# Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations

**Company:** [Ironclad](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ironclad)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $165k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Ashby, Ashby Analytics, ATS, AI, Automation, Predictive Models, Analytics, Workforce Planning, Recruiting Systems, Scheduling Tools
**Posted:** 2026-05-14

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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