Contract Recruiter

Accountabilities: Manage full-cycle recruitment: Own the complete hiring process across multiple functions, from role intake and sourcing to candidate screening, interview management, offer negotiation, and closing. Build strong talent pipelines: Develop and maintain a qualified candidate pipeline across the United States and Canada to meet current hiring priorities and future workforce needs. Lead sourcing and outreach: Identify prospective candidates, conduct targeted outreach, manage job postings, and implement screening strategies to attract and engage suitable talent. Partner with leadership and hiring managers: Collaborate closely with company leadership to understand hiring needs, define role requirements, prioritize searches, and deliver recruitment outcomes. Improve interview quality: Train and coach hiring managers, align interviewers on evaluation criteria, strengthen interview practices, and maintain high standards throughout candidate assessment. Maintain accurate recruitment records: Keep the talent database organized and up to date, tracking candidate qualifications, availability, and relevant recruitment information. Monitor recruitment performance: Provide weekly updates on pipeline health, time-to-fill, hiring progress, and performance against recruitment goals. Optimize hiring processes: Identify opportunities to improve sourcing, screening, interviewing, and recruitment operations, implementing practical solutions that increase efficiency and quality. Deliver results quickly: Adapt to changing priorities, learn the business rapidly, and independently manage recruitment activities in a high-growth environment. Support long-term talent strategy: Help establish consistent, scalable hiring practices that support organizational expansion and strengthen the overall candidate experience. Requirements: Recruitment experience: Two to seven years of experience in talent acquisition, recruitment, human resources, or a related field, with a demonstrated ability to fill challenging roles. Full-cycle recruiting expertise: Proven experience independently managing searches from intake and sourcing through screening, interview design, offer negotiation, and successful close. This role requires hands-on recruitment ownership rather than coordination or top-of-funnel sourcing alone. North American hiring knowledge: Experience recruiting in the United States and/or Canada, with an understanding of regional talent markets, compensation expectations, and candidate preferences. Ability to ramp up quickly: Confidence joining a new organization, learning its business and culture, and delivering measurable results within the first few weeks of a contract. Excellent communication skills: Strong verbal and written communication, with the ability to engage candidates effectively, advise hiring managers, and manage sensitive recruitment conversations. Operational excellence: High productivity, strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple searches without compromising quality. Strong judgment and ownership: Ability to prioritize effectively, solve problems independently, manage ambiguity, and take responsibility for recruitment outcomes. Process improvement mindset: Experience identifying inefficiencies and developing creative, structured approaches to improve recruitment workflows and hiring operations. Adaptability in a startup environment: Comfort working in a fast-paced organization with evolving priorities, high autonomy, and a strong focus on execution. Interest in healthcare innovation: Motivation to contribute to an organization working to improve healthcare delivery, accessibility, and patient outcomes. Commitment to the engagement: Willingness to dedicate full-time professional focus to this contract role. Experience recruiting within healthcare or another regulated industry is an advantage. Benefits: Competitive compensation: A highly competitive salary is offered, although the exact compensation range is not specified in the job description. Initial contract duration: Six-month contract, with the possibility of extension or conversion to a full-time Talent Partner position based on performance, fit, and business needs. Fully remote work: Work remotely with flexibility in how you organize your working environment. Full-time schedule: Approximately 40 hours per week, with core availability during Eastern business hours. Direct leadership partnership: Work closely with company leadership and influence hiring decisions, recruitment strategy, and internal processes. Meaningful mission: Contribute to healthcare innovation by helping build the team behind solutions designed to improve patient care and affordability. Autonomy and ownership: Take responsibility for full-cycle recruiting and make a tangible impact on hiring outcomes in a fast-growing organization. Professional growth: Opportunity to strengthen strategic talent acquisition skills and potentially transition into a permanent Talent Partner role.