Lead Technical Recruiter

Ambience Healthcare • San Francisco, CA

9d • $170,000 - $220,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

About Us: Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. Trusted by top health systems across North America, Ambience’s platform is live across outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings, supporting more than 100 specialties with real-time, coding-aware documentation. The platform integrates directly with Epic, Oracle Cerner, athenahealth, and other major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma, Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and other leading investors. Join us in the endeavor of accelerating the path to safe & useful clinical super intelligence by becoming part of our community of problem solvers, technologists, clinicians, and innovators. The Role: We’re looking for a mission-driven Lead Technical Recruiter to build and scale Ambience’s technical hiring engine. In this hybrid hands-on and managerial role, you’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to drive headcount planning, role scoping, and allocation across software, ML, platform, infrastructure, and security. You’ll own end-to-end recruiting—designing high-signal processes, elevating candidate experience, and executing closing strategies that consistently attract world-class technical talent. You’ll also mentor and coach hiring managers, acting as a strategic advisor, strengthen interviewing capabilities, and bring operational rigor and data-driven decision-making to our talent systems. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, and combines technical fluency with people leadership to help scale a high-performing technical organization.

Requirements

• Experienced Technical Recruiter 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, preferably 5+ years in high-growth startup environments, with a track record of hiring across backend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, security, and ML.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including at least 2 years formal management and effectively influencing executive stakeholders.
• Deep Technical Acumen Strong understanding of modern software engineering and machine learning domains, enabling credible and high-signal technical assessments.
• Able to communicate fluently with engineers and technical leaders to align on requirements, evaluate fit, and drive sound hiring decisions.
• 0-to-1 Builder Adept at building recruiting systems, processes, documentation, and workflows from the ground up in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments.
• Brings a bias toward action—experimenting, iterating, and refining rapidly based on data and results.
• Persuasive Communicator Skilled at storytelling and selling top talent on Ambience’s mission, technical roadmap, and long-term opportunities.
• Effective at influencing executives, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and presenting clear, data-backed recommendations.
• Champion of Candidate Experience Deep commitment to fairness, inclusion, and transparency throughout every stage of the hiring process.
• Creates thoughtful, trust-building interactions that leave candidates with an exceptional impression of Ambience.

Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Technical Hiring Own end-to-end recruitment for high-priority technical roles across Engineering and Machine Learning, including headcount management, role allocation, prioritization, and overall talent strategy.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to align on ideal candidate profiles, define MOCs, and drive clarity in role scoping—ensuring high-signal, efficient processes that deliver the right hiring outcomes.
• Build Systems of Scale, Not Just Pipelines Design scalable, repeatable recruiting processes—including structured interviews, events, rubrics, scorecards, and interviewer enablement programs.
• Implement tooling, automations, and workflows in Ashby to increase speed, quality, and signal across the hiring funnel.
• Drive Sourcing & Market Strategy Collaborate with sourcers and hiring managers to build high-impact sourcing strategies across channels—including AI tools, referrals, communities, social platforms, outbound programs, event-based hiring, and creative networking.
• Create compelling content, engagement materials, and activation campaigns, supported by talent maps and market insights that inform workforce planning and ensure pipeline health.
• Own Candidate Experience & Closing Lead candidate communication with thoughtful, transparent, and personalized touchpoints that uphold a best-in-class experience.
• Develop tailored closing strategies that effectively communicate Ambience’s mission, technical challenges, and long-term career trajectory.
• Partner with Leadership Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, product, and executive leaders on hiring strategy, headcount planning, and organizational design.
• Provide data-driven insights on pipeline health, talent trends, and process improvements—delivering clear executive summaries and recommendations.

Benefits

• An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology, on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients
• Dedicated budget for personal development, including access to world class mentors, advisors, and an in-house executive coach
• Work alongside a world-class, diverse team that is deeply mission aligned
• Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company
• Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage, quarterly retreats, unlimited PTO, and a 401(k) plan
• Ambience is committed to supporting every candidate’s ability to fully participate in our hiring process. If you need any accommodations during your application or interviews, please reach out to our Recruiting team at [email protected] . We’ll handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees