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Founding People Lead

Conduit Health - New York, NY, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-21

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Conduit Health is transforming post-acute care by building the first vertically integrated, AI-powered platform that unites ordering, telehealth, prescriptions, insurance, and fulfillment for medical equipment and supplies delivery to patients' homes. The company enables case managers and providers to approve patient requests in seconds rather than weeks. You will be the Founding People Lead, building the People function from the ground up as the company scales. Working directly with the CEO and leadership team, you will own all aspects of talent, organizational development, and People Operations. Key responsibilities include: - Organizational Design: Partner with leadership to define roles, reporting lines, and decision-making ownership; build scalable organizational structures. - Talent Strategy & Recruiting: Develop hiring plans and role definitions; oversee the recruiting engine including internal and external partners; personally drive critical searches. - Headcount & Workforce Planning: Align hiring with budget and business priorities; build fair, competitive, and sustainable compensation frameworks. - People Operations & Infrastructure: Own the full employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, benefits, HR systems, compliance); build policies and processes to support scaling. - Performance Management: Design and launch the first performance review process, including goal-setting, feedback cycles, and career leveling. - Culture & Engagement: Shape practices that preserve company culture as you scale, including employee engagement, internal communications, and company-wide initiatives. This is a high-agency, hands-on role in a fast-moving environment where you will have outsized impact on the people, culture, and operating system of the company. Requirements: - 3–7 years of experience in Recruiting, People Operations, HR, or related function at a high-growth startup. - Demonstrated experience owning and building 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. - Exceptional communicator comfortable working directly with senior executives and employees at all levels. - Ability to balance strategic initiatives with hands-on execution. - Thrive in fast-moving environments with high expectations and significant responsibility. - Comfortable with hybrid work: 3 days/week in NYC office.

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