Head of Talent Acquisition, Function
Insights and tracking for health assessments and lab tests
Posted today
Insights and tracking for health assessments and lab tests
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to live 100 healthy years.
Role
Who you are
- Director+ level experience leading a global Talent Acquisition function
- Proven experience building a TA organization from 0 to 1 and scaling it to 1 to n in high-growth environments
- Experience supporting hypergrowth, IPO readiness, acquisition, or significant scale transitions
- Background in AI-native or AI-forward technology companies where operational rigor and talent density are critical
- Demonstrated success in building and retaining high-performing recruiting teams
- Experience designing AI-enabled recruiting systems and sourcing strategies
- Strong understanding of where exceptional technical and executive talent resides and how to win them in competitive markets
- Experience assessing and integrating talent in M&A environments
- Strong track record managing retained and contingency search firms
- Systems-oriented operator who builds durable, scalable processes and brings a strong point of view on AI strategy
- Clear, decisive, and accountable
- Data-driven and outcome-focused
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity while creating structure
- Able to influence senior stakeholders with clarity and conviction
- Holds a high talent bar and defends it with consistency
- Operates with urgency while maintaining discipline
What the job involves
- This is an opportunity to build the Talent Acquisition engine that enables Function to operate as a world-class organization
- You will take the TA function from 0 to 1 and then scale it from 1 to n, architecting a disciplined, AI-enabled system that consistently attracts and hires exceptional, high-leverage talent
- This is not a requisition-filling role. It is a systems-building role. You will design the standards, infrastructure, and operating rhythm that ensure we build a world-class team at scale
- Reporting to the SVP of People, you will partner closely with executive leadership to align hiring strategy with business priorities and long-term ambition
- Design and stand up a modern, AI-enabled Talent Acquisition function from first principles
- Own the end-to-end recruiting lifecycle with clear accountability and performance metrics
- Architect scalable systems, structured interview frameworks, and data dashboards
- Implement AI-driven sourcing and workflow automation to increase signal, speed, and precision
- Establish a recruiting culture grounded in urgency, rigor, and quality over volume
- Build and lead a high-performing TA team capable of supporting sustained hypergrowth
- Develop repeatable hiring engines that scale from hundreds of employees to pre-IPO and beyond
- Partner with executives on workforce planning tied directly to strategic priorities
- Create structured calibration processes that ensure consistency and protect hiring standards
- Develop forward-looking talent strategies to support future international expansion
- Define what exceptional performance looks like across technical, business, and leadership roles
- Establish structured evaluation criteria that reflect the level of talent required to win
- Ensure every hire meaningfully elevates the capability of the organization
- Personally lead and close mission-critical and senior-level searches when needed
- Equip hiring managers with rigorous assessment tools and clear decision frameworks
- Maintain uncompromising talent standards, even under aggressive growth pressure
- Track and measure quality of hire and continuously refine selection practices
- Position recruiting as a strategic advantage for the company
- Build and manage high-leverage relationships with retained and contingent search partners
- Advise senior leadership on talent market dynamics and competitive positioning
- Partner cross-functionally to assess and integrate talent during acquisitions
Our take
With the predominant model of healthcare being routine checkups and care for severe discomfort, chronic disease and health disparity are on the rise in the US. Function Health is a company that promotes a continuous mode of healthcare by removing barriers to lab testing.
Founded by former employees at Google Research, Meta, Fitbit and Tonal, Function Health provides subscribers with new ways to manage their health, opting for preventative measures rather than treatment. It does this by providing members with all-in-one lab testing, with more than 100 different tests available. It quantifies results and insights in an accessible and actionable manner, making caring for your health easier to manage.
Having only come out of stealth in 2023, it's impressive to see Function already secure a substantial Series B round and a 50,000-plus membership base. Its disruptive model of preventative healthcare is clearly turning heads, and it will use its fresh funding to scale its platform to a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$298m
SERIES B
Jun 2024
$53m
SERIES A
Total funding: $354m
Company benefits
- Choose your own holidays
- 401k Match
- Health Insurance
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Pranitha Patil
(Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer)Previously studied a Masters in Design Engineering at Harvard. Worked as a Health Strategy Engagement Manager at Accenture and was a Teaching Fellow at Deshpande Foundation.
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