Leadership Recruiter, Abridge
$174-249k
Offers Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
Be an early applicant
Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$174-249k
Offers Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To power a deeper understanding in healthcare.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of recruiting experience, with 5+ years leading executive searches in tech (in-house, at a search firm, or both)
- A track record of closing VP+ hires in Engineering, AI/ML, Product, or Design
- Credibility with CEOs and executive teams, and comfort pushing back with data
- Strong judgment on leadership talent and the ability to give candid, evidence-based feedback
- Discretion with confidential searches
- Experience negotiating offers and equity for senior roles
What the job involves
- We're hiring an Leadership Recruiter, Tech to lead searches for our most critical technology, product, and design leaders. You'll own VP, Head-of, and Director-level searches in Engineering, AI/Research, Product, and Design. You'll work directly with our CTO and VP, Product to shape how Abridge hires leaders as we scale
- This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports. You'll report to to the leader of Exec Recruiting
- Run confidential, high-stakes searches for leaders in Engineering, AI/Research, Product, and Design
- Partner with executives to define role scope, success criteria, and interview panels
- Build your own pipeline through direct sourcing, networks, and referrals
- Work with external search firms when it makes sense, and decide when to use them
- Assess leadership strength, including scope, judgment, and how someone builds teams
- Guide candidates through the process and close them with a compelling story about our mission, team, and growth
- Structure and negotiate senior offers with Recruiting leadership and Finance
- Track market intelligence on talent, compensation, and competitors, and share it with leadership
- Improve our executive hiring process, scorecards, and candidate experience
- Use data to report on search progress and pipeline health
Our take
Summarising key elements of healthcare conversations is crucial for both physicians and patients. Medical scribes, though effective, are costly, and the healthcare system faces funding and staffing crises. This has created a demand for more efficient notetaking solutions.
This is where Abridge comes in; it has developed a HIPAA-compliant AI platform that transcribes, structures, summarises, and provides insights from audio or transcripts of medical conversations. It claims to work across all specialities and offers patient-friendly summaries in easy-to-understand language.
Abridge aims to alleviate pressure on the healthcare system from the patient's perspective, a unique approach among healthtech startups. While companies like Inovia, DOUB, and DeepScribe focus on assisting physicians with medical transcription AI, they lack Abridge's patient-centric features, which are valuable in enhancing the patient experience. Its unique focus, then, is part of the reason why it enjoyed two impressive rounds of funding in 2025 alone.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2025
$300m
SERIES E
Feb 2025
$250m
SERIES D
Total funding: $757.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO, plus 12 national holidays
- 16 weeks paid parental leave, for all employees
- Flexible working hours — we care more about what you accomplish than what specific hours you’re working
- Remote work environment
- Equity for all new employees
- Generous equipment budget for your home office setup ($1600)
- Opportunity to work and grow with talented individuals, and have ownership and impact at a high growth startup
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shivdev Rao
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside their work as a practising Cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, they also served as Physician Advisor in Residence and ultimately EVP at UPMC Enterprises; co-founded DocDok; and worked as a co-architect on a healthcare project at the Kauffman Foundation.
Sandeep Konam
(Co-Founder & CTO)Completed an MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon, then served as Senior Product Manager at UPMC Enterprises. Has delivered guest lectures at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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