Director of Clinical Recruiting

About the Role

OpenLoop, a fast growing healthtech startup serving millions of patients a year, is looking for a Director of Clinical Recruitment to join our team remotely or at HQ in Des Moines, IA. In this critical role, you will be responsible for leading a team of clinical recruiters dedicated to sourcing, hiring, and onboarding healthcare providers across specialties and care models (1099, W2, synchronous/asynchronous). As a key partner to Workforce Management, you’ll elevate recruiting strategy, enhance systems and workflows, and deliver actionable data on clinician hiring and hiring pipeline health.

This is an opportunity to become a key player- and if you're driven, analytical, and passionate about getting things done, we’d love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Recruit, coach, and develop a team of clinical recruiters to meet ambitious hiring targets (specialties, coverage ratios, diverse care levels).
• Partner with Workforce Management and Clinical Operations Leads to forecast staffing needs aligned with client onboarding and service expansion.
• Design and maintain recruiting KPIs: time-to-fill, source-of-hire, offer acceptance rates, pipeline health, and diversity metrics.
• Provide regular reports and dashboards to leadership to drive continuous improvements and transparency.
• Lead process-mapping and optimization across ATS, CRM, EHR integrations, scheduling systems, and credentialing trackers.
• Implement automations and tech improvements to advance recruiter efficiency, candidate experience, and compliance.
• Work with Compliance & Credentialing teams to ensure licensure coverage, background checks, privileging documentation for nationwide providers.
• Coordinate with Clinical Ops and Sales teams to tailor hiring approaches for new and existing clients.
• Align with Talent Acquisition to attract both contract (1099) and permanent clinicians.
• Oversee development of clinician outreach materials, events, webinars, and referral programs to build pipeline across specialties.
• Ensure onboarding and post-hire engagement support retention and quality care delivery.
• Other duties as assigned

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in HR, Healthcare Administration, or similar preferred.
• 8+  years in healthcare clinical/provider recruiting (telehealth experience strongly preferred).
• Proven success leading recruiters in high-volume, distributed hiring environments.
• Strong analytical skills—experience with reporting, dashboards, forecasting in ATS/WFM systems.
• Deep understanding of clinician credentialing, licensure, work models (1099 vs W2), and telehealth regulatory issues.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and change leadership capabilities.
• High tech-savvy with experience driving system/process improvements (ATS, CRM, workflow automation).

About OpenLoop

OpenLoop was co-founded by CEO, Dr. Jon Lensing, and COO, Christian Williams, with the vision to bring healing anywhere. Our tele-health support solutions are thoughtfully designed to streamline and simplify go-to-market care delivery for companies offering meaningful virtual support to patients across an expansive array of specialties, in all 50 states.

Our Company Culture

We have a relatively flat organizational structure here at OpenLoop. Everyone is encouraged to bring ideas to the table and make things happen. This fits in well with our core values of Autonomy, Competence and Belonging, as we want everyone to feel empowered and supported to do their best work.

Our Benefits

In addition, for salaried positions you would also be eligible for:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k) + Company Match
• Life Insurance, Pet insurance, and more

Sound like a good fit? We’d love to meet you.

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