Founding recruiter

Hera•New York City, NY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Hera is creating a new profession in healthcare called the Hero, a dedicated care manager for families. Heroes educate, coordinate, and advocate for vulnerable populations, and the company is covered by insurance to serve families nationwide. The company is seeking a Founding Recruiter to build its talent brand and recruit future team members. This role is critical for the company's growth and will involve crafting the candidate experience and telling Hera's story to potential hires. The founding team has raised $34M from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures, has 10x'ed revenue organically in the last 6 months, and has partnerships with major healthcare institutions. The recruiting role is considered a strategic function, not just a support role, and will work closely with the founders to identify and attract top talent. The ideal candidate will have a 'hunter' mentality, be proficient in AI sourcing tools, and be able to manage the entire recruitment funnel from sourcing to closing. They will also partner on talent strategy, help define roles and hiring priorities, and ensure the recruitment process is as distinctive as the company's mission. The company values a mission-driven approach, quality over speed, collaboration, empathy, and a willingness to tackle difficult problems with urgency and effort.

Requirements

Real hunter DNA.
Source in an AI-native way, using every tool available.
Volume without craft doesn't work, and craft without volume doesn't either.
Ability to sell a mission, not a job.
Ability to hold the whole company narrative in your head and adapt as it evolves.
Relentless on sourcing, fluent with AI tools.
Treat 'no response' as the start of a sequence, not the end of one.
Experience running full-cycle recruiting.
Experience closing candidates across technical and non-technical roles.
Understanding that a founding engineer, a clinician, and a BD lead each need a completely different pitch.
Obsession over candidate experience.
Ability to build and thrive bringing clarity to ambiguity.
Ability to track own metrics and be rigorous about what's working.
Ability to read people deeply and catch unspoken hesitations.
Based in NYC or willing to relocate.
Missionaries not mercenaries.
Enjoy the uphill climb of wrestling hard problems.
Attack problems and play offense.
Willingness to have limits stretched and own unreasonably substantial outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a startup environment.
Experience recruiting for healthcare roles.
Experience with unique talent events like 'talent show where every act is over 65' or 'Dinner with Nonna series'.

Responsibilities

Craft every touchpoint future team members experience.
Own the entire funnel: sourcing, screening, and closing end to end, across both technical and business roles.
Run the recruiting process, own the candidate experience, and make every hiring manager better at their part of it.
Hunt for talent using every tool available, including AI-native methods, to find, reach, and win people nobody else is finding.
Partner on talent strategy, helping to shape which roles are opened, in what order, and what 'great' looks like for each.
Bring rigor to how loops are run, bars are calibrated, and decisions are made.
Push the company on what's working, what's not, and what unconventional recruiting moves can be tried.
Sell a mission, not a job, ensuring candidates believe in Hera's mission and their place in it.
Hold the whole company narrative and adapt as it evolves.
Build a pipeline from scratch rather than managing inbound applications.
Close candidates across technical and non-technical roles, understanding the different pitches required for various positions.
Obsess over candidate experience, recognizing every interaction as brand-building.
Track own metrics, be rigorous about what's working, and iterate without being told.
Read people deeply to understand candidate hesitations (e.g., compensation, conviction, partner location).