Recruiting Operations Lead

Baseten

Recruiting Operations Lead enhancing talent functions at AI company Baseten. Designing scalable hiring processes and driving data initiatives for improved efficiency.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and document recruiting processes. Build clear, consistent, scalable workflows across the full hiring lifecycle — from role kick-off to offer acceptance — and ensure they're adopted across the team.
Build the recruiting data foundation. Define our core metrics (time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, pipeline conversion, source effectiveness) and create dashboards that give recruiters, people leadership, and the business real-time visibility into hiring health.
Drive interviewer and hiring manager enablement. Create training materials, calibration guides, and onboarding resources that raise the quality and consistency of our interview process across every function.
Lead recruiting programs and initiatives. Own high-priority projects such as candidate experience improvements, referral program optimization, recruiting branding, and DEI initiatives end-to-end — from scoping to execution to measurement.
Evaluate and implement new tools. Stay ahead of the recruiting technology landscape — from AI-powered sourcing tools to interview intelligence platforms — and bring a thoughtful POV on what Baseten should adopt and how.
Partner cross-functionally. Collaborate with People, Finance, and BizTech to ensure recruiting data flows cleanly into downstream systems, headcount plans stay current, and compliance requirements are met.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Operationally rigorous. You see recruiting as a system and instinctively look for the process gaps, data blind spots, and workflow inefficiencies others walk past. You build things that scale.
An ATS power user. You have deep hands-on experience with modern recruiting platforms (Ashby strongly preferred) and can configure, troubleshoot, and optimize them without needing an engineer's help.
Data fluent. You're comfortable writing queries, building reports, and communicating insights — and you know which metrics actually matter versus which are vanity.
A strong communicator and project manager. You can translate messy processes into clean documentation, run cross-functional initiatives without losing stakeholders, and deliver clear updates to leadership.
A builder, not just a maintainer. You're energized by ambiguity. You've built recruiting operations programs largely from scratch at a high-growth company and have the organizational scars to prove it.
Experienced. You have 4+ years in recruiting operations, talent operations, or a closely related function — ideally at a fast-moving startup or high-growth tech company. Experience supporting both technical and GTM hiring is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
Company-facilitated 401(k)
Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

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Hard Skills & Tools

recruiting processescore metricsdata analysisreport buildingquery writingproject managementworkflow optimizationcandidate experience improvementrecruiting brandingDEI initiatives

Soft Skills

operational rigorstrong communicationcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityorganizational skillsstakeholder managementtraining developmentprocess documentationinitiative ownership