Founding Recruiter

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 understand that recruiting isn’t…