Business Recruiting Lead

About Stepful: Stepful partners with healthcare institutions to build talent pipelines and career pathways. We are reimagining allied healthcare training with a digital-first environment for student cohorts that prepare job-ready graduates five times faster, at a fraction of the cost. Stepful graduates, primarily from underrepresented communities, go on to work at leading healthcare institutions. Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital and AlleyCorp and recently closed a round led by Oak HC/FT.

About the Role:
We’re hiring a Business Recruiting Lead to drive talent strategy across all business and high-volume functions. This is a unique opportunity to be the founding leader of our Business & GTM recruiting team, supporting full-time hiring across critical teams (Sales, Student Operations, Finance, and G&A), while also overseeing our high-volume function that hires hundreds of instructors, coaches, and coordinators who directly support Stepful’s students.

This role reports directly to the Head of People and will work closely with leaders across the company to scale talent thoughtfully and efficiently.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead Business & GTM Hiring:
  Drive full-cycle recruiting for priority business roles across Sales, Student Operations, Finance, and G&A functions.

• Own High-Volume Recruiting Strategy:
  Oversee our high-volume hiring engine, managing a team of 2 contract recruiters who hire instructors, coaches, and coordinators across the country. Set strategy, improve process, and ensure quality at scale.

• Partner with Leaders:
  Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, helping them define roles, build efficient hiring plans, and raise the bar on quality with each hire.

• Build Recruiting Infrastructure:
  Contribute to core initiatives including interviewer and hiring manager training, structured interviewing, process documentation, and equitable hiring practices.

Who You Are:

• 6+ years of recruiting experience, with success hiring across business functions at high-growth startups

• Experience owning or managing high-volume hiring processes and recruiters

• Strategic and execution-focused—you can go from shaping hiring plans to rolling up your sleeves and sourcing candidates

• Strong project management skills; you know how to prioritize and scale what works

• Comfortable in fast-paced, high-change environments

• Passionate about helping people and making career paths more accessible

Why Stepful:

• Join a fast-growing, mission-driven startup with real impact

• Shape recruiting from the ground up and influence how our team scales

• Work with a collaborative, humble, and ambitious team

• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits

• Hybrid work environment in NYC

At Stepful, we're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.