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New York, New York, United States
Onsite
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: make it dramatically easier for exceptional clinicians to build independent practices.
We've raised over $14M from investors including Core Innovation Capital, Adverb Ventures, and South Park Commons. Today we're serving hundreds of families and growing over 30% month over month.
We're building a generational company, and that starts with building an exceptional team.
This is a full-time role based in New York City. We work together in person five days per week.
We believe recruiting is an engineering problem.
The best companies don't simply hire great people. They build systems that consistently discover, attract, evaluate, and close exceptional talent before everyone else.
As our Head of Talent Engineering, you'll build that system.
You'll combine recruiting, automation, AI, software, content, operations, and storytelling to create one of the highest-performing talent engines in startups.
You'll recruit incredible people yourself, but just as importantly, you'll design the machine that makes exceptional hiring inevitable.
The people you hire and the systems you build will directly determine Alpaca's trajectory.
Design the infrastructure that powers hiring across the company.
This includes:
AI-powered sourcing systems
Recruiting automations and workflows
Candidate research pipelines
Outreach engines
Interview infrastructure
Recruiting analytics
Talent CRM
Hiring dashboards
Internal recruiting tools
You'll constantly ask:
"How can software replace manual recruiting work?"
Own executive and critical hiring across engineering, product, GTM, operations, clinical leadership, and emerging functions.
You'll partner directly with founders to define roles, build candidate pipelines, run interview processes, and close world-class talent.
We care far more about talent density than hiring volume.
The best candidates rarely apply.
Develop creative ways to identify talent before anyone else through:
AI research
Outbound sourcing
Community building
Referral networks
Events
Content
University partnerships
Open-source contributions
Founder networks
Custom datasets
You enjoy solving the puzzle:
"Where are the exceptional people nobody else is talking to?"
Recruiting should improve every month.
Design systems that continuously increase speed, quality, and leverage.
Examples include:
AI sourcing agents
Automated candidate enrichment
Personalized outreach generation
Scheduling automation
Candidate scoring
Interview calibration
Offer workflows
Recruiting dashboards
Knowledge management
You think like an operator and build like an engineer.
Partner closely with hiring managers to define excellence.
Improve interview quality.
Design better work samples.
Challenge assumptions.
Continuously improve how we evaluate talent.
The goal isn't simply filling positions.
It's building one of the strongest teams in healthcare.
Exceptional recruiting begins long before the first outreach.
Help establish Alpaca as one of the most exciting places to build a career through:
Founder content
Engineering content
Recruiting campaigns
Events
Community engagement
Candidate experience
Employer branding
Great recruiting is exceptional storytelling.
As Alpaca grows, you'll define how recruiting scales.
You'll determine:
Which roles to hire internally
Which work should be automated
Where specialized recruiters make sense
How AI changes recruiting
How to maintain hiring quality at scale
You believe that a handful of extraordinary people can change the trajectory of an entire company.
You'd rather leave a role open than lower the hiring bar.
You naturally look for leverage.
Whenever you perform repetitive work, your instinct is to automate it.
You enjoy building processes that become competitive advantages.
You actively use AI throughout your workflow.
Research.
Sourcing.
Outreach.
Scheduling.
Evaluation.
Automation.
Prompting.
Agentic workflows.
You aren't experimenting with AI.
You already work differently because of it.
You love software, but recruiting is ultimately about people.
You can move seamlessly between building workflows and building relationships.
You thrive in ambiguity.
Nobody needs to tell you what to build next.
You identify bottlenecks, design solutions, and execute quickly.
Building from zero energizes you.
Great recruiting isn't convincing people.
It's helping exceptional people make exceptional decisions.
You build trust, understand motivations, navigate objections, and communicate opportunity with conviction.
Building a generational company requires exceptional people.
You're energized by ambitious goals, move with urgency, and care deeply about quality.
You believe recruiting is one of the highest-leverage functions inside a startup.
This is a rare opportunity to define how a company hires from its earliest days.
You'll build a recruiting function powered by AI from the ground up, partner directly with the founders on every strategic hire, and shape the culture, velocity, and trajectory of the business.
If you enjoy building systems that compound, experimenting with new technology, and helping exceptional people find meaningful work, you'll have enormous ownership here.
Competitive salary
Meaningful equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible PTO
Dinner when working late
Work alongside an ambitious, high-performing team in NYC