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# Founding Technical Recruiter at Vitalize

- **Company:** Vitalize
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vitalize/cab9879b-9fe9-495b-8caa-78b78998d086

## Job description

## ABOUT VITALIZE:

## OUR VISION: UNLOCK HEALTHCARE'S FULL CAPACITY

Hospitals run on three things: their people, their beds, and their supplies… and all are still managed with spreadsheets, phone calls, and gut instinct. Vitalize is building the system that runs it all intelligently, starting with labor — the biggest cost (nearly 60% of a hospital's P&L) and the hardest operational problem.

The impact is real: we save hospitals millions in unnecessary labor spend, give clinical leaders back 10–20 hours every week, and are often the reason staff and leaders stay. This isn't a nice-to-have: our customers pay 5–15x more than legacy incumbents because Vitalize is mission-critical software their hospitals rely on every single minute.

We've raised over $32M from top investors, and even our own customers.

## OUR VALUES

We hire and grow everyone against the same four values. Each one comes from a real Vitalize story—interview with us to hear them!

🚗 Push the Car. Step in regardless of role. We help wherever we're needed, own problems end to end, and don't stay in our lane. People can count on us.

🏥 Premier 1K. We show up for our customers, always. Nearly everyone visits a customer site in their first month, and customer feedback informs everything we do.

🗣️ Run Towards the Ugly. Name the ugliest truth first, then propose the fix. Candor over comfort—we call out what's broken and never get complacent.

💡 Think Bigger Fridays. See the gap, fill it—no permission required. Every decision is an experiment: we run it, let the results decide, and drive real impact from day one.

Read more about our founder's thoughts on building a team: https://vitalize.care/blog/our-thoughts-on-building-a-team

## ABOUT VITALIZE'S TALENT TEAM

The Talent Team will determine how quickly Vitalize scales and how much impact we can have on healthcare. Every great hire helps us deploy faster, build better products, serve more hospitals, and ultimately improve the way care is delivered.

We're building what we believe will become one of the best talent teams in the world. We don't believe great recruiting starts with a job description, it starts with deeply understanding our customers, the problems we're solving, and the teams we're building. Our recruiters sit in on customer calls, travel to customer sites, partner closely with hiring teams, and immerse themselves in the business so they can recruit with credibility. As one of our founding recruiters, you'll help build our talent function from the ground up and shape how Vitalize hires for years to come.

## THE ROLE

We're looking a founding Technical Recruiter to build the engineering, product, and design teams that will define Vitalize's future.

You'll partner directly with our engineering and product leadership to identify, attract, and close exceptional technical talent. This isn't about filling open req, it's about building one of the highest-performing technical organizations in healthcare technology.

You know what the top 1% of technical talent looks like. You understand how exceptional engineers think, where they spend their time, and how to build relationships that ultimately turn into hires. You believe recruiting is a competitive advantage, not an administrative function and you know how to find and convince world-class talent to join an ambitious mission.

This is a builder role. You'll help shape how we recruit technical talent at Vitalize from sourcing strategy and interview design to talent branding and recruiting systems that scale with the company.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build our technical talent function from zero to-own full-cycle recruiting across Engineering, Product, and Design while acting as the guardian of Vitalize's technical hiring bar.
- Partner deeply with engineering leaders to understand what exceptional talent looks like for each role.
- Build world-class talent pipelines through thoughtful sourcing, market mapping, referrals, networking, and long-term relationship building.
- Develop a deep understanding of the technical talent landscape. You know where exceptional engineers spend their time, how to earn their attention, and how to build relationships long before there's an open role.
- Become an expert in the teams you support. Attend engineering planning meetings, product reviews, and customer conversations to understand the problems we're solving so you can recruit with credibility.
- Continuously improve how we hire. You're a natural tinkerer who loves testing sourcing strategies, recruiting technology, interview design, and hiring processes to make recruiting more effective every week.
- Raise the quality of our hiring by influencing interview decisions, challenging assumptions, and ensuring every hire strengthens the organization.

## WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience in high-growth startups or technology companies.
- A track record of hiring exceptional engineering, product, and design talent.
- An exceptional eye for technical talent. You know what top 1% engineers, product managers, and designers look like, and you can assess talent well before the interview process confirms it.
- Elite sourcing ability. You understand that the best technical talent rarely applies inbound. You know where exceptional people come from, build thoughtful and aggressive sourcing strategies, and consistently identify, engage, and close difficult-to-reach candidates.
- Strong technical curiosity. You don't need to be an engineer, but you enjoy learning how great engineering organizations operate and can credibly engage technical candidates and hiring managers.
- Executive-level partnership. You're comfortable partnering with founders and engineering leaders, challenging hiring decisions when appropriate, and protecting a consistently high hiring bar.
- A builder's mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, improve systems without being asked, and create recruiting processes that scale as the company grows.
- High agency. You don't wait for direction. You identify bottlenecks, propose solutions, and proactively move searches forward.
- Curiosity about the business. You want to deeply understand our customers, our product, and the technical problems we're solving because you know great recruiting starts with great understanding.

## BENEFITS

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO
- Unlimited travel budget to visit customer sites
- Bi-annual company off-sites
- Free meals in-office
- $5,000 relocation bonus
- Desk setup reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
- Monthly gym/wellness stipend

## About Vitalize

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vitalize provides an AI-powered platform that unifies staffing, scheduling, flow, and capacity for health systems, replacing manual processes with proactive, optimized operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021 (per LinkedIn) / 2023 (per Y Combinator batch)
- **Founders**: Sanketh Andhavarapu (Co-Founder & CPO), Veeraj Shah (Co-Founder & CEO), Nikhil D'Souza (Co-Founder & CTO, departed April 2026)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare operations technology (staffing, scheduling, workforce management)
- **Target customers**: B2B – health systems, hospitals, acute, procedural, and ambulatory care organizations
- **Mission**: Build a world where hospital operations are safe, autonomous, fair, and cost-effective

## Products & Services
- **AI-Powered Scheduling**: Automates shift creation and filling, reducing manual scheduling time by ~70%.
- **Predictive Analytics**: Proactive insights on workforce strategy, volume, acuity, and cost to optimize staffing decisions.
- **Flow and Capacity Optimization**: Integrates volume, acuity, cost, skills, and patient flow into every staffing decision.
- **Command Center for Staffing Offices**: Centralized dashboard enabling optimal decisions while removing manual processes and subjectivity.
- **Integrations**: Connects with existing HR, payroll, T&A, and EMR systems so teams can see value without changing workflows.

All offerings are delivered as a SaaS platform with deep change management support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – seed rounds in 2022 (1 investor) and April 2023 (8 investors, led by Y Combinator); amount not publicly stated.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead), Tom Blomfield (primary YC partner), and other top healthcare/technology investors. Customers include MemorialCare and Hendrick Health.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Grew 8× in under 18 months
  - Deployed across dozens of hospitals, used by tens of thousands of clinical staff
  - Headcount grew 168% YoY to ~30 employees (as of mid-2026)
  - Operating in 5 countries (US, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa)
  - Active job postings: 9 (as of July 2026), with monthly posting growth of +12.5%

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** covering staffing, scheduling, flow, and capacity – not a point solution.
- **On-site change management** – team embeds with customers from day one to drive adoption and ROI.
- **Deep integrations** with existing hospital systems (HR, payroll, EMR) minimize disruption.
- **Predictive AI** that proactively identifies gaps and recommends best-fit staff, reducing premium shift use and FTE leakage.
- **Demonstrated ROI** within 90 days, with customer testimonials citing massive improvements in productivity and labor cost reduction.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding across acute, procedural, and ambulatory care within health systems.
- Deepen integrations and predictive capabilities to further automate labor operations.
- Scale the customer base and headcount, particularly in engineering, product, and deployment roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Customer-obsession to the extreme – team members have moved on-site to live at customer sites and taken flights with 2 hours’ notice to visit users.
- **Autonomy**: “Everyone has unusual freedom to take initiative” – ownership of problems end-to-end, no micromanagement.
- **Values**: Move fast (decide, act, iterate), relentless curiosity, challenge the status quo, unorthodox thinking.
- **Equity**: Everyone is an owner.
- **Work policy**: Remote US allowed (per YC job postings), with HQ in San Francisco. Many roles require on-site presence at customer hospitals.
- **Engineering culture**: Senior Full-Stack Engineer and Senior Product Engineer roles listed with competitive salary ranges ($180K–$260K + equity). Emphasis on building modern technology to replace paper-based hospital operations.

## Sources
1. [vitalize.care](https://vitalize.care/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vitalize)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vitalize)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vitalizecare)

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