Founding Recruiter - Hybrid (Healthcare)
About The Position
Our client, a fast-growing healthcare startup, is hiring a Founding Recruiter to build their talent function from zero to elite. This is a hands-on, strategic role where you’ll work directly with leadership to hire top-tier engineers, critical non-technical talent, and ensure high-volume operational hiring runs like a well-oiled machine. This is not a plug-and-play recruiting job. You’re here to design the hiring engine, shape the employer brand, and help define the culture of a future category leader. If you like ownership, impact, and building things that actually last—this is your lane.
Requirements
- 3–8 years of recruiting experience, including 2+ years in an early-stage, talent-dense startup (pre–Series A/B)
- Strong track record hiring and closing Senior/Staff-level engineers
- True full-cycle recruiter with recent in-house startup experience (agency background welcome if you’ve crossed over)
- Sharp at structured interviews, data-driven recruiting, and partnering with senior leadership
- Mission-driven, low ego, high ownership, and collaborative by default
- Experience contributing to employer branding, founder storytelling, and referral-driven hiring
Nice To Haves
- Experience hiring GTM, Ops, or G&A roles is a strong plus
- Prior experience mentoring or managing recruiters/sourcers is a bonus
- Bonus points if you’ve helped scale a company from early-stage to public
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering and strategic business roles
- Proactively source and close top 1% talent using creative, non-cookie-cutter approaches
- Manage and support the ops recruiter handling frontline and delivery hiring
- Ensure quality, alignment, and consistency across all hiring streams
- Partner with founders and leadership to amplify the mission, vision, and value prop
- Drive top-of-funnel awareness through referrals, storytelling, and inbound strategy
- Implement and optimize the recruiting tech stack (Ashby)
- Build structured interview loops, calibration processes, and reporting dashboards
- Define what “great” looks like for interviewing at the company
- Deliver an experience that turns candidates into fans—even when they don’t get the offer
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
