Founding Technical Recruiter

Parakeet Health•San Francisco, CA

6h•Onsite

About The Position

Parakeet Health is a healthcare-native AI platform that automates patient communication and front-office workflows throughout the patient care journey. Its AI voice agents handle tasks including answering patient calls, booking appointments, refilling prescriptions, processing faxes, and conducting outreach over SMS, calls, and email. The platform is trusted by national medical groups operating more than 700 clinic locations nationwide. Parakeet Health is hiring its first technical recruiter to own hiring end-to-end and work directly with the founders to define talent needs and build repeatable systems for finding, attracting, and closing candidates. The role also helps establish the company's talent brand, recruiting processes, and people operations. The position is in person five days a week at the company's downtown San Francisco office near Montgomery BART.

Requirements

5–7 years of technical recruiting experience, including meaningful exposure to early-stage startups from seed through Series B.
A mix of agency and in-house recruiting experience.
Experience building talent pipelines from scratch, rather than only managing inbound applicants.
A track record of hiring engineers across backend, AI/ML, infrastructure, full-stack, and data science profiles.
High agency and low ego; able to identify and address gaps without waiting for perfect instructions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with concise, personal, and persuasive communication.
Hands-on fluency with modern AI sourcing tools and the ability to distinguish useful tools from hype and tune filters rather than rely on unchecked automated outreach.
Genuine curiosity about engineering and healthcare, with the ability to have a coherent conversation with senior engineers about their work and interests.
Passion for improving patients’ lives and the ability to advocate for the company’s mission.
Strong closing skills, including navigating competing offers, compensation negotiations, and ambivalent candidates.
Ability to manage six or more searches in parallel while maintaining accurate ATS records.
Ability to work in person five days a week at the downtown San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end technical recruiting, including sourcing, outreach, screening, coordination, offers, and closing.
Deliver a personal, thoughtful, and responsive candidate experience throughout the recruiting process and through candidates’ first day.
Build the talent brand and community by organizing technical talks and private dinners and creating social media posts and outreach.
Partner with founders on interview design and calibration to maintain a high hiring bar and an efficient process.
Develop closing strategies with hiring managers before offers are extended.
Use AI sourcing, drafting, and automation tools thoughtfully, identifying where they provide leverage and where human judgment is more effective.
Maintain ATS data integrity and use recruiting metrics, including response rates and A/B testing, to guide decisions.
Support people operations, including onboarding, employee experience, and team events.
Represent Parakeet Health to candidates and communicate its mission of improving the patient care journey.