{ "basics": { "name": "Kanav Jain", "label": "Product leader, founder, and hands-on builder", "email": "kanav@kanav.net", "url": "https://kanav.net", "summary": "Product leader, founder, and hands-on builder. 14 years building products from ambiguous problem to adoption and scale at Epic, Doximity, Transcarent, and CancerCompass. Since 2024: founded NextConsensus, built Ambit and Refract, developed Stims, and designed Fast Harm, Slow Repair, a draft recovery-evaluation scaffold. I'm looking for a senior product, research-product, agent-platform, or founding-product role that combines product leadership with building the product myself.", "location": { "city": "Chicago", "region": "IL", "countryCode": "US" } }, "work": [ { "name": "NextConsensus", "position": "Founder", "startDate": "2024", "summary": "Healthcare intelligence product for biopharma. Reconstructs how medical claims gain support, shed qualifiers, and spread across public sources; authority-transition forecasting is a research program on top.", "url": "https://nextconsensus.com" }, { "name": "Ambit", "position": "Author", "startDate": "2024", "summary": "MIT-licensed capability graph for agent systems. Separates what an assembled system can do from what it may do, with action-level authority recorded as a human authorization.", "url": "https://github.com/zz-plant/ambit" }, { "name": "Stims", "position": "Author / builder", "startDate": "2024", "summary": "Browser-native MilkDrop-style visualizer with 1,787 presets, direct .milk compilation, live editing, WebGL2 + guarded WebGPU rendering, in-browser recording, and a projectM reference harness.", "url": "https://toil.fyi" }, { "name": "Refract", "position": "Founder", "startDate": "2024", "summary": "AGPL-licensed deterministic source-history and provenance engine.", "highlights": [ "A daily observation bot replays revisions into a hash-pinned corpus of 16,146 events across ten benchmark pages." ], "url": "https://github.com/refract-org/refract" }, { "name": "Fast Harm, Slow Repair", "position": "Author", "startDate": "2025", "summary": "Draft recovery-evaluation scaffold with typed schemas, deterministic scoring, one of twelve development cases, and recovered/unsafe-persistence fixtures.", "highlights": [ "No model or clinical results yet." ], "url": "https://kanav.net/contact/" }, { "name": "The Crumple Zone", "position": "Writer and Researcher", "startDate": "2024", "summary": "Essays on AI governance, institutional power, why systems suspect faster than they exonerate, and designing for people under strain.", "url": "https://thecrumple.zone" }, { "name": "Andwise", "position": "Co-Founder and CEO", "startDate": "2022", "endDate": "2024", "summary": "Physician financial wellness: co-founded and led the company across product, funding, and go-to-market.", "highlights": [ "1,200+ physician users and a 700-member community.", "Convened a physician medical advisory board.", "Raised $240K in initial funding." ], "url": "https://www.joinandwise.com" }, { "name": "Transcarent", "position": "Director of Product, Care Experiences", "startDate": "2021", "endDate": "2022", "summary": "Directed product across Surgery, Urgent Care, Behavioral Health, and Oncology Care navigation.", "highlights": [ "Managed product managers across all programs.", "Led the Cancer & Decision Support pod: CancerCare v1, a symptom-checking triage tool including pediatrics, Healthwise content integration, and an in-app second-opinion experience with automated handoff to Nurse Ally." ], "url": "https://transcarent.com" }, { "name": "CancerCompass / CTCA Marketplace", "position": "Director of Digital Products & Strategy", "startDate": "2019", "endDate": "2021", "summary": "Directed digital product for an oncology information and navigation platform serving 30MM annual visitors.", "highlights": [ "Bounce rate -25%, chat conversions +267%.", "CTCA was later acquired by City of Hope." ] }, { "name": "Doximity", "position": "Head of Mobile Products & Growth (founding product lead, Doximity Dialer)", "startDate": "2013", "endDate": "2017", "summary": "Founding product lead for Doximity Dialer; left running user growth and the mobile portfolio.", "highlights": [ "Authored Doximity's HIPAA policies, procedures, and white paper (2014), establishing the compliance posture for a clinician network.", "Ran a national physician compensation survey with 35,000+ ID-verified respondents in one year and led the development of an ML salary model on the verified dataset.", "Product lead for Dialer: verified caller ID for clinician-to-patient calls. Dialer now carries more than 300,000 calls on an