Founding Recruiter

Alpaca Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Dinner when working late

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Alpaca Health is seeking a Founding Recruiter in New York to build and scale its team across all functions. Your role will be pivotal in shaping the company culture and hiring processes.

You’ll be tasked with owning the entire recruitment process, leading full-cycle recruitment, and utilizing creative sourcing techniques. Candidates should have a strong entrepreneurial spirit and talent for finding exceptional candidates amidst ambiguity.

The position offers a full-time role with competitive compensation and a chance to make an impact in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience hiring across multiple disciplines including software engineering and clinical roles.
• Exceptional talent hunter with creative sourcing strategies.
• Strong understanding of candidate motivations and closing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting across engineering, product, operations, and clinical teams.
• Develop creative ways to engage and source talent.
• Partner with hiring managers to define roles and improve interview quality.

Skills

Creative sourcing

Strong closing skills

AI proficiency

Experience in diverse hiring

Job description

About Alpaca Health

Alpaca Health enables clinicians to become entrepreneurs, starting in autism care.

We help clinicians launch and scale their own clinics by providing AI‑powered software, payer contracting, and full back‑office infrastructure. Our goal is simple: shift power in healthcare away from large consolidated entities and back to clinicians.

We’ve raised more than $14M in funding from early‑stage investors like Core Innovation Capital, Adverb Ventures, and South Park Commons, and are building for long‑term category leadership. More importantly, we’re serving hundreds of patients, while growing 30% MoM.

This role is full‑time. We’re looking for candidates based in NYC or open to relocating who are open to five days a week in the office.

Role: Founding Recruiter

As Founding Recruiter, you’ll be responsible for helping build the team that builds Alpaca. You’ll recruit across every function in the company: software engineering, product, operations, provider growth, marketing, customer success, and clinical leadership. You’ll own the entire hiring process while developing creative, scalable ways to identify and attract exceptional talent.

This is not a recruiting coordinator role. This is not a role where you’ll inherit a mature recruiting function.

You’ll help design how hiring works at Alpaca from the ground up. The people you bring into the company will directly shape our culture, velocity, and ability to achieve our mission.

What You’ll Do

Own recruiting across the company

Lead full‑cycle recruiting for roles across engineering, product, GTM, operations, and clinical teams.

You’ll work directly with founders and hiring managers to define roles, build candidate pipelines, run interview processes, and close exceptional candidates.

Build creative sourcing engines

We don’t believe the best candidates are always actively applying.

You’ll develop creative ways to find and engage talent, including community‑building, referral systems, outbound sourcing campaigns, events, content, partnerships, and AI‑powered recruiting workflows.

How do we find talent that nobody else is talking to?

Turn recruiting into a competitive advantage

Build systems, processes, and automations that allow Alpaca to move faster than larger companies.

• Candidate sourcing workflows
• Outreach sequences
• Interview scorecards
• Hiring manager training
• ATS management
• Pipeline reporting
• Offer and closing processes

Partner closely with hiring managers

Help leaders identify what great looks like.

Challenge assumptions.

Improve interview quality.

Raise the hiring bar across the company.

You’ll be expected to become the trusted thought partner rather than simply filling roles.

Tell Alpaca’s story

Great recruiting is part sales, part storytelling.

You’ll help candidates understand why joining Alpaca is a career‑defining opportunity and communicate our mission, culture, and vision in a compelling way.

Build the foundation for a recruiting team

As the company scales, you’ll help determine what recruiting resources we need, what specialization makes sense, and eventually help hire future recruiting team members.

Who You Are

You've recruited across multiple functions

You have experience hiring across a variety of disciplines, ideally including some combination of:

• Software Engineering
• Product
• Operations
• Sales
• Marketing
• Customer Success
• Healthcare or Clinical roles

You’re excited by variety and can quickly learn new talent markets.

You’re an exceptional talent hunter

You don’t rely on inbound applications.

You know how to find people through creative sourcing, referrals, communities, events, research, and personalized outreach.

You enjoy the puzzle of finding candidates others miss.

You’re entrepreneurial

You thrive in environments with ambiguity.

You don’t wait for someone to hand you a process.

You identify problems, propose solutions, and execute.

You enjoy building things from scratch.

You’re AI‑native

You actively use AI to improve sourcing, outreach, research, screening, scheduling, and recruiting operations.

You constantly look for ways to automate repetitive work and spend more time building relationships with candidates.

You’re a strong closer

You understand that recruiting isn’t just identifying talent.

It’s helping great people make great decisions.

You can build trust, understand motivations, navigate objections, and create excitement around opportunities.

You care deeply about talent quality

You believe that a handful of exceptional hires can change the trajectory of a company.

You have strong judgment and high standards, and you’re willing to work hard to find the right person rather than settle for the available one.

You have a high capacity for work

Building a company is hard.

Building a recruiting function from scratch is harder.

You’re energized by ambitious goals, move with urgency, and take pride in doing whatever it takes to help the company win.

Why Join

• Direct exposure to company‑building at an early stage.
• Real ownership of critical initiatives from day one.
• The opportunity to materially impact families and clinicians.
• A fast learning curve that few roles can match.
• Strong compensation package

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Health benefits
• Flexible PTO
• Dinner when working late