The Problem

Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. Schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder. Bipolar I. Treatment-resistant depression. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for.

What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. None of it has been built. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve.

We are developing all of it. The care, the science, the technology.

Who We Are

Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation delivering specialty outpatient care for people with severe mental illness through high-acuity, in-person clinics nationwide.

Our integrated model brings psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community support together under one roof. Leading health systems—including NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit—partner with us to expand this level of care.

Alongside care delivery, we are building the science and technology the field has long lacked—proprietary clinical protocols, novel measurement, and an AI-driven data platform designed for severe mental illness.

The impact: fewer hospitalizations, greater stability, and more people living meaningful lives in their communities.

The Team

We are clinicians, operators, technologists, and scientists who chose Amae because the problem is hard and the stakes are real. We are not interested in incremental improvements to a broken system—we are redefining it.

Our teams work cross-functionally because the work demands it. The psychiatrist informs the product roadmap. Engineers understand the clinical complexity their technology must solve. Researchers sit alongside the operators running the clinics their work measures.

Every function—finance, product, people, growth, technology—exists to serve one goal: better outcomes for the people we care for.

The Role

Amae Health is seeking a Head of Talent to lead and scale our recruiting function during a critical period of growth.

As we expand clinics across multiple markets and continue building our corporate teams, hiring exceptional talent—both clinical and operational—will be one of the most important determinants of our success.

Reporting to the VP of People, this role will own the recruiting function end-to-end: strategy, systems, team leadership, and execution.

 In this dual-impact role, you will analyze recruitment metrics to optimize our talent engine and directly execute full-cycle searches for our most critical roles. The right candidate is a builder who thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys designing recruiting systems from the ground up.

This role will also help lead innovation within the recruiting function, identifying opportunities to incorporate AI-enabled tools and automation to improve sourcing, screening, candidate engagement, and recruiting operations.

What You’ll Do

Build and Scale the Recruiting Function

• Own Amae’s recruiting strategy as we scale clinics and corporate teams across multiple markets.
• Partner with executive leadership to translate growth plans into clear hiring roadmaps.
• Design recruiting processes that are efficient, rigorous, and built to scale.

Lead and Develop the Recruiting Team

• Manage and mentor Amae’s recruiting team.
• Establish clear expectations, standard work, metrics, and operating rhythms.
• Create a strong partnership model between recruiters and hiring managers.

Own Critical Searches

• Personally recruit for senior or mission-critical roles when needed.
• Help close key hires and support recruiters on difficult searches.
• Ensure Amae maintains a high hiring bar while moving quickly.

Build a Clinical Hiring Engine

• Develop strategies to hire exceptional clinical talent across markets, including psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, and clinic leadership.
• Build relationships with training programs, professional networks, and healthcare communities.
• Partner closely with clinical leadership to ensure hiring quality and alignment.

Recruiting Operations and Infrastructure

• Improve recruiting workflows, systems, and tools.
• Own recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, pipeline health, offer acceptance, and quality of hire.
• Use data to continuously refine hiring strategy.
• Identify and implement AI-enabled tools and automation that make the recruiting function faster, smarter, and more scalable.

Employer Brand and Candidate Experience

• Position Amae as an employer of choice for mission-driven clinicians and operators.
• Ensure candidates experience a thoughtful, organized, and respectful hiring process.
• Help articulate why Amae is one of the most meaningful places to build a career in healthcare.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing recruiters.
• Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Experience hiring across multiple functions, ideally including healthcare or clinical roles.
• Proven ability to build recruiting systems and processes in scaling organizations.
• Strong operational instincts and a data-driven approach to recruiting.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve.
• Experience in applying AI and emerging technologies to improve recruiting workflows.
• Strong communicator who can partner effectively with candidates, hiring managers, and leadership.
• Passion for Amae’s mission.

Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting for healthcare but not required.
• Experience building recruiting functions in early-stage or scaling companies.

What We’re Building 

Most healthcare companies ask you to optimize an existing system. We’re building one that has never existed.

• A national care model designed for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health.
• Precision medicine for severe mental illness, using multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data to personalize treatment.
• A clinical operating system that integrates longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built tools into a single decision layer.
• New science and measurement frameworks to define what real outcomes look like in SMI—stability, functional improvement, and hospitalizations avoided.
• A health-system partnership model proving coordinated SMI care can work at scale.

If you want to maintain the status quo, this isn’t the place. If you want to build what doesn’t exist yet—and change how an entire population receives care—keep reading.

What We Value

We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It’s how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.

We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.

We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.

Your job isn’t done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don’t hide behind titles or org charts.

We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don’t do blame.

We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.

Compensation & Benefits 

Compensation includes a base salary of $135,000 - $195,000 (based on level,  experience & geography) plus equity ownership, giving you a meaningful stake in Amae's growth. Total compensation includes comprehensive medical/dental/vision, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and programs built around employee well-being. We’ll share specifics during the interview process.

Amae Health is building the care platform, the precision medicine, and the frontier science that severe mental illness has never had. If you want to be part of creating something this hard and this important, something that has never been done, we’d like to talk.

What We Value

We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It’s how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.

We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.

We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.

Your job isn’t done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don’t hide behind titles or org charts.

We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don’t do blame.

We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.