# Recruiting Operations Lead

**Company:** [Forus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forus)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $180k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Ashby, Ats Configuration, SQL, BigQuery, Excel, Google Sheets, Business Intelligence Tools, Recruiting Operations, Data Analysis, Process Automation
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Build and run the operational backbone of recruiting at a fast-scaling AI healthcare startup. Own Ashby architecture, reporting, hiring processes, tech stack, and referral programs.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own Forus’s Ashby architecture end to end, including jobs, interview plans, workflows, permissions, automations, integrations, and data integrity
- Produce the reporting and dashboards that become the company’s source of truth for hiring progress, recruiting capacity, funnel conversion, time to hire, and source quality
- Audit the hiring process across functions, identify where candidates are moving slowly or being lost, and drive the operational changes required to fix it
- Translate company headcount plans and changing business priorities into search prioritization, recruiter capacity plans, hiring forecasts, and clear operating cadences
- Develop the processes, templates, playbooks, and service standards that help recruiters and hiring managers run rigorous searches consistently
- Own the recruiting technology stack beyond Ashby, including scheduling and sourcing platforms, Slack integrations, referral tools, and AI products such as Clay or Juicebox
- Build and continuously improve company-wide referral programs, making it easy for employees to identify, submit, engage, and track exceptional candidates
- Surface the trends, risks, and bottlenecks that are not obvious from a dashboard, and synthesize them into clear recommendations for recruiting and company leadership

## Requirements
- 3–8 years in recruiting operations, people operations, revenue operations, business operations, or another systems- and analytics-oriented role, ideally in a rapidly scaling company
- Strong hands-on experience configuring and improving a modern ATS; direct Ashby experience is strongly preferred
- Deep comfort with data: Excel or Sheets is table stakes, and experience with SQL, BigQuery, or a business-intelligence tool is a plus
- Communication and influence ability to drive adoption and accountability across recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers, and senior leaders
- A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
- High NPS with your former teammates

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience standing up RecOps systems and process from scratch at an early-stage or hyper-scaling company

## Benefits
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave
- 401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass
- Lunch at the office every day and Dinner at the office after 7 pm
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity

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