Talent Lead
Why you should join us
Tandem is a generational opportunity to rethink how we bring new therapies to market, and our path to doing so is significantly de-risked – we have:
Exponential organic growth: We have product-market fit and are growing rapidly. Tandem supports thousands of new patients every day, is spreading with doctors through word-of-mouth, and works with the largest biopharma companies in the world.
An AI-first business model: Our approach is distinctly enabled by AI, but our business gets stronger (not commoditized) as foundation models improve. We are building durability through two-sided network effects that compound over time.
Top tier investors: With the traction to support conviction in our model, we raised significant funding from top investors (Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, and Accel) to build an exceptional team of engineers and operators.
Our number one priority is scaling to market demand. We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow. We move fast and need to move faster.
All full-time roles are in person in New York. You can learn more about working with us in the last section of this page.
About the role
As Talent Lead, you will own the strategy and execution of everything related to hiring — from top-of-funnel sourcing to closing, onboarding, and org design. You will be responsible for ensuring that Tandem stays ahead of its talent curve, not behind it. This role blends operator mindset, systems thinking, and high-urgency recruiting execution. You will build a high-quality, high-velocity hiring engine across technical, business, and leadership roles, while helping the rest of the team raise their hiring bar and make faster, better people decisions.
You will partner directly with the CEO and executive team on hiring goals, headcount planning, leveling, and compensation, and build the infrastructure to support it all. You will also coach and manage our early recruiters and help define what great looks like for recruiting at Tandem as we grow. This is a rare opportunity to own the full-stack talent function in a company that takes hiring incredibly seriously and views it as core to its competitive edge. We are committed to making Tandem a company that is known for the quality of its team and that hyper talented individuals dream of joining.
This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to “act like an owner” and commit yourself to Tandem’s success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and long-term culture, we want to hear from you.
If you join, you will:
Lead end-to-end hiring across engineering, AI, product, GTM, operations, and leadership
Build and manage a structured, outbound-heavy recruiting engine that moves fast and hits the bar
Partner with execs on hiring plans, prioritization, org design, leveling, and compensation
Own recruiting strategy as a business function, forecasting needs, tracking funnel performance, and optimizing hiring ROI
Manage and coach individual contributor recruiters (starting with a strong founding recruiter already in place)
Design and evolve interview processes, candidate experience, and top-of-funnel programs
Lay the foundation for broader talent infrastructure — onboarding, contractor sourcing, people systems, and employer brand
We’ll be most excited if you have:
6–12 years in recruiting, talent strategy, or operations, ideally at a high-growth startup or in a top-tier hiring org
Proven ability to build or scale fast, effective hiring engines across functions and levels
Strong analytical and systems thinking — you treat recruiting as a pipeline and understand funnel math, resourcing, and hiring velocity
Excellent written and verbal communication, with exceptional ability to pitch top-tier candidates and quality taste for language in JDs and other external material
Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
High NPS with your former teammates
This is a list of ideal qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We’re excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
Working with us
Tandem is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo.
We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:
Commit to audacity. "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right.”
Do the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing.
Find the shortest path. Use hacks, favors, and backdoors. Only take a longer road on purpose.
Spit it out. Be direct, invite critique, avoid equivocation – we want right answers.
Be demanding and supportive. Expect excellence from everyone and offer help to achieve it.
Do what it takes to be number 1. We work hard to make sure we win.
We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees). Everyone who joins early will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.
We also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees):
Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
Lunch at the office every day and Dinner at the office after 7 pm.
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Tandem (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.
Tandem is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.