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About the Role

Joyful Health is seeking a Founding Recruiter to build and scale the talent acquisition engine from scratch. This role will own the entire recruiting function, including sourcing, closing, employer brand, systems, and processes, with a focus on leveraging AI and automation to drive efficiency and effectiveness. The goal is to grow this into a recruiting team within 12 months and establish a world-class talent acquisition function.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting across the company, running 10+ concurrent searches spanning engineering, product, operations, sales, marketing, and RCM.
Build and optimize recruiting infrastructure, including ATS, interview loops, scorecards, sourcing playbooks, and metrics/reporting.
Utilize AI tooling and automations across all stages of the recruitment funnel.
Build and own the employer brand, including the careers page, LinkedIn presence, and candidate experience.
Partner with hiring managers to coach them on interviewing, selling candidates, and closing.
Grow the recruiting function by hiring and managing additional recruiters within 12 months.

Requirements

5+ years of recruiting experience, with significant time at a high-growth startup where the function was owned or was an early hire.
Experience setting up an ATS, designing interview processes, and closing candidates.
Strong experience in engineering, product, and data hiring, with the ability to recruit across other functions.
Demonstrated ability to build AI-powered sourcing workflows and improve productivity through automation.
Experience in healthcare or healthtech recruiting is a plus.
Ability to thrive in ambiguity, move fast, take ownership, and sell a vision.
Low-ego, high-output mentality, energized by building something from nothing.

Skills

AI-powered sourcing
Outreach automation
Candidate evaluation
Pipeline analytics
ATS optimization
Interview loop design
Scorecard creation
Sourcing playbook development
Employer branding
Candidate experience management
Hiring manager coaching
Salesforce

Location

NYC-based
Hybrid

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Founding Recruiter
5+ years of recruiting experience

Salary/Compensations

$140,000–$160,000 base + meaningful early-stage equity

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits
Unlimited PTO (with a minimum of 10 days off a year)
Flexibility
Stipends for professional development courses & books
Regular team off-sites and events

About the Company

Building the financial operating system for healthcare, bringing joy back to healthcare by fixing the financial chaos behind it.
The healthcare payment system is complex and inefficient, leading to significant revenue loss for practices.
Joyful Health is building an AI-powered financial operating system for healthcare practices.
Mission: Simplify financial operations so providers can focus on patient care.
Recently announced $22M Series A led by CRV and other world-class investors.
Enormous opportunity to make a difference in the broken healthcare payment ecosystem.

Equal Opportunity

Please apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria.
Open to candidates with non-traditional experience.