Founding Talent Partner

Reposted 23 Days Ago
New York City, NY
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Software
The Role
As a Founding Talent Partner, you'll lead recruiting from 0 to 1, build hiring processes, strategy, and a top-tier candidate experience, while working closely with founders to shape Assured's team and culture.
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About Assured

Assured is transforming the infrastructure of U.S. healthcare using intelligent automation. We’re building an AI-native system of action for provider operations to automate the most painful parts of healthcare—starting with credentialing, licensing, and payer enrollment. These are slow, error-prone processes that cost the healthcare system billions and delay patient care.

We’re backed by top Silicon Valley investors and trusted by some of the most innovative provider groups and health systems. This is a rare opportunity to join an elite team reimagining one of the most broken parts of healthcare—using cutting-edge AI in the real world, at scale.


The Role: Founding Talent Partner

We’re looking for a founding talent partner who is obsessed with finding, closing, and elevating exceptional people. You will build the foundation of hiring at Assured—from sourcing frameworks and pipelines to candidate experience, evaluation rubrics, and onboarding.

You’ll work directly with the founders and functional leaders to define what “world-class” looks like across roles, and then go out and bring those people into the company. This is one of the highest-leverage roles at Assured: the team you help build will determine our trajectory.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in early-stage environments, enjoys owning things end-to-end, and wants their work to have a measurable impact on an industry that desperately needs modern infrastructure.


What You’ll Do
Build Talent From 0→1
  • Own the full recruiting lifecycle—sourcing, outreach, screening, closing

  • Design scalable hiring processes, evaluation frameworks, and scorecards

  • Build a top-of-funnel pipeline of high-caliber operators, engineers, product leaders, and GTM talent

Drive Talent Strategy
  • Partner directly with founders to define hiring priorities and org design

  • Deeply understand each role’s business impact and translate it into a clear hiring narrative

  • Develop repeatable systems for identifying top-tier talent early

Create a Best-In-Class Candidate Experience
  • Craft a recruiting process that is fast, personal, and high-signal

  • Build the employer brand—through storytelling, community engagement, outbound strategy, and relationships

Close Exceptional People
  • Become the expert on positioning Assured’s mission, product, culture, and upside

  • Creatively overcome objections and guide candidates from interest to offer acceptance

Lay the Foundation for Scale
  • Build sourcing engines, recruiting ops, and talent intelligence to support rapid growth

  • Implement tools, workflows, and dashboards that give us leverage as hiring expands


What We’re Looking For
Must-Have
  • Demonstrated track record hiring exceptional talent in a fast-growing startup or high-bar environment

  • Ability to source creatively using outbound, networks, events, research, and talent mapping

  • Strong closing instincts—able to communicate vision, opportunity, and trajectory

  • Structured thinking and strong written/verbal communication

  • Bias toward action: you move quickly, iterate often, and don’t get stuck

Preferred
  • Experience hiring across technical and business roles

  • Familiarity with early-stage org design, recruiting tools, and talent ops

  • Prior exposure to healthcare, AI, or regulated industries (not required but helpful)

  • Ability to build talent brand through content, storytelling, and community


You’ll Love This Role If You…
  • Want to build Assured’s team from the ground up—your fingerprints will be everywhere

  • Thrive in a 0→1 environment and love building systems, not just filling reqs

  • Believe the best startups are defined by the quality of their people

  • Enjoy being deeply embedded with product, engineering, and ops teams

  • Love the chase of finding and closing outlier talent

  • Want real ownership and direct collaboration with founders


Why Join Assured
  • Build for impact – The team you assemble directly accelerates how quickly patients get access to care

  • Extreme ownership – You will shape our hiring philosophy, process, and culture from day one

  • High-agency environment – Work with founders, engineers, and operators who move fast

  • Early-stage upside – Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and a true seat at the table

Top Skills

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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
74 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

In 2022, the U.S. spent $4.5 trillion on healthcare, about 17.3% of GDP. Administrative costs account for 25% to 30% of that total, fueled by credentialing, insurance enrollments, and essential but manual workflows.

We're on a mission to rebuild the operational backbone of healthcare. As AI doubles in capability at the half the price every year, we see a future where provider operations are run by lean teams supported by autonomous, reasoning-capable AI agents.

Prior to founding Assured, Varun Krishnamurthy and Rahul Shivkumar built and sold a VC-backed digital health startup. We've lived the operational chaos that comes with scaling a healthcare practice and set out to build the platform we wish we had.

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