Senior Recruiter

Sailor Health; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO and sick days

Lunch and dinner covered

Team building events

Dynamic team culture

Job summary

A leading health technology company in New York is seeking a Senior Recruiter to develop and manage the recruiting function from the ground up. You will ensure a 5-star candidate experience while attracting top talent to provide compassionate care for seniors. The role offers competitive salary and exceptional benefits including health insurance, flexible PTO, and team-building events. Join a dynamic team focused on solving the mental health crisis among older adults with innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience recruiting in fast-paced startups or high-growth environments.
• Skilled at conducting high volumes of screening calls and structured interviews.
• Strong operator with a systems and data mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own recruitment at Sailor Health from applications through to offer signing.
• Provide a 5-star candidate experience during onboarding and hiring.
• Recruit best business and operational talent starting from sourcing.

Skills

Experience recruiting in fast-paced startups

Conducting high-volume screening calls

Managing ATS workflows

Partnering with hiring managers

Thrives in ambiguity

Mission-driven and empathetic

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

🏥 About Sailor Health

Sailor Health is on a mission to solve the mental health crisis among older adults. Getting older in America is tough: 90% of seniors live with chronic health conditions, 40% feel isolated, and older adults have the highest suicide rates of any age group. Sailor exists to change that.

Sailor Health is building the AI-native health system for happier and healthier aging. Sailor offers virtual mental health, care navigation, wellness classes, and AI care agents. Our vision is to become the trusted household name for older adults in America, setting a new standard for aging with dignity and honor.

We are growing quickly and have partnered with Medicare to offer affordable and exceptional healthcare to thousands of patients. We are honored to have the support and backing of world-class founders from Ramp, Nourish, and Headway.

⭐ About the Role

Location: New York City, hybrid, 2-3 days a week.

At Sailor, we believe we're only as good as our team. We’re looking for a Senior Recruiter to work closely with our founders to attract the very best talent. You will own the systems, processes, and relationships that ensure we attract and onboard world-class talent to serve seniors with compassionate, high-quality care.

This will be our first talent team member, building the corporate recruiting function from the ground up alongside Sailor's founders. You will scale this function and build our recruiting pipelines, lead sourcing and interviewing, and create the foundation for a best-in-class candidate experience.

If you’re excited to build the recruiting from the ground up at a fast-growing digital health company, we’d love to meet you.

💻 Your Key Responsibilities

• Own Recruitment at Sailor Health, from top-of-funnel applications through offer signed and activation
• Provide a 5-star candidate experience throughout onboarding and hiring, ensuring that every new Sailor has a world-class experience
• Recruit the best business and operational talent to join Sailor Health, starting with sourcing and interviewing them, subsequently convincing them to join us
• Manage our recruiter pipelines (inbound and outbound), as well as building out new recruitment channels, managed on Ashby (our ATS)
• Launch searches for brand new roles and teams, creating JDs, researching compensation, and launching interview plans
• Develop recruitment rubrics and criteria by working closely with our co-founders and hiring managers across functions

✅ Ideal Qualifications & Skills

• Proven experience recruiting in fast-paced startups or high-growth environments, with a strong track record of filling roles across multiple functions.
• Skilled at conducting high volumes of screening calls and structured interviews, quickly assessing candidate fit and moving top talent through the funnel.
• Strong operator with a systems and data mindset — comfortable managing ATS workflows (ideally Ashby), tracking KPIs, and using automation to scale recruiting.
• Experienced in partnering with hiring managers to craft compelling job descriptions, define success profiles, and align on interview processes.
• Thrives in ambiguity and zero-to-one environments, building scalable hiring processes that can evolve as the company grows.
• Mission-driven, empathetic, and passionate about building world‑class teams that expand access to mental health care for seniors.

Our Offer to You

• 💰 Competitive salary and founding member‑level equity
• 🩺 Comprehensive benefits, including Health, dental & vision insurance
• 🌴 Flexible PTO and sick days
• 🍱 Lunch and dinner in the office covered by Sailor
• 🎤 Team building events
• 🕺🏻 Friendliest and most dynamic team culture
• ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership for US employees, HSA, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health

Our Values

1. 💙 Make your Grandparents Proud: Remember why you’re here and build the standard of care you wish your grandparents received.
2. 💡 Best Ideas Win: We strip problems down to first principles and challenge each other – but once a decision is made, we row as one.
3. ⚡️Go Fast and Far: We have a burning sense of urgency AND we go the extra mile.
4. 🥇 Do What It Takes To Be #1: We obsess over excellence and challenge ourselves and each other to actualize our best selves.
5. ⛵ Happy Crew: A miserable crew rows slow. A happy crew rows fast. Fun is a performance metric.