Sr. Director, Surgeon Recruitment and Growth

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Surgeon Recruitment & Growth will lead the strategy and execution of surgeon workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, and early-career growth across Allied OMS. This role is responsible for ensuring the organization has the right surgeon talent, in the right markets, at the right time to support the long-term growth of existing practices, de novo locations, and the broader Allied OMS network.

Surgeon Recruitment & Pipeline Development

• Own the end-to-end surgeon recruiting strategy and achieve annual hiring goals by sourcing, engaging, screening, and successfully placing high-quality oral and maxillofacial surgeons.
• Build and manage a national pipeline of residents, fellows, and practicing surgeons through direct outreach, referrals, professional networks, job boards, conferences, and residency relationships.
• Maintain accurate candidate and pipeline activity, with clear standards for follow-up, pipeline stages, and forecasting.
• Develop long-term candidate engagement strategies for surgeons who may be several years away from a career transition.
• Serve as a strong ambassador for the Allied OMS model, culture, growth opportunities, and doctor-led approach.

Candidate Experience, Interviews & Contracting

• Design and continuously improve a consistent, high-quality candidate experience from initial contact through signing and onboarding.
• Coordinate the multi-step interview process and serve as the primary liaison among candidates, practice surgeons, and leadership.
• Lead the offer and contract process from term sheet through final employment agreement in partnership with leadership, Finance, Human Resources, and legal counsel.
• Track candidate progress, identify barriers to conversion, and implement strategies to improve interview-to-offer and offer-to-sign rates.

Surgeon Onboarding, Integration & First-Year Growth

• Serve as the primary organizational relationship owner for newly recruited surgeons from signing through their first year of practice.
• Act as the onboarding quarterback, coordinating structured onboarding across Operations, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, IT, Data, and other relevant departments, with clear points of contact and ownership.
• Partner with Operations and practice leadership to ensure operational readiness before start date, including staffing, scheduling, equipment, referral development, and other market-specific needs.
• Coordinate mentorship and first-year ramp support; track early performance indicators, identify barriers to growth, and coordinate interventions when needed.

Surgeon Workforce Planning & Strategy

• Develop and maintain a multi-year surgeon workforce plan aligned with practice capacity, succession planning, market demand, de novo development, and organizational growth priorities.
• Partner with Operations and physician leadership to identify and prioritize current and future surgeon needs across the network.
• Create market-specific recruiting strategies and build proactive pipelines for anticipated needs before positions become urgent.
• Provide leadership with regular visibility into workforce needs, pipeline health, recruiting risks, and expected hiring timelines.
• Partner with Business Development and Operations on surgeon talent strategy for new markets, practice affiliations, and de novo opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in business, healthcare administration, human resources, or a related field preferred.
• Significant experience in physician recruitment, executive recruiting, healthcare operations, provider growth, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to develop workforce plans and translate organizational growth strategies into actionable recruiting pipelines.
• Proven success recruiting physicians or other highly specialized professionals in a competitive talent market.
• Strong understanding of the physician candidate lifecycle, including sourcing, relationship development, interviewing, contracting, onboarding, and retention.
• Ability to build credibility with surgeons, residents, practice leaders, and senior executives.
• Strong project management, communication, negotiation, relationship-building, presentation, and analytical skills.
• Ability to balance long-term strategic planning with hands-on execution and a high degree of ownership and follow-through.

Travel Requirements

Able to travel regularly throughout the United States for residency engagement events, After-Hours dinners, conferences, candidate visits, surgeon onboarding initiatives, Launch Lab events, practice visits, and other activities as directed by company leadership. (~50%)

Why Allied OMS

Rapidly growing, multi-state OMS platform
Opportunity to shape strategy at scale
High-impact role with direct influence on growth and performance
Collaborative, clinically driven culture