Business Operations Director, Recruiting
Leads strategic planning, metrics, operating standards, and cross-functional programs for the recruiting organization. The role requires at least five years in consulting, business analysis, or strategy and operations, strong quantitative skills, and experience driving structured solutions from ambiguity through execution.
About the job
Responsibilities
Business & Organizational Planning
- Act as a strategic thought partner to Recruiting leadership on long-term vision, organizational design, team effectiveness, and strategic priorities.
- Lead planning cycles, including goal-setting and resourcing.
- Develop operating frameworks aligning recruiting capacity, workflows, and resources with business demand across client groups and talent profiles.
- Translate business objectives into team-level plans and measurable outcomes.
Metrics & Business Health
- Establish a comprehensive recruiting metrics suite to monitor operations and goal attainment.
- Oversee reporting rhythms to track progress, identify issues and trends, and manage organizational performance.
- Conduct data-driven business planning and root-cause analysis, developing recommendations.
- Partner with Recruiting Operations on reliable, actionable metrics, data integrity, process design, and supporting tools.
Standards, Accountability & Process
- Clarify and document operating standards across Recruiting.
- Design mechanisms to monitor process adherence and surface gaps.
- Work with managers and individual contributors to course-correct constructively and drive accountability.
Initiatives & Programs
- Turn early-stage ideas into scoped, structured, executable plans and lead execution through adoption.
- Own programs such as recruiter onboarding, documentation and playbook development, and operating cadence design.
- Coordinate initiatives with Recruiting, HR, Finance, Legal, and business stakeholders.
- Manage vendor and agency relationships, including contracting, onboarding, performance management, and renewals.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in management consulting, business analysis, strategy and operations, special projects, or a similar analytical and operational discipline.
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems, build frameworks, and drive solutions independently.
- Experience designing effective processes that leverage automation and AI-enabled optimization.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including data analysis, metrics design, and reporting.
- Track record of managing projects end-to-end, including cross-functional work and change management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear narratives.
- Comfort working directly with senior stakeholders.
- Ability to hold others to standards with clarity and professionalism, balanced with empathy and enablement.
- Self-directed, highly organized, and able to manage a diverse, shifting portfolio without close supervision.
- Owner’s mindset, with strong planning and resource-allocation judgment.
- Bachelor’s degree.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $165,000–$225,000.
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Technology talks by company experts.
- Modern office and daily catered lunches.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Data Analysis, Metrics Design, Reporting, Business Analysis, Strategy And Operations, Process Design, Project Management, Change Management, Organizational Design, Resource Planning, Vendor Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Integrity
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