average workday across 250+ hospitals and health systems.", "Grew Talent Finder revenue 60% YoY to $5M across 1,000+ recruiters.", "iOS reviews rose from 3.7 to 4.8 stars." ], "url": "https://www.doximity.com" }, { "name": "Epic Systems", "position": "Technical Services Engineer", "startDate": "2012", "endDate": "2013", "summary": "EHR workflow configuration, alert fatigue reduction, and federal incentive programs for eight client organizations.", "highlights": [ "Launched a company-wide escalation process for regulatory updates and critical software bugs.", "Supported go-lives at Owensboro Health and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.", "Coached 100+ hospitals as SME." ] }, { "name": "Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center", "position": "Research Intern", "startDate": "2011", "endDate": "2011", "summary": "Studied cancer-derived exosomes and premalignant change linking lung cancer and COPD.", "highlights": [ "Established cross-department sample-collection protocols." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "NYU Stern School of Business", "area": "Business", "studyType": "MBA", "startDate": "2017", "endDate": "2019" }, { "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "area": "Biomedical Engineering", "studyType": "B.S. (with honors)", "startDate": "2008", "endDate": "2012", "courses": [ "Capstone: diabetes management portal with real-time feedback and clinical decision support", "BME Outstanding Leader of the Year (2012)" ] } ], "volunteer": [ { "organization": "Techstars Northwestern Medicine Healthcare Accelerator", "position": "Mentor", "startDate": "2025", "summary": "Mentor founders on product-risk operations, escalation design, and responsible scaling inside regulated healthcare workflows.", "url": "https://www.techstars.com/accelerators" }, { "organization": "BREAD", "position": "Co-founder & organizer", "startDate": "2015", "summary": "Co-founded a San Francisco nightlife project; produced 27 events, ran a weekly radio show, and booked talent for SF clubs across bookings, budgets, venue coordination, and night-of logistics.", "url": "https://bread.fm" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Accountable AI Product Systems", "level": "current focus", "keywords": [ "evidence traceability", "re-review when evidence changes", "human override design", "staged approval for AI deployment" ] }, { "name": "Clinical Workflow", "level": "expert", "keywords": [ "EHR integration", "alert fatigue", "care navigation", "routing rules" ] }, { "name": "Product Management", "level": "expert", "keywords": [ "0-to-1", "user research", "regulated products", "AI governance" ] }, { "name": "Evidence Systems", "level": "expert", "keywords": [ "provenance", "frozen forecasts", "Brier scoring", "calibration" ] } ], "frameworks": [ { "name": "Explainable / Challengeable / Correctable", "description": "Decision-readiness tests that can be used alongside NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act requirements.", "url": "https://kanav.net/framework/" }, { "name": "Governance Operating Model", "description": "The stages an AI deployment moves through before routine use, the review that runs when its evidence changes, who handles escalation, and independent checks on performance.", "url": "https://kanav.net/framework/#operating-model" } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://kanav.net/resume.json", "version": "b647b06", "lastModified": "2026-09-25T15:41:19-05:00", "availability": { "status": "Open to new roles", "seeking": "I’m looking for a senior product role combining hands-on building with product leadership.", "roleTypes": [ "Senior product", "Research product", "Agent platform", "Founding product" ], "bestFit": "I work best where the product category is still emerging — formulating the technical object that doesn’t yet exist, building it far enough to test whether it works, and bringing senior product judgment to what to build next. I operate across the full product lifecycle: originating technical architectures and working prototypes hands-on, and leading cross-functional teams to scale them, supported by a decade of organizational leadership including a 14-person cross-functional R&D org.", "recurringJob": "I work out where a problem needs to be solved — workflow, permissions, product architecture, implementation, or business model — and help the team decide what to build or change.", "location": { "base": "Chicago, IL", "relocation": "Open to relocation, including to Australia", "workAuthorization": "US and Australian citizen — no sponsorship needed in either country" } } } }