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Anterior is an AI-powered healthcare administration platform backed by Sequoia, NEA, and Neo, with advisors from DeepMind and Google AI. The company is transforming clinical workflows by automating administrative tasks so clinicians can focus on patient care.
As Head of People at a 40-person company scaling to 50+, you'll build the People function from the ground up—not inherit an existing program. This is a foundational role combining people operations, talent development, and recruiting leadership.
Key responsibilities include:
**Build a Distinctive Company Culture**
- Design and run a growth and performance system with semi-annual reviews, 360° feedback, and development plans focused on growth rather than policing.
- Create coaching, feedback, and development practices that help strong people become distinctive.
- Own onboarding to get new hires productive in week one and maintain team cohesion as you scale.
- Establish compensation benchmarking and leveling to reward performance consistently.
- Partner with leadership on workforce planning and forecasting.
**Run Hiring with Leverage**
- Build visible engineering culture through events, hackathons, and thought leadership so top talent finds Anterior organically.
- Own the end-to-end hiring process: intake with managers, job descriptions, interviews, and assessments.
- Manage external recruiting partners as an operator—brief precisely, hold to performance, cut underperformers.
- Build always-on candidate pipelines using AI sourcing, referrals, communities, and events.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Engineering on employer brand.
- Implement ATS tooling, response-time SLAs, funnel metrics, and candidate experience improvements.
**What We're Looking For**
You're smart, pragmatic, and fast—untangling complex problems and prioritizing impact. You have high emotional intelligence and genuinely enjoy conversations with candidates and teammates. You're entrepreneurial and scrappy, comfortable building without a playbook. You have grit and follow-through for unglamorous work. You care deeply about people development and have some exposure to recruiting or HR—enough to spot strong candidates. You don't need to have run a full function; we bet on trajectory.
**This Isn't For You If**
You've spent your career in traditional HR and want a bigger HR seat, you're a pure recruiter, or you want a VP/C-level title with a team reporting to you immediately. This is a player-coach Head-of role where you do the work yourself.
You'll report to the VP of Operations, work directly with founders, and have coaches and mentors supporting you. The company values simplicity, strong foundations, and pragmatic execution.
