercial adoption all at once. Generalist tech recruiters typically source from one side of that intersection only, which is why the strongest hires need credibility across more than one domain.