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).