Founding Recruiter
Founding Recruiter owns end-to-end hiring for engineers, operators, and product leaders at an early-stage AI healthcare startup. Partners with founders to build scalable recruiting engine, source top talent, and establish processes like Ashby implementation. Requires 2+ years full-cycle recruiting experience, especially technical roles.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Own hiring end-to-end: Source, engage, interview, and close exceptional engineers, operators, and product leaders with quality and speed.
- Partner directly with founders: Translate company goals into hiring plans, headcount forecasts, and clear role definitions.
- Build the recruiting engine: Design and iterate on sourcing strategies, funnels, metrics, interview loops, and candidate experience.
- Be the face of Roger to talent: Tell the story authentically, represent the culture with integrity, and build trust with top-tier candidates.
- Embed in the talent ecosystem: Develop strong relationships across technical, healthcare, startup, and founder communities.
- Create scalable foundations: Build out our Ashby instance, document interview rubrics, and create onboarding processes that hold up as the team grows.
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in an early-stage or high-growth startup environment.
- Proven ability to recruit technical talent, especially engineers, and earn trust with highly technical candidates.
- Experience hiring across both technical and operational roles.
- A relentless sourcer. You know how to hunt, not just manage inbound.
- High ownership mentality and comfort operating in ambiguity.
- Strong communication and closing skills; able to clearly and compellingly represent Roger.
- Mission motivated. You care about healthcare and are excited to help build a company that makes a real difference for clinicians and patients.
Why Join Us?
- Platinum health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Unmatched career growth opportunity as an early hire
- Make a tangible difference in the lives of clinicians and patients
- Work on a mission that matters, backed by AI innovation and top-tier investors
Skills
Full-Cycle Recruiting, Technical Recruiting, Sourcing, Ashby, Interview Processes, Candidate Experience, Headcount Planning, Employer Branding, Recruiting Metrics, Onboarding Processes
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