Candidate & Employee Experience Specialist

TLDR

Build and scale a seamless candidate and onboarding experience in a fast-growing startup with a high ownership role.

About Freshpaint:

Customer data is the fuel that drives all modern businesses. From product analytics, to marketing, to support, to advertising, advanced data analysis in the warehouse, and even sales – customer data is the raw material for each function at a modern business.

For highly regulated businesses in healthcare, it’s always been a challenge to harness that customer data and get it to the marketing and analytics tools that require it while following patient privacy laws….until now.

Something as simple as running ads to get more users is simple for an e-commerce of software company to do. But common web analytics and advertising tools collect sensitive user identifiers and healthcare information automatically. Those same tools are not HIPAA compliant.

We provide a layer of data governance to make current web analytics tools HIPAA-compliant. For analytics, our customers can continue getting the insights they need to improve the patient experience. For marketing, Freshpaint safeguards health information while helping our customers promote access to care through popular advertising platforms like Facebook, Google, and others.

In short, we help healthcare marketers promote access to care and safeguard patient privacy at the same time. This is an important, complex problem in a massive market (healthcare is 20% of the US GDP).

Our customers manage their customer data with:

  1. Privacy Platform. We help healthcare providers automate their website’s + app’s HIPAA compliance, and safeguard patient data. This is our core product today

  2. Future additional product lines! Our core product provides a platform that we're building marketing applications on top of.


We’re fully remote. If you strongly value in-person work, Freshpaint is likely not the best fit for you. Even though we don’t care where you’re located, we only hire within the US. Many of our team is concentrated in various metro areas like SF or NYC. To balance out our remote-ness, we gather the team 2x times per year for offsites. We’re backed by leading investors including Y-Combinator, Intel Capital, and angel investors like the Head of Data from Slack, Head of Data at LinkedIn, and more.

Who we are:

Freshpaint was founded by web analytics veterans who realized how hard it was for highly regulated companies to collect and use customer data in a compliant way. We started as part of Y Combinator’s S19 cohort and have been focused on enabling healthcare companies collect, safeguard, and activate patient data since.

In 2022 the government issued updated guidance around HIPAA, basically making our software a requirement to use for healthcare companies. As a result, we're one of the fastest growing software companies on earth right now.

Our team has deep analytics and growth experience, with all of us coming from high-growth companies like Heap, Pendo, Iterable, Quantum Metric, and Retool. If you value lots of freedom and ownership in your work, interfacing with customers, and working on a product with high customer impact, then Freshpaint is your home.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented operator who takes ownership of the candidate and employee experience from start to finish. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, communicates clearly under pressure, and instinctively improves systems rather than simply executing tasks. They care deeply about how candidates and new hires experience a company and take pride in creating processes that feel thoughtful, seamless, and well run.

You operate with a strong bias for action, maintain high attention to detail even when juggling multiple priorities, and bring a systems mindset to operational work. You’re comfortable working across recruiting, hiring managers, and people operations teams, ensuring every interaction with Freshpaint reflects our standards for clarity, organization, and ownership.

At your core, you think like an owner. You run toward problems, take initiative to fix what isn’t working, and continuously raise the bar for how candidates and employees experience the company.

What you’ll be doing

Freshpaint is hiring a Candidate & Employee Experience Specialist to build and scale a seamless experience from a candidate’s first interaction with Freshpaint through their first days as an employee.

This role sits at the center of our hiring and onboarding engine and you’ll report to our Lead Talent Partner.. You will own the experience from the moment a candidate visits our careers page through the interview process and into their onboarding as a new hire. You are not just coordinating interviews. You are designing and operating the systems that ensure every candidate and employee interaction reflects who we are.

Over the next two years, your mission is to build and scale a world-class candidate and employee experience that enables Freshpaint to hire exceptional talent quickly while ensuring every new hire starts with clarity, organization, and confidence.

This is a high ownership, high slope role inside a fast-growing startup.

Primary responsibilities

  • You are extremely proficient in Ashby - meaning you know Ashby better than the people who work at Ashby.

  • Own the end to end candidate experience from application through offer and acceptance

  • Coordinate & schedule interviews and ensure clear, timely communication with candidates throughout the process

  • Identify friction in the hiring process and proactively improve it

  • Maintain clean, accurate ATS data and drive scorecard completion in Ashby

  • Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to keep hiring processes organized and moving quickly

  • Design and operate a structured onboarding experience that helps new hires ramp quickly

  • Continuously improve the candidate and onboarding experience based on feedback and operational insights

  • Ensure every interaction with Freshpaint feels thoughtful, organized, and high-ownership

Nice to Haves

  • Experience designing or improving employee onboarding programs

  • Experience working closely with People Ops or HR teams on new hire onboarding

  • Prior experience supporting hiring across both technical and GTM roles

  • Experience with Juicebox & Justworks

  • Experience at an early stage or high growth SaaS startup

  • Strong candidate communication or employer brand instincts

Perks & Benefits

We take care of our team—here’s a peek at what you get when you join:

  • Competitive pay + generous equity (10-year exercise window)

  • Fully remote (U.S. only) with a $150/month coworking stipend

  • Half-day Fridays, every Friday

  • Unlimited PTO—with a required 2-week minimum

  • Top-tier health, dental & vision (100% covered for you, 80% for dependents)

  • 2 “Treat Yourself” days a year—$100 and a day off, just because

  • Generous parental leave

  • Epic offsites twice a year (past trips: Greece, Jackson Hole, Cabo, wine country + more)

And more—check out our careers page for the full list.

Benefits

4-Day Workweek

Half-day Fridays, every Friday

Health Insurance

Top-tier health, dental & vision (100% covered for you, 80% for dependents)

Epic offsites

Epic offsites twice a year (past trips: Greece, Jackson Hole, Cabo, wine country + more)

Paid Parental Leave

Generous parental leave

Paid Time Off

Unlimited PTO—with a required 2-week minimum

Remote-Friendly

Fully remote (U.S. only) with a $150/month coworking stipend

Freshpaint builds solutions that enable healthcare companies to collect, safeguard, and activate patient data while ensuring compliance with regulations like HIPAA. Designed specifically for the complexities of highly regulated industries, our platform empowers healthcare marketers to effectively harness customer data without compromising patient privacy.

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$85,000 – $110,000 per year
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