Head of People & Talent

Nourish is on a mission to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well. More than half of Americans have a chronic condition related to what they eat, and poor nutrition is the number one driver of preventable death.

Nourish is addressing this healthcare crisis by helping people eat better, more easily, with our food as medicine platform. We connect people with a telehealth Registered Dietitian, food, and mobile app to improve their nutrition, all covered by health insurance. The Nourish mobile app provides a comprehensive approach to wellness through personalized visits with Registered Dietitians, medically-tailored meal delivery, health progress tracking, personalized content, meal logging, recipes / meal planning, AI chat, and more.

We launched two years ago and already have thousands of dietitians and hundreds of thousands of patients on the platform. Our patients span a wide range of nutrition-related conditions including diabetes, eating disorders, kidney disease, GI conditions, cancer, obesity / weight management, cardiovascular disease, and more. We are live in all 50 states.

We are growing quickly, have partnered with national health insurance companies and provider groups, and have raised over $44M from top-tier VCs including Index Ventures, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, Y Combinator, and Box Group, amongst others. Our angel investors include world-class healthcare founders from Oscar, Rightway Health, Headway, Spring Health, and Alto Pharmacy, as well as soccer star Alex Morgan and the founders from Olipop and Notion.

Learn more about us in TechCrunch here and read about our recent Series A here.

About the Role

We are looking for a People leader serving as a strategic partner to our leadership team, responsible for developing the people strategy and processes that support our most important asset: our employees. You’ll lead all talent strategy, including employee experience, compliance, performance management, compensation, learning and development, and organizational design. We are looking for a strategic problem solver to work with us and enable us to move faster as we grow the team more than 2x in 2025.

This role reports directly to our co-founder / CEO. You will manage our existing people & talent team members. This role is full-time and open to NYC or remote candidates (NYC strongly preferred).

Key Responsibilities:

• Talent Acquisition: Own the end-to-end recruitment process, drive employer branding, and ensure an exceptional candidate experience.
• Onboarding & Training: Develop a seamless onboarding process and support ongoing learning and development.
• Performance Management: Lead initiatives for continuous feedback, managing out low performers when necessary.
• Culture & Engagement: Drive initiatives that foster a positive, high-energy culture aligned with our core values.
• People Operations: Oversee compliance, payroll, and benefits administration.
• Compensation & Org Design: Implement competitive comp structures and contribute to effective org design as we scale. 
• Serve as a trusted advisor on the executive team and key thought leader on People & Talent matters. 
• Build credible relationships at all levels of organization and maintain an in-depth understanding of the core short and long term objectives of the business to support informed people strategies. 

You’ll love this role if:

• You have progressive experience in People and Talent roles at high-growth startups, ideally from our current stage through continued scaling. We are open to non-traditional backgrounds for high-caliber people.
• You are talent-oriented: Exceptional recruiting and people experience; you’re a talent magnet who knows how to attract, assess, and onboard the best. You know that everything is downstream of attracting world-class people. You know how to run a data-driven recruiting f
• You are strategic but also a doer: Comfortable in the details, capable of rolling up your sleeves to execute on high-impact initiatives while also contributing to strategic discussions.
• You are operationally strong: Proactive problem-solver with a “builder” mentality who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• You are culturally aligned: Charismatic, high-energy, and values-driven, with strong emotional intelligence and business sense. You know how to make hard decisions when necessary on things like performance management. You understand that people and talent is in service of our business goals.
• You are an adaptable problem solver: flexible to whatever the business needs, proactive problem solving, ability to act as a player/coach.
• You are a great manager: you are excited to manage our people and talent teams.

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