Founding Recruiter, Citizen Health
$170-200k
+ Equity Package
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Health data access & sharing platform
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Health data access & sharing platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-200k
+ Equity Package
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve the lives of 400+ million people navigating rate and complex conditions.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive in fast-paced, early-stage environments and are excited to build a recruiting function from the ground up
- With a track record of hiring across technical and go-to-market roles, you pair strategic thinking with hands-on execution – from sourcing and interviewing to data-driven process design
- You care deeply about people and culture, maintain a high bar for quality, and move quickly without sacrificing candidate experience
- Collaborative and resourceful, you partner closely with founders while confidently driving initiatives independently
- Above all, you’re motivated by the opportunity to help shape a team and mission that will transform consumer healthcare
- 7+ years of recruiting experience, with a track record of success in small, fast-growing companies
- Deep experience recruiting for technical, product, marketing, and data roles
- A builder – you love to create systems, optimize processes, and scale intentionally
- Strong strategic and operational mindset – you can see the big picture while managing the details
- Passionate about people and creating high-quality experiences for candidates and teammates alike
- Excellent communicator, collaborator, and relationship builder
- Interested in (or familiar with) the consumer healthcare space
What the job involves
- We’re hiring our first Founding Recruiter to build the foundation of Citizen’s talent engine and help shape an exceptional employee experience
- As the company’s first dedicated recruiting hire, you’ll own recruiting strategy and execution end-to-end – partnering with leadership to attract and hire exceptional talent across Engineering, Product, Growth Marketing, and other functions
- This is more than a typical recruiting role: you’ll design and scale the systems, processes, and employer brand that define how we hire, while laying the groundwork for future People/HR capabilities
- As we grow, you’ll also have the opportunity to stretch into adjacent areas such as performance management, employee benefits, and workplace culture – helping make Citizen a place where top talent thrives
- You’ll report directly to the COO and work closely with the founding team to shape the company’s trajectory from the ground up
- Own full-cycle recruiting, from sourcing and outreach to interviews, offers, and onboarding
- Develop and implement creative sourcing strategies to attract top talent, with an initial focus on engineering, product and growth marketing roles
- Build and manage robust recruiting pipelines and utilize modern recruiting tools (such as Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Gem) to source, engage, and manage candidates efficiently
- Create and refine a structured interview process that identifies exceptional candidates while enabling fair, consistent evaluation
- Leverage data-driven insights to optimize recruiting efforts, tracking key metrics such as time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, funnel conversion, and sourcing effectiveness, and provide regular updates on funnel health and time-to-hire
- Deliver a seamless candidate experience while coaching hiring managers on interviewing, calibration, and closing
- Develop and execute employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives to showcase Citizen’s mission and culture
- Bring early-stage startup or high-growth experience to anticipate scaling needs and adapt strategies as the company grows
- Stay informed on the AI/ML talent landscape to identify emerging talent pools and competitive trends
- Collaborate on workplace experience strategy as we move into our own office and build an intentional hybrid culture
Our take
Citizen Health is an AI-powered platform that gives individuals with rare and complex diseases access to their health data. By centralizing records like clinical data, genetic information and patient-reported outcomes, it helps patients make informed decisions, share insights with caregivers and connect with others facing similar conditions.
The platform also accelerates medical research by providing researchers with critical patient data, speeding up drug development and clinical trials. By empowering patients to share their experiences, Citizen Health helps advance personalized care and faster therapies for rare diseases.
Only founded in 2023, the company is already making waves, with financial backing from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). With CZI's support, Citizen Health aims to expand its platform, innovate further and accelerate research to improve the overall treatment of rare diseases.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2025
$30m
SERIES A
Nov 2024
$14.5m
SEED
Total funding: $44.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Company off-sites
- Work-from-anywhere 30 days of the year
- Unlimited PTO
- Potential for equity
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Farid Vij
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the President and General Manager of Patient Network and Data at Invitae. Prior to that, they co-founded Ciitizen where they served as the Chief Operating Officer.
Nasha Fitter
(Co-Founder & CBO)Co-founder and CEO at FOXG1Research. Previously VP at Invitae and Ciitizen. Also was founder and CEO of Schoolie (acquired by GreatSchools) and spent 6 years at Microsoft in a number of education related roles.
Daniel Wang
(CTO)Previously the Director of AI, ML and Pricing Engineering at Uber Freight. They also worked at Amazon as an Alexa Speech Recognition Model Engineer and co-founded Factory Method where they served as the CEO.
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