Founding People Lead

The role

The Founding People Lead will build the People function from the ground up. You will work with the CEO and leadership team on talent, organizational development, and People Operations.

What you will do

• Define roles, reporting lines, and decision-making ownership through org design.
• Partner with leaders on hiring plans, role definitions, and succession.
• Own and oversee the recruiting engine and manage recruiting partners.
• Align hiring with budget and business priorities with finance.
• Build compensation frameworks.
• Own the employee lifecycle including onboarding, offboarding, benefits, HR systems, and compliance.
• Build essential policies, processes, and infrastructure.
• Design and launch the first performance review process.
• Shape practices for employee engagement, internal communications, and company-wide initiatives.

Required qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience in Recruiting, People Operations, HR, or a related function, at a high-growth startup.
• Demonstrated experience owning, building and driving recruiting processes, partnering with hiring managers, and developing talent strategies in a scaling organization.
• Experience building or scaling People processes and infrastructure in an early-stage or fast-growing company.
• Strong understanding of People operations, employee relations, benefits, and employment compliance.
• Extremely high ownership, judgment, discretion, and attention to detail.
• An exceptional communicator who is comfortable working directly with senior executives and employees at all levels.
• Comfortable balancing strategic initiatives with hands-on execution.
• Thrive in fast-moving environments with high expectations and significant responsibility.
• Comfortable being hybrid in our NYC office 3 days/week.

Benefits

• Flexible working environment (3 in-office days per week in New York).
• Unlimited PTO
• 9 company holidays
• Direct mentorship and growth opportunities with senior leadership

About the company

Conduit Health is a vertically integrated, AI-powered platform for post-acute care. It unites ordering, telehealth, prescriptions, insurance, and fulfillment into one experience.