Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Handspring Health is a virtual mental health clinic dedicated to making quality mental healthcare accessible to children, young adults, and families. They are seeking a Director of Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Operations to build a recruiting engine that hires therapists across multiple states while ensuring quality and speed in the hiring process.
Responsibilities
- Own the hiring function. Lead recruiting for clinical roles against monthly therapist hiring targets, and manage and grow the recruiting team as volume increases
- Build the recruiting infrastructure. Stand up recruiting tech stack and workflows (ATS, sourcing, scheduling, reporting) and repeatable playbooks for sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offers
- Make hiring measurable. Build the analytics layer and a single source of truth for pipeline health, funnel conversion, source effectiveness, cost-per-hire, and recruiter performance; tie hiring outcomes to company growth goals
- Plan capacity. Translate the growth plan into a hiring plan, align pipeline with patient demand, and report how much new patient volume we can absorb
- Raise candidate quality. Partner with the clinical team to define what a qualified candidate looks like, review pipeline together, and sharpen the sourcing strategy
- Build the brand. Make Handspring the employer of choice for therapists, so a growing share of hires come to us inbound
Skills
- 7+ years in talent acquisition, including building and scaling a recruiting function from scratch, not just inheriting one
- You've managed recruiters and led a team to consistently hit hiring targets
- Strong analytical and operational mindset; you think in funnels, conversion rates, and capacity models
- Hands-on outbound operator: you've used emerging tech and tools to identify qualified candidates, built multitouch cadences to reach them, and written personalized outreach messages that get responses
- Comfortable operating with limited resources and building in ambiguity
- You must be based in the United States and have U.S. work authorization
- Healthcare recruiting experience (especially clinical or therapist hiring) and startup experience strongly preferred
Benefits
Company Overview
Handspring provides quality and evidence-based mental healthcare for children. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.handspringhealth.com.