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IroncladIroncladSan Francisco, CA

Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations

Leads recruiting operations, scales infrastructure with AI and automation, drives workforce planning and analytics, and builds enablement programs to enable high-quality global hiring at a high-growth tech company. Requires 8+ years in recruiting ops or people ops.

165k – 200k
Hybrid8+ YOERecruiting

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Manage Recruiting Coordinators and Recruiting Operations for the company enabling high quality hiring at speed.
  • Drive continuous process improvement, consistency and operational excellence across recruiting teams globally.
  • Architect and maintain a scalable recruiting infrastructure (systems and processes) with a relentless focus on leveraging AI and automation to eliminate friction, reduce manual effort, and accelerate high-volume hiring.
  • Lead change management efforts, rapidly iterating on systems and training teams to maximize adoption of new, AI-driven workflows.
  • Drive strategic workforce planning in partnership with Finance and People leaders, delivering data-backed hiring forecasts, capacity models, and scenario analyses.
  • Lead recruiting analytics, providing executive-level insights on capacity, risk, timelines, and strategic trade-offs along with translating data into actionable insights that improve team performance.
  • Elevate organizational hiring capability by developing structured interviewing frameworks, creating best-practice playbooks, and building comprehensive enablement programs for recruiters and hiring managers.
  • Partner closely with Talent Acquisition leadership to reinforce high standards for candidate experience and overall hiring outcomes.

What You Have

  • 8+ years of progressive leadership in Recruiting Operations, Workforce Planning, or People Operations, ideally within a high-growth, technology-driven environment.
  • Expertise with modern recruiting systems and recruiting technology, including ATS, scheduling, and analytics tooling. Experience with Ashby and Ashby Analytics is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated expertise in leveraging AI and intelligent automation to fundamentally transform recruiting efficiency and candidate engagement.
  • Advanced analytical fluency and the ability to build predictive models that directly inform and drive executive decision-making.
  • Proven track record of successfully architecting recruiting infrastructure that scales.
  • Experience building enablement programs and improving hiring manager and interviewer effectiveness.
  • A builder’s mindset and passion for innovation; eager to pilot new technologies and lead teams through transformative digital change.
  • Exceptional skills in stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, program execution, and change management.

Compensation

Base Salary Range: $165,000 - $200,000 The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters.

Skills

AshbyAshby AnalyticsATSAIAutomationPredictive ModelsAnalyticsWorkforce PlanningRecruiting SystemsScheduling Tools

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