What are the responsibilities and job description for the VP, Talent Acquisition position at Hippocratic AI?
About The Company
Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health. The company was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA. Hippocratic AI has received a total of $278 million in funding and is backed by leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems.
About The Role
As Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Hippocratic.Ai, you will drive the recruiting function and strategy. You’ll lead a team of recruiting professionals focused on building scalable systems, enabling high-performance recruiting, and aligning headcount planning with Hippocratic.Ai’s business growth.
In close partnership with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, you will lead core areas including recruiting enablement, headcount governance, capacity planning, talent marketing, candidate experience, analytics, and systems infrastructure. Your mission: enable predictable, high-quality hiring at scale—fueling the Company’s continued success.
What You’ll Achieve
Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health. The company was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA. Hippocratic AI has received a total of $278 million in funding and is backed by leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems.
About The Role
As Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Hippocratic.Ai, you will drive the recruiting function and strategy. You’ll lead a team of recruiting professionals focused on building scalable systems, enabling high-performance recruiting, and aligning headcount planning with Hippocratic.Ai’s business growth.
In close partnership with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, you will lead core areas including recruiting enablement, headcount governance, capacity planning, talent marketing, candidate experience, analytics, and systems infrastructure. Your mission: enable predictable, high-quality hiring at scale—fueling the Company’s continued success.
What You’ll Achieve
- Partner with Hippocratics’s executive and People leadership to understand business priorities and define a long-term, scalable talent acquisition strategy that enables rapid growth while maintaining bar-raising quality.
- Develop and drive a TA operations roadmap—inclusive of headcount planning, strategy alignment, tools, and infrastructure—to ensure we meet hiring goals efficiently and equitably.
- Build and refine TA capacity models to inform resource planning, allocation, and recruiter productivity benchmarks across Hippocratic.AI’s global functions.
- Lead data-informed decision-making: surface actionable recruiting insights, performance metrics, and trend analyses to unblock bottlenecks and drive process excellence.
- Oversee Hippocratic.AI’s talent marketing and employer brand strategy, enhancing visibility, candidate engagement, and inbound pipeline quality.
- Guide the evolution of our candidate experience and coordination (Candidate Care) operations—ensuring seamless, inclusive interactions for every candidate and hiring team.
- Establish a repeatable and robust interview infrastructure, with a focus on fairness, consistency, and effectiveness.
- Drive operational rigor and scalable practices across recruiting programs, systems (e.g., Ashby), and enablement.
- 15 years in Talent Acquisition, with 5 years of experience leading global TA operations and strategy.
- Deep expertise in scaling recruiting infrastructure in high-growth, fast-paced environments (ideally in SaaS or developer tooling).
- Proven track record partnering with senior executives and business leaders on talent strategy, workforce planning, and organizational design.
- Highly analytical and metrics-driven, with comfort working across tools and systems like Ashby.
- Strong background in change management—you know how to scale thoughtfully, evolve systems, and inspire adoption across teams.
- Recognized as a builder and coach: you lead with empathy, empower your teams, and create a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Business-first mindset: you see talent as a strategic lever for growth and understand how your function contributes to Hippocratic.AI’s broader success.