Director Talent Acquisition

About NovoMed PARTNERS NovoMed PARTNERS is an operator-led healthcare platform focused on building, scaling, and accelerating transformative medical technology companies. Founded by experienced MedTech executives and entrepreneurs, NovoMed brings together operating experience, industry relationships, strategic insight, and capital to help exceptional healthcare companies realize their full potential. As NovoMed and our portfolio continue to grow, attracting exceptional people will be one of our most important competitive advantages. We are looking for someone exceptional to help us build that advantage. The Opportunity NovoMed PARTNERS is seeking a Director, Talent Acquisition to build and lead our talent acquisition capability across the NovoMed ecosystem. This is not a traditional corporate recruiting role. We are looking for a builder, connector, talent scout, and trusted advisor who knows how to identify exceptional people - including people who may not be looking for their next opportunity. You will work directly with NovoMed's senior leadership and the leaders of our portfolio companies to identify, engage, assess, recruit, and close outstanding talent across the MedTech industry. The mandate extends well beyond filling open positions. You will help NovoMed build a proprietary network and pipeline of the industry's best executives, commercial leaders, engineers, clinicians, operators, and emerging leaders - creating a talent advantage that grows with the NovoMed platform. This is a highly visible, hands-on role for someone who loves finding great people and thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment. What You Will Do Own Talent Acquisition Across the NovoMed Ecosystem Build and execute the talent acquisition strategy for NovoMed PARTNERS and our portfolio companies. Partner directly with CEOs, founders, executives, and functional leaders to understand their organizations, anticipate talent needs, and translate business strategy into hiring priorities. Personally lead searches for critical positions across executive leadership, commercial, clinical, R&D, engineering, regulatory, quality, operations, finance, strategy, and other functions. Support organizations ranging from early-stage ventures building their first leadership teams to growth-stage companies preparing for commercialization and scale. Become a trusted talent advisor to NovoMed leadership and portfolio company CEOs. Find Exceptional People Proactively identify and engage high-performing candidates - including passive candidates who are not actively looking. Develop creative sourcing strategies using direct outreach, industry networks, LinkedIn, referrals, conferences, competitive intelligence, and other channels. Build detailed talent maps of key MedTech companies, functions, geographies, and emerging leaders. Continuously develop relationships with outstanding people before there is an open position for them. Build and maintain a proprietary NovoMed talent network that becomes increasingly valuable as the platform grows. Recruit and Close Own the full recruiting lifecycle from initial search strategy through sourcing, assessment, interviews, references, offer development, negotiation, and close. Develop a deep understanding of candidates' motivations, aspirations, strengths, and potential fit within the NovoMed ecosystem. Deliver a high-touch, thoughtful candidate experience representative of the NovoMed brand. Help hiring leaders distinguish between a good candidate and an exceptional one. Develop compelling narratives that attract high-performing candidates to entrepreneurial opportunities where the company or opportunity may still be relatively unknown. Build the Talent Acquisition Engine Design scalable recruiting processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. Establish the tools, systems, candidate databases, ATS capabilities, reporting, and operating rhythms required to support multiple companies and searches. Develop dashboards and metrics around pipeline quality, time-to-fill, quality of hire, sourcing effectiveness, candidate conversion, and recruiting costs. Introduce AI, automation, market intelligence, and modern sourcing technologies where they materially improve recruiting effectiveness. Build repeatable approaches for talent mapping, candidate assessment, referencing, and executive search. Select and manage external recruiters and executive search firms when appropriate while steadily building more capability internally. Build the NovoMed Talent Brand Help position NovoMed as a destination for exceptional MedTech leaders and emerging talent. Develop relationships throughout the medical technology ecosystem, including executives, entrepreneurs, investors, clinicians, engineers, and industry organizations. Identify high-potential emerging leaders before they become obvious candidates. Represent NovoMed at selected industry events and networking opportunities. Help create a community of exceptional people who want to build the next generation of healthcare companies. Who You Are You are not simply a recruiter. You are naturally curious about people and companies. You remember exceptional individuals. You understand what makes someone successful in one environment and potentially transformational in another. You are comfortable speaking with a CEO in the morning, sourcing a difficult-to-find engineering leader in the afternoon, and convincing a high-performing passive candidate to consider an entrepreneurial opportunity that evening. You combine judgment, hustle, credibility, curiosity, and exceptional follow-through. Most importantly, you have a genuine passion for finding great people. What We're Looking For Approximately 7-12+ years of progressive recruiting, talent acquisition, executive search, or related experience, with flexibility for an exceptional candidate. Demonstrated success personally sourcing and recruiting high-quality candidates. Experience within MedTech, medical devices, life sciences, healthcare, or another innovation-driven industry strongly preferred. Experience recruiting across multiple functions and levels, ideally including senior leadership. Strong direct-sourcing skills and demonstrated ability to recruit passive candidates. Excellent interviewing, assessment, referencing, negotiation, and closing capabilities. Strong understanding of LinkedIn Recruiter, modern sourcing platforms, ATS technologies, talent intelligence tools, and emerging AI-enabled recruiting technologies. Ability to develop trusted relationships with CEOs, executives, founders, and hiring leaders. Strong business judgment and ability to understand how talent decisions affect company strategy and performance. High energy, strong sense of urgency, exceptional organization, and obsessive follow-through. Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building processes from the ground up. Entrepreneurial mindset with a willingness to personally do the work rather than simply manage others or outside recruiters. Particularly Interesting Backgrounds We are especially interested in candidates who have succeeded in one or more of the following environments: High-growth medical device or healthcare technology companies MedTech executive search or specialized recruiting firms Venture capital or private equity portfolio talent organizations High-growth startups where recruiting capabilities were built from the ground up Large MedTech organizations combined with meaningful entrepreneurial or growth-company experience A strong existing network within the medical device industry would be highly valuable. What Success Looks Like Within your first year, you will have: Established a scalable talent acquisition capability for NovoMed and our portfolio companies. Built trusted relationships with NovoMed leadership and portfolio company CEOs. Successfully recruited several high-impact leaders and critical hires. Developed talent maps across priority MedTech functions and companies. Created a growing proprietary database and network of exceptional MedTech talent. Reduced dependence on outside search firms while improving the quality and speed of hiring. Established NovoMed as a place where exceptional people want to build the next chapter of their careers. Why NovoMed This is an opportunity to build something different. Instead of recruiting for one organization, you will have visibility across a growing ecosystem of healthcare companies and the opportunity to help build leadership teams from the ground up. You will work directly with experienced operators, founders, CEOs, investors, and innovators tackling meaningful problems in healthcare. And you will have the opportunity to create something that can become one of NovoMed's most important long-term assets: an extraordinary network of people capable of building extraordinary healthcare companies. Equal Opportunity EmployerWe are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under applicable law.