Lead Technical Recruiter, Ambience Healthcare
$170-220k
Plus equity
AI operating system for healthcare
Be an early applicant
AI operating system for healthcare
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-220k
Plus equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To supercharge clinicians with breakthrough generative AI technology.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, and combines technical fluency with people leadership to help scale a high-performing technical organization
- 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, preferably ****5+ years in high-growth startup environments, with a track record of hiring across backend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, security, and ML
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including at least 2 years formal management and effectively influencing executive stakeholders
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering and machine learning domains, enabling credible and high-signal technical assessments
- Able to communicate fluently with engineers and technical leaders to align on requirements, evaluate fit, and drive sound hiring decisions
- Adept at building recruiting systems, processes, documentation, and workflows from the ground up in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments
- Brings a bias toward action—experimenting, iterating, and refining rapidly based on data and results
- Skilled at storytelling and selling top talent on Ambience’s mission, technical roadmap, and long-term opportunities
- Effective at influencing executives, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and presenting clear, data-backed recommendations
- Deep commitment to fairness, inclusion, and transparency throughout every stage of the hiring process
- Creates thoughtful, trust-building interactions that leave candidates with an exceptional impression of Ambience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a mission-driven Lead Technical Recruiter to build and scale Ambience’s technical hiring engine
- In this hybrid hands-on and managerial role, you’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to drive headcount planning, role scoping, and allocation across software, ML, platform, infrastructure, and security
- You’ll own end-to-end recruiting—designing high-signal processes, elevating candidate experience, and executing closing strategies that consistently attract world-class technical talent
- You’ll also mentor and coach hiring managers, acting as a strategic advisor, strengthen interviewing capabilities, and bring operational rigor and data-driven decision-making to our talent systems
- Own end-to-end recruitment for high-priority technical roles across Engineering and Machine Learning, including headcount management, role allocation, prioritization, and overall talent strategy
- Partner closely with hiring managers to align on ideal candidate profiles, define MOCs, and drive clarity in role scoping—ensuring high-signal, efficient processes that deliver the right hiring outcomes
- Design scalable, repeatable recruiting processes—including structured interviews, events, rubrics, scorecards, and interviewer enablement programs
- Implement tooling, automations, and workflows in Ashby to increase speed, quality, and signal across the hiring funnel
- Collaborate with sourcers and hiring managers to build high-impact sourcing strategies across channels—including AI tools, referrals, communities, social platforms, outbound programs, event-based hiring, and creative networking
- Create compelling content, engagement materials, and activation campaigns, supported by talent maps and market insights that inform workforce planning and ensure pipeline health
- Lead candidate communication with thoughtful, transparent, and personalized touchpoints that uphold a best-in-class experience
- Develop tailored closing strategies that effectively communicate Ambience’s mission, technical challenges, and long-term career trajectory
- Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, product, and executive leaders on hiring strategy, headcount planning, and organizational design
- Provide data-driven insights on pipeline health, talent trends, and process improvements—delivering clear executive summaries and recommendations
Our take
Healthcare providers often find themselves overwhelmed by administrative duties like form filing and record coding, detracting from their primary focus on patient care. While these tasks are essential for billing and compliance, they are time-consuming and prone to errors.
In response to this challenge, Ambience Healthcare offers an AI-powered "operating system" designed specifically for healthcare organizations. Its suite of tools automates documentation, coding, and referrals, streamlining workflows for clinicians while enhancing accuracy.
With substantial funding, the company is expanding its business in the US and hopes top potentially include diagnosis in the future. While facing competition from startups like Corti and Babla, Ambience is well-positioned with strong investor backing and a clear focus.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$243m
SERIES C
Feb 2024
$70m
SERIES B
Total funding: $343m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nikhil Buduma
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Previously co-founded Lean On Me Peer Support where they served as a Board Member for over 8 years and Remedy Health where they served as the Chief Scientist for almost 4 years.
Michael Ng
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Co-Founder and COO of Remedy Health. Was a Product Management MBA Intern at Sumo Logic, and Private Equity Associate at Calera Capital.
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