Founding Recruiter

Joyful Health•New York City, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Joyful Health is building the AI-powered financial operating system for healthcare practices. Our mission is to bring the joy back to running a private practice by simplifying financial operations so providers can focus on patient care. We spent 10 months working as fractional CFOs for a dozen practices, doing this work side by side with providers as we developed our product. We just announced our $22M Series A led by CRV and world-class investors including the founders of MongoDB & KAYAK. We have an enormous opportunity in front of us. The broken healthcare payment ecosystem impacts practices of all sizes, and the opportunity to make a real difference is massive. If you're passionate about empowering medical practices and excited to tackle one of the most important (& challenging!) problems in healthcare, we'd love to meet you.

Requirements

Deeply aligned with Joyful Health's mission — Motivated by fixing broken systems in healthcare and believe that the financial side of care delivery deserves the same innovation as the clinical side.
Built recruiting from scratch before — 5+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful time at a high-growth startup where you owned the function or were one of the first recruiting hires. You've set up an ATS, designed interview processes, and personally closed hard-to-land candidates.
Lean technical but can recruit across the board — Strongest muscle is engineering, product, and data hiring, but have successfully filled go-to-market, operations, and business roles too.
AI-native and can prove it — Don't just 'use AI tools.' Build automations, design AI-powered sourcing workflows, and can articulate exactly how your approach makes you 3x more productive than a traditional recruiter.
Healthcare or healthtech recruiting experience — Understand the talent landscape, the language, and what motivates people who work in this space. Not required, but a strong plus.
A closer with startup DNA — Thrive in ambiguity, move fast, take ownership, and know how to sell a vision to candidates who have multiple options. Low-ego, high-output, and energized by building something from nothing.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare or healthtech recruiting experience

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting across the company: Run 10+ concurrent searches spanning engineering, product, operations, sales, marketing, and RCM. You'll lean technical but be capable across every function.
Build & optimize our recruiting infrastructure: Optimize our ATS (we like Ashby), design interview loops, create scorecards, build sourcing playbooks, and establish the metrics and reporting that let leadership see exactly where we stand on every role.
Be the most AI-forward recruiter we've ever met: Use AI tooling and automations across every stage of the funnel — sourcing, outreach personalization, screening, scheduling, pipeline analytics, and market intelligence. You should be building workflows that make a one-person recruiting team perform like a three-person one.
Build and own the employer brand: Tell Joyful Health's story in a way that makes exceptional people want to join. Own our careers page, LinkedIn presence, and candidate experience end-to-end.
Partner deeply with hiring managers: Coach founders and department leads on how to interview well, how to sell candidates, and how to close. Be the person who raises the bar on hiring quality across the company.
Grow this into a team: Within 12 months, hire and manage additional recruiters as the company scales. You're building a function, not just filling roles.