Founding Head of Talent

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
3D Printing • Healthtech
The Role
Build and lead the end-to-end recruiting function for a fast-growing AI, robotics, and manufacturing healthcare startup. Partner with founders on hiring priorities and org design, run executive and difficult searches, create sourcing strategies and structured interviews, build recruiting infrastructure, operations, training, and analytics, and improve offer acceptance and candidate experience while maintaining a high talent bar.
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About Hike Medical

Hike Medical is building the defining company in musculoskeletal care. We sit at the intersection of AI, robotics, and healthcare, operating across three product lines: a proprietary AI-vision platform that turns a 30-second, web-based foot scan into custom 3D-printed orthotics; an AI agent platform that automates the entire DME workflow from pre-visit processing through claims and revenue cycle; and SoleForge, our vertically integrated 3D-printing factory producing custom medical devices at a scale the industry has never seen.

Insoles today, full DME tomorrow, bionics by 2040. Custom insoles are just the wedge. Our long-term vision is bionics: AI-designed, robotically manufactured orthotic and prosthetic devices at scale, replacing a fragmented, manual industry that hasn’t changed in decades. Read the full vision at bionics2040.com.

We've stealthily raised $22M through Seed and Series A, backed by top-tier investors who backed companies like OpenAI, Anduril, and Mercury early. We run a fast, results-first, high-ownership culture out of our new SF Rincon Hill office. If you want to work at the frontier of AI, manufacturing, and healthcare, this is the place.

About the Founding Head of Talent

Hiring is one of the most important things we do. We're looking for our first Head of Talent to build the function from the ground up. This is a company-building role, not an HR role. You'll work directly with founders to answer: What should we hire next? How do we attract exceptional people before everyone else? How do we maintain our talent bar while scaling? How do we build a recruiting engine that compounds?

You'll own recruiting end-to-end while helping shape org design, hiring philosophy, interview quality, and how we scale as a company.

What You'll Do

  • Own company-wide hiring across engineering, AI, product, GTM, operations, clinical, manufacturing, and leadership

  • Partner with founders on hiring priorities, org design, and hiring plans based on milestones

  • Lead executive and difficult searches

  • Build sourcing strategies and structured interview processes that prioritize signal

  • Build recruiting infrastructure, operations, training, and analytics

  • Improve offer acceptance and candidate experience while maintaining an exceptional talent bar

  • Make Hike a company exceptional people want to join

Who You Are

  • You've built recruiting inside a fast-growing startup, ideally from Seed through Series B/C

  • You're equally comfortable sourcing a senior AI engineer, manufacturing leader, or enterprise sales executive

  • You think like an operator, not a recruiter

  • You care deeply about talent density

  • You're resourceful, move quickly, and enjoy building systems from scratch

  • You don't need excessive process to produce great outcomes

  • You enjoy spending time with candidates and hiring managers

Skills Required

  • Built recruiting inside a fast-growing startup
  • Own company-wide hiring across engineering, AI, product, GTM, operations, clinical, manufacturing, and leadership
  • Lead executive and difficult searches
  • Ability to source senior AI engineers, manufacturing leaders, and enterprise sales executives
  • Build sourcing strategies and structured interview processes
  • Build recruiting infrastructure, operations, training, and analytics
  • Improve offer acceptance and candidate experience while maintaining high talent bar
  • Operator mindset: resourceful, moves quickly, builds systems from scratch, values talent density
  • Enjoys spending time with candidates and hiring managers
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The Company
HQ: Peoria, IL
6 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Foot pain is the new plague amongst manufacturing workers and other workers of all types. It’s a costly issue for employers and increases absenteeism while lowering morale. Hike provides the highest quality, most affordable, and most scalable integrated solution to solve this problem for employers. We provide insoles that are shaped precisely for each foot using our ShapeCapture technology.

Why Work With Us

We're changing an industry with our ShapeCapture technology, and broadening the access to affordable foot healthcare to millions of Americans. Our founding team is young and we're dedicated builders. We're backed in a revolving fashion by a large scale clinic operator doing $25M revenue yearly- Hike is stable. We offer generous ESOPs and benefits.

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