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Founding People and Talent Leader (backed by Y Combinator, $5M+ ARR, $23M+ raised)

Legion Health· People / Talent / Recruiting / People Operations
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San Francisco$170k - $260kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding leadership role to build Legion Health's People and Talent function, owning the employee lifecycle end-to-end in-person in San Francisco, with visa sponsorship and direct collaboration with the founders.

Responsibilities

  • Own Legion’s company-wide talent plan: translate business priorities, product roadmaps, clinical expansion, and organizational constraints into a sequenced hiring plan with clear role priorities, scorecards, timelines, and accountable hiring managers.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of progressively responsible experience spanning recruiting, talent leadership, People Operations, HR, or organizational leadership at high-growth technology companies.
  • Experience serving as the first, early, or senior-most People and Talent hire at a venture-backed startup—ideally while scaling from approximately 25–50 employees to 100–150+.
  • Demonstrated success personally sourcing, assessing, and closing exceptional passive candidates for difficult roles.
  • Strong technical-recruiting ability across AI, engineering, data, and product, plus versatility to recruit consumer growth, operations, clinical leadership, finance, and executive talent.
  • Evidence that hires became high-performing, durable members of the organization.
  • Experience building recruiting infrastructure from zero or rebuilding an inconsistent system.
  • Hands-on People Operations experience across payroll, benefits, HRIS, employee records, equity administration, onboarding, offboarding, leaves, policies, vendor management, and compliance.
  • Knowledge of California and multi-state employment practices; ability to identify when specialized counsel is required.
  • Experience managing sensitive employee-relations matters, investigations, performance improvement, terminations, accommodations, organizational changes, and other high-stakes situations.
  • Experience designing or operating compensation bands, leveling, performance reviews, promotion processes, talent reviews, manager training, and workforce planning.
  • Excellent judgment under ambiguity; strong analytical fluency; comfortable with Ashby, Rippling, Gusto, Justworks, Deel, Carta, Pave, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace, and AI tools.

Skills

Required:Talent planningFull-cycle recruitingOutreach & sourcingHiring standards & interview designNegotiation & closing

Benefits

  • In-person retreats, company events, meal stipends, AI tooling, and professional-development support.
  • Time Off: Flexible, unlimited vacation policy
  • Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Relocation: Support for moving to San Francisco
  • US Visa Sponsorship: Available for exceptional candidates
  • Work Setup: In person in San Francisco; this role owns a meaningful part of Legion’s in-person employee experience
  • Growth Opportunities: Potential to advance to VP of People and Talent, Head of People, or other executive roles
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Legion Health

AI-native psychiatry, built for scale and covered by insurance

Legion Health is a high-quality, AI-enabled psychiatry network where patients receive care from a provider who takes their insurance. We use LLMs and AI agents to improve care quality, streamline operations, enhance patient communications, and more.

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