Founding Recruiter - Hybrid (Healthcare)

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.

What We’re Looking For

• 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)

• Experience hiring GTM, Ops, or G&A roles is a strong plus

• Prior experience mentoring or managing recruiters/sourcers is a bonus

• 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

• Bonus points if you’ve helped scale a company from early-stage to public

What You’ll Do

Build the Recruiting Engine (≈80%)

• Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering and strategic business roles

• Proactively source and close top 1% talent using creative, non-cookie-cutter approaches

Oversee High-Volume Hiring (≈20%)

• Manage and support the ops recruiter handling frontline and delivery hiring

• Ensure quality, alignment, and consistency across all hiring streams

Talent Brand & Storytelling

• Partner with founders and leadership to amplify the mission, vision, and value prop

• Drive top-of-funnel awareness through referrals, storytelling, and inbound strategy

Recruiting Operations

• Implement and optimize the recruiting tech stack (Ashby)

• Build structured interview loops, calibration processes, and reporting dashboards

Candidate Experience

• 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

Tech Stack

• Ashby (ATS)