Description
About LifeSpan
LifeSpan Digital Health is developing Workforce Sustainability Intelligence solutions that help healthcare organizations proactively identify workforce burnout, fatigue, distress, and retention risk before they impact staffing, patient care, and organizational performance.
Internship Objective
LifeSpan seeks a veteran intern to support market research and customer discovery efforts focused on the Veterans Health Administration (VA), healthcare workforce burnout, clinician well-being, and workforce sustainability. The intern will work directly with company leadership to validate market opportunities, conduct stakeholder interviews, and generate strategic insights that support future growth initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Research workforce shortages, burnout, retention challenges, and wellness initiatives across the VA and healthcare industry.
- Analyze market trends, policy developments, innovation programs, and funding opportunities related to workforce well-being.
- Conduct customer discovery interviews using the NSF I-Corps methodology with healthcare leaders, clinicians, VA stakeholders, wellness professionals, and residency program leaders.
- Identify key decision-makers, potential pilot partners, and strategic collaborators within the VA and broader healthcare ecosystem.
- Develop competitive intelligence on workforce wellness, burnout prevention, and healthcare technology solutions.
- Prepare executive summaries, market assessments, and strategic recommendations for LifeSpan leadership.
Expected Deliverables
By the end of the internship, the candidate will produce:
- 50-75 customer discovery interviews with documented findings.
- VA Workforce Sustainability Market Assessment.
- Competitive Landscape Analysis.
- Stakeholder and Opportunity Database.
- Strategic recommendations for pilot opportunities, partnerships, and market expansion.
Learning Opportunities
The intern will gain hands-on experience in:
- Digital Health Innovation
- Veterans Healthcare
- Customer Discovery & Market Validation
- Healthcare Market Research
- Startup Growth Strategy
- Executive-Level Decision Making
Impact
This internship will help LifeSpan evaluate opportunities within the Veterans Health Administration and broader healthcare workforce market while contributing to solutions designed to improve clinician well-being, workforce resilience, retention, and patient care for those who serve our nation's veterans.
Compensation
This is a paid 3-month internship position. The intern will work 20 hours per week and compensation is $17.31 per hour ($750.00 twice per month). The intern will be hired by the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation and perform their internship duties at 850 PBC (850 N. 5th St., Phoenix, AZ 85004) or as otherwise agreed.
Equal Opportunity
The Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation recruits, hires, develops, and promotes employees based on the individual’s ability and job performance. This policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, color, age, disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law extends to all conditions and all areas of the workplace. Hiring decisions, promotions, training, pay, benefits, layoffs, terminations, in fact, all personnel actions, are covered by this policy.
Contact:
Jeffrey Cary
Chief Executive Officer
LifeSpan Digital Health, Inc.
www.lifespandh1.com
Dylan Peay, PhD
AZAdvances: Entrepreneurial and Workforce Programs
850 N. 5th St., Phoenix, AZ 85004
Email: dylan@azadvances.org m: (484)362-4768
Requirements
Desired Qualifications
- Military veteran strongly preferred.
- Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Business, Health Informatics, Public Policy, Biomedical Sciences, or a related field within the state of Arizona
- Strong research, analytical, and communication skills.
- Comfortable conducting interviews and synthesizing qualitative findings.
- Interest in veterans' health, healthcare innovation, workforce well-being, and startup environments.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
