Founding Recruiter
About the Company
Valerie Health is the AI front office for independent provider groups. We are reimagining how independent practices operate by using AI to modernize patient/provider communication, enhance care, and drive industry-changing operational efficiencies.
Why join us now?
Team: We are led by Pete Shalek (2x health tech exits, including a $600M acquisition by Optum) and Nitin Joshi (scaled Uber Eats + Health, Stripe Connect, and Bridge–acquired by Stripe for $1.1B). Beyond our founders, our team brings DNA from category leaders (Uber, Stripe, Meta), high-growth unicorns, and top consulting firms.
Trajectory: We partner with leading independent specialty groups across the U.S., automating hundreds of thousands of tasks each month and growing 50%+ month over month with 300% net revenue retention.
Funding: We have raised $39m from world-class investors including Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, Primary Ventures, and BoxGroup.
About the Role
We are looking for a strategic, hands-on Founding Recruiter to build our talent function from the ground up. You will serve as a strategic partner to our leadership team, directly owning the search to hire world-class engineers and strategic non-technical roles. Beyond your own requisitions, you will oversee the broader hiring machine, managing our recruiting operations and high-volume volume ops roles to ensure excellence across the board.
This is not just a "seat-filling" role. This is a chance to design our recruiting engine, define our talent brand, and shape the culture of a future category leader.
What You’ll do
Strategic Recruiting Engine: You will own full-cycle recruiting for technical and strategic non-technical roles. You will act as a "hunter," using creative sourcing strategies to attract top-1% talent.
Delivery Hiring Oversight: You will manage a high-volume ops recruiter responsible for our delivery team, ensuring quality and consistency across all hiring verticals.
Talent Branding: You will work with both founders and our leadership team to amplify our story in the market, driving referrals and inbound interest.
Recruiting Operations: You will manage and implement the recruiting stack, design structured interview plans, and create data-driven reporting loops to keep hiring managers aligned.
Candidate Experience: You will define what it feels like to interview at Valerie Health, ensuring candidates become an advocate for our brand.
Who You Are
Experience: 2-6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including 1-2+ years in a high-growth startup, talent-dense engineering firm, and/or a top tier search firm. You have a proven track record of closing Senior/Staff level Engineers.
Operational Toolkit: You are data-native. You know how to use modern ATS platforms (Ashby experience is a massive plus) to track funnel metrics and spot bottlenecks.
Talent Bar: You prioritize quality over quantity. You understand that in a startup, one bad hire is worse than a missed hire.
Communication: You can sell the vision. You are able to distill complex technical requirements and pitch the "rocketship" opportunity to candidates.
Ownership: You don’t wait for permission. You see a broken process, and you fix it. You are willing to roll up your sleeves for scheduling coordination one minute and advise a founder on comp strategy the next.
Bonus Points
Experience hiring for non-technical roles (GTM, Ops, G&A).
Experience managing junior recruiters/sourcers.
Compensation & Benefits
Be a founding operator with meaningful ownership in an AI-native, high-growth startup
Competitive salary, equity and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) and PTO
Work directly with senior leadership on projects critical to company growth and scale