Founding Recruiter

Roger Healthcare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

401(k) plan

Career growth opportunities

Impactful early-hire role

Job summary

Roger is seeking a Founding Recruiter in San Francisco to own the talent strategy from sourcing through closing. You will partner with founders to align hiring plans with business goals, design scalable processes, and build a world-class recruiting function that represents our culture with integrity.

You will build trusted relationships with engineers, operators, and product leaders while owning the employer brand and candidate experience. This early role offers real ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in early-stage or high-growth startups.
• 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 who hunts proactively, not just manages inbound.
• High ownership mentality and comfort operating in ambiguity.
• Strong communication and closing skills, able to represent Roger compellingly.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring end-to-end: source, engage, interview, and close exceptional engineers, operators, and product leaders.
• Partner directly with founders to translate goals into hiring plans, headcount forecasts, and role definitions.
• Build the recruiting engine: design sourcing strategies, funnels, interview loops, and candidate experience.
• Be the face of Roger to talent, telling the story authentically and building trust with top candidates.
• Embed in the talent ecosystem by developing relationships across technical, healthcare, startup, and founder communities.
• Create scalable foundations: document rubrics, onboarding processes, and scalable interviewing standards.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Technical recruiting

Hiring across functions

Sourcing prowess

Ownership mindset

Communication & closing

Tools

Ashby

Job description

About Roger

Roger is an AI platform that frees home health clinicians from paperwork so they can focus on what matters: delivering life-changing care to our most vulnerable elderly patients in the comfort of their homes. Backed by leading investors like SignalFire, we've powered millions of visits, deployed to thousands of clinicians, and we're just getting started.

About Roger

Roger is an AI platform that frees home health clinicians from paperwork so they can focus on what matters: delivering life-changing care to our most vulnerable elderly patients in the comfort of their homes. Backed by leading investors like SignalFire, we've powered millions of visits, deployed to thousands of clinicians, and we're just getting started.

Why This Role Exists

The team we build right now will define Roger's trajectory. We need a Founding Recruiter who takes full ownership of how we find, attract, and close the exceptional talent that will accelerate this mission. This isn't a "fill roles as they come" position. You'll partner directly with founders to turn ambitious hiring goals into a repeatable, high-signal hiring engine, defining who we hire, how we hire, and how we show up to the talent market. This is a founding role with real impact, real ownership, and real expectations. As Roger scales, you'll have the opportunity to build and lead a recruiting team, own employer brand, and grow into a strategic People leader with a seat at the table.

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

• 5+ 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
• Unlimited PTO
• Retirement: 401(k) plan
• 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

Make a Real Difference - Hear from our Users:

“If I had to give Roger a rating out of 10, I’d give it an 11! You guys changed my life!!” - G.M. from San Francisco, Registered Nurse

“Roger AI saves me hours per day. I can easily focus on my patients now too.” - J.L. from Tucson, Registered Nurse

“Being a single mom is tough, but with Roger I can take the time to go to my daughter’s soccer game and also pursue further education.” - T.M. from Dallas, Licensed Vocational Nurse

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K