Founding Recruiter San Francisco Bay (Lafayette), CA - Hybrid

Our client is looking for a strategic, hands-on Founding Recruiter to build our talent function from the ground up. You will serve as a strategic partner to our leadership team, directly owning the search to hire world-class engineers and strategic non-technical roles. Beyond your own requisitions, you will oversee the broader hiring machine, managing our recruiting operations and high-volume ops roles to ensure excellence across the board. This is not just a "seat-filling" role. This is a chance to design our recruiting engine, define our talent brand, and shape the culture of a future category leader.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Recruiting Engine: You will own full-cycle recruiting for technical and strategic non-technical roles. You will act as a "hunter," using creative sourcing strategies to attract top 1% talent.
• Delivery Hiring Oversight: You will manage a high-volume ops recruiter responsible for our delivery team, ensuring quality and consistency across all hiring verticals.
• Talent Branding: You will work with both founders and our leadership team to amplify our story in the market, driving referrals and inbound interest.
• Recruiting Operations: You will implement the stack (Ashby), design structured interview plans, and create data-driven reporting loops to keep hiring managers aligned.
• Candidate Experience: You will define what it feels like to interview at Valerie Health, ensuring candidates become an advocate for our brand.

Who You Are

• Experience: 3-8 years of recruiting experience, with at least 2+ years in a talent-dense, early-stage startup environment. You have a proven track record of closing Senior/Staff-level Engineers.
• Operational Toolkit: You are data native. You know how to use modern ATS platforms (Ashby experience is a massive plus) to track funnel metrics and spot bottlenecks.
• Talent Bar: You prioritize quality over quantity. You understand that in a startup, one bad hire is worse than a missed hire.

• Communication: You can sell the vision. You are able to distill complex technical requirements and pitch the "rocketship" opportunity to candidates.

• Ownership: You dont wait for permission. You see a broken process, and you fix it. You are willing to roll up your sleeves for scheduling coordination one minute and advise a founder on comp strategy the next.

Bonus Points

• Experience hiring for non-technical roles (GTM, Ops, G&A).

• Experience managing junior recruiters/sourcers.

Compensation & Benefits

• Be a founding operator with meaningful ownership in an AI-native, high-growth startup

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and PTO

• Work directly with senior leadership on projects critical to company growth and scale