Founding Recruiter

Department: Operations

Location: New York City, NY, United States (Remote)

Employment Type: FullTime

📌 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.

Weve raised over $14M in funding from early-stage investors like Core VC, Adverb Ventures, and South Park Commons, and are building for long-term category leadership. More importantly, were 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 5 days a week in the office.

🎯 Role: Founding Recruiter

As Founding Recruiter, youll be responsible for helping build the team that builds Alpaca. Youll recruit across every function in the company: software engineering, product, operations, provider growth, marketing, customer success, and clinical leadership. Youll 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 youll inherit a mature recruiting function.

Youll 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.

Youll 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 dont believe the best candidates are always actively applying.

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

You should constantly be asking:

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.

This includes:

• 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.

Youll be expected to become a trusted thought partner rather than simply filling roles.

Tell Alpacas story

Great recruiting is part sales, part storytelling.

Youll 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, youll help determine what recruiting resources we need, what specialization makes sense, and eventually help hire future recruiting team members.

🧠 Who You Are

Youve 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

Youre excited by variety and can quickly learn new talent markets.

Youre an exceptional talent hunter

You dont 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.

Youre entrepreneurial

You thrive in environments with ambiguity.

You dont wait for someone to hand you a process.

You identify problems, propose solutions, and execute.

You enjoy building things from scratch.

Youre 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.

Youre a strong closer

You understand that recruiting isnt just identifying talent.

Its 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 youre willing to work hard to find the right person rather than settling for the available one.

You have a high capacity for work

Building a company is hard.

Building a recruiting function from scratch is harder.

Youre 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