Founding Recruiter
At a glance
Mid-level Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at Roger Healthcare. San Francisco · full-time · $160,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run recruiting from the first outreach through interviews and offer close for engineering, operations, and product leadership roles
- Turn founder discussions into hiring plans, headcount projections, and well-defined roles
- Build and refine sourcing approaches, candidate funnels, recruiting measures, interview stages, and candidate experience
- Represent Roger to candidates and build relationships in technical, healthcare, startup, and founder networks
- Set up Ashby, record interview rubrics, and develop onboarding steps that can support a growing team
What you bring
- At least five years of recruiting across the full hiring cycle, preferably at an early or fast-growing startup
- A track record of hiring technical talent, especially engineers, and gaining credibility with highly technical candidates
- Experience filling both technical and operational positions, with strong sourcing and candidate-closing skills
Who this fits
This founding role suits a recruiter who can build hiring processes while working directly with founders and recruiting across technical and operational teams. The position is onsite in San Francisco.
From the employer
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