
Global Head of Recruiting Operations
Harvey
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $270,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead end-to-end recruiting operations for a rapidly scaling, globally distributed team supporting aggressive international expansion.
- Partner with Finance, People, and business leaders on global headcount planning, providing hiring forecasts, capacity models, and scenario analysis.
- Design and evolve a global recruiting operating model that enables speed, clarity, and accountability across regions and roles.
- Drive AI enablement across recruiting: identify high-impact use cases, pilot and scale AI tools, and embed automation into workflows to radically reduce manual effort and accelerate hiring.
- Architect scalable systems and processes that remove friction and support high-volume, high-velocity hiring—with relentless focus on leveraging AI to automate repetitive tasks and eliminate bottlenecks.
- Own recruiting analytics and decision support, delivering clear insights on capacity, risk, timelines, and tradeoffs.
- Lead optimization of the recruiting technology stack, including ATS configuration and aggressive deployment of AI-driven tools to increase speed and efficiency.
- Champion intelligent automation within recruiