Principal Recruiter, Healthcare Information Technology

Aya Healthcare

1d • $90,000 - $110,000

About The Position

The Principal Healthcare Information Technology Recruiter is a senior recruiting professional and subject matter expert responsible for attracting, engaging, and retaining top healthcare IT talent for consulting, contract, and project-based opportunities. This role delivers an exceptional candidate experience while serving as a trusted advisor to healthcare IT professionals, internal partners, and leadership. In addition to individual recruiting excellence, this role contributes leadership, strategic insight, and recruiting infrastructure development to support team growth and scalability.
This position focuses on recruiting highly skilled healthcare technology professionals who support clinical, operational, and digital transformation initiatives across healthcare organizations.
Who We Are:
We’re a $8+ billion, rapidly growing workforce solutions provider in the healthcare industry. We deliver tech-enabled services that help healthcare organizations meet and manage their contingent labor needs. We build and manage tech-enabled marketplaces for national and local healthcare talent and deliver contingent labor management solutions through our proprietary software platform.
At Aya, we’re obsessed with creating exceptional experiences for our clients, clinicians and employees. In fact, we put employee satisfaction above all else. Our team members are responsible for incomparable customer experience and we know that happy employees are critical to maintaining happy clients. We foster an entrepreneurial, high-energy, low-bureaucracy culture and value innovative thinking and creative problem solving. We embrace diversity in thought and backgrounds unified by a commitment to high achievement. When you join Aya, you’ll be surrounded by teammates who care about you as an individual and leaders who will help you grow both personally and professionally.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 5+ years of experience in Healthcare Information Technology recruiting, staffing, or a comparable metrics-driven recruiting environment
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in healthcare information systems and healthcare IT roles
• Proven success recruiting senior-level or highly specialized healthcare IT professionals
• Experience providing leadership, mentorship, or guidance within a recruiting team
• Experience contributing to or building recruiting team infrastructure, processes, or operating models
• Strong consultative, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Passionate about creating exceptional experiences for healthcare IT professionals
• Strategic, resourceful, and “outside-the-box” thinker
• Career-oriented with a desire to lead, influence, and grow
• Enthusiastic about joining a high-performing recruiting organization that recognizes and rewards expertise

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for complex, senior-level healthcare information technology roles across short-term, long-term, and project-based assignments
• Serve as a subject matter expert in healthcare information systems, advising candidates and internal stakeholders on roles, technologies, and market trends
• Proactively source, engage, and recruit highly specialized healthcare IT professionals, building long-term, trust-based relationships
• Educate candidates on Aya’s clients and the professional and personal benefits of healthcare IT consulting and contract work
• Partner with internal teams to understand evolving client needs and translate them into effective recruiting strategies
• Generate candidate leads through advanced sourcing strategies, referrals, networking, and market expertise
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with healthcare IT professionals across various specialties (e.g., business analysts, EHR/EMR, clinical systems, data & analytics, cybersecurity, revenue cycle, interoperability)
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of recruiting processes, tools, metrics, and best practices
• Support recruiting team infrastructure through mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and informal leadership
• Demonstrate strong motivation to achieve recruiting goals while balancing speed, quality, and candidate experience
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining urgency, organization, and attention to detail
• Champion a client- and candidate-centered mindset with a passion for service excellence
• Continuously seek improvement, innovation, and professional growth

Benefits

• Free premium medical, dental, life and vision insurance
• Generous 401(k) match
• Aya also offers other benefits to those that are eligible and where required by applicable law, including reimbursements and discretionary bonuses
• Aya provides paid sick leave in accordance with all applicable state, federal, and local laws. Aya’s general sick leave policy is that employees accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. However, to the extent any provisions of the statement above conflict with any applicable paid sick leave laws, the applicable paid sick leave laws are controlling
• Celebrations! We hit our goals and reward ourselves.
• Company-sponsored virtual events, happy hours and team-building activities are always on the horizon — plus, you get a special treat on your birthday!
• Unlimited DTO — we believe in time off!
• Virtual yoga, meditation or boot camp classes offered daily

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees