Physician Recruiter at Enigma Search in San Jose, California, United States
- Company: Enigma Search
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Posted: Sep 20, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 5+ years
Overview
The Physician Recruiter leads full-cycle recruitment of physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), and clinical professionals, with a primary focus on Primary Care Physicians. This role supports organizational growth by building strong talent pipelines in a highly competitive healthcare market.
Job description
- The Physician Recruiter leads full-cycle recruitment of physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), and clinical professionals, with a primary focus on Primary Care Physicians. This role supports organizational growth by building strong talent pipelines in a highly competitive healthcare market.
- This person manages the entire hiring process from workforce planning and sourcing to candidate engagement, offer negotiation, onboarding collaboration, and early retention. Acting as a trusted advisor to physician and operational leaders, the Physician Recruiter brings market insight, strategy, and relationship-driven recruiting expertise to every search.
Responsibilities
- Recruitment Strategy & Workforce Planning
- Partner with clinical and operational leaders to identify current and future hiring needs
- Develop targeted strategies for high-priority and hard-to-fill roles
- Provide market insight on compensation trends and candidate availability
- Full-Cycle Recruitment
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for physicians and APPs, including sourcing, outreach, screening, interviews, site visits, offers, and onboarding coordination
- Deliver a high-touch, relationship-focused candidate experience
- Build and maintain long-term pipelines of passive and active candidates
- Sourcing & Pipeline Development
- Use LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, professional associations, referrals, and networking
- Create innovative sourcing strategies for competitive specialties and markets
- Stakeholder Partnership
- Advise hiring physicians and leaders on interviewing, candidate evaluation, and market conditions
- Ensure alignment between candidate expectations and organizational culture
- Recruitment Operations
- Maintain accurate ATS data, reporting, and compliance
- Manage external search firms and recruitment vendors
- Track metrics such as time-to-fill, source effectiveness, and pipeline health
Requirements
- Required
- 3–5+ years of physician recruiting experience in a healthcare setting
- Proven success filling physician roles in competitive markets
- Strong full-cycle recruiting and offer negotiation skills
- Excellent communication and relationship-building ability
- Experience with ATS platforms and sourcing tools
- Experience in highly competitive healthcare markets
- Knowledge of physician compensation models (wRVUs, productivity, incentives)
- Familiarity with medical group or ambulatory care environments
- Understanding of provider contracting and onboarding processes
Skills
Required
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Offer negotiation
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- ATS platforms
- Sourcing tools