Founding Recruiter

Alpaca Health•New York, NY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Alpaca Health is hiring a full-time Founding Recruiter to build and own recruiting across the company. The recruiter will lead full-cycle hiring for functions including software engineering, product, go-to-market, operations, provider growth, marketing, customer success, and clinical leadership, working directly with founders and hiring managers to define roles, develop candidate pipelines, manage interview processes, and close candidates. This is an early-stage, ground-up role—not a recruiting coordinator position or one within an established recruiting function. The Founding Recruiter will develop creative sourcing methods and scalable recruiting systems, improve hiring practices, and help make recruiting a competitive advantage. The role also involves communicating Alpaca Health’s mission and opportunity to candidates, acting as a trusted partner to hiring managers, and helping shape the future recruiting team as the company grows. Candidates should be based in New York City or open to relocating and willing to work in the office five days per week.

Requirements

Experience recruiting across multiple functions and the ability to learn new talent markets quickly.
Ability to source candidates through creative methods such as referrals, communities, events, research, and personalized outreach rather than relying on inbound applications.
Entrepreneurial approach: comfortable with ambiguity, identifying problems, proposing solutions, and building processes from scratch.
Active use of AI to improve recruiting activities such as sourcing, outreach, research, screening, scheduling, and operations.
Strong closing skills, including building trust, understanding candidate motivations, navigating objections, and communicating opportunities compellingly.
Strong judgment and high standards for talent quality.
High capacity for work, urgency, and willingness to do what is needed to help the company succeed.
Based in New York City or open to relocating, and willing to work in the office five days per week.

Nice To Haves

Experience recruiting in some combination of software engineering, product, operations, sales, marketing, customer success, or healthcare and clinical roles.

Responsibilities

Lead full-cycle recruiting across engineering, product, go-to-market, operations, and clinical teams.
Partner with founders and hiring managers to define roles, build candidate pipelines, run interview processes, and close candidates.
Develop creative sourcing strategies, including community-building, referral systems, outbound campaigns, events, content, partnerships, and AI-powered workflows.
Build and improve candidate sourcing workflows, outreach sequences, interview scorecards, hiring manager training, ATS management, pipeline reporting, and offer and closing processes.
Advise hiring managers on defining strong candidates, challenge assumptions, improve interview quality, and raise the hiring bar.
Communicate Alpaca Health’s mission, culture, and vision to candidates and help them understand the opportunity.
Help determine future recruiting resources and specialization, and eventually hire recruiting team members.