Head of People

Frontrow Health
Frontrow Health

People & HR

Austin, TX, USA

Posted on Jul 11, 2026

Company Description: FrontrowMD is on a mission to solve consumer trust in health and wellness. Today, our Clinicians’ Choice badges, Clinician Reviews, and ClinicianAI shopping assistant have enabled 700+ of the best DTC brands to increase confidence with their shoppers, by delivering medical expert and research insights right to the point of purchase.

We are backed by top-tier VC and angel investors who are pioneers in digital health. FrontrowMD’s Founder & CEO, Irfan Alam, formerly led business strategy at Everlywell, a consumer health unicorn, before being awarded Forbes 30 under 30 when he dropped out Harvard Business School to launch the company in 2022.

Role Description: Now that we’ve found product-market-fit, we are hiring a full-time People/HR Lead to help manage our ~50 full-time team that is growing quickly.

Talent acquisition & recruiting

  • Own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing and first-round screens through offer.
  • Run background and reference checks, and deliver a high-signal, respectful candidate experience.
  • Build repeatable hiring processes, scorecards, and an interview bar that scales with headcount.

People operations & compliance

  • Own payroll, health insurance and benefits administration, and annual renewals.
  • Administer and continually improve our HRIS / PEO and keep employee records accurate and audit-ready.
  • Ensure compliance with federal and multi-state employment law across a distributed workforce.

Employee relations & performance

  • Be the trusted first point of contact for employee questions and concerns.
  • Support managers on performance management, and handle offboarding and separations with fairness and care.
  • Steward company policies — keep them current, compliant, and clearly communicated.

Culture & engagement

  • Build culture and community in a remote-first environment.
  • Plan and execute our bi-annual team retreats end-to-end.
  • Own onboarding so new hires ramp fast and feel connected from day one.

Partner to leadership

  • Act as a thought partner to the CEO and leadership on org design, headcount planning, and compensation.
  • Take on occasional high-priority special projects in close partnership with the CEO.
About you

Must-haves

  • 5+ years in HR / People roles, including time inside a fast-moving startup.
  • Hands-on experience owning payroll and benefits administration (ideally Rippling)
  • Working knowledge of US multi-state employment compliance.
  • Full-cycle recruiting experience.
  • Comfortable operating as the sole People person and building from a blank page — scrappy, systems-minded, and biased toward action.
  • Excellent written and verbal communicator with genuine discretion around confidential and sensitive matters.
  • Poise and sound judgment in difficult conversations.

Nice-to-haves

  • Scaling experience through Series A/B growth.
  • SHRM-CP / SHRM-SCP or PHR / SPHR certification.
  • Background in health, wellness, or another regulated space.
Logistics
  • Remote, US-based
  • Full-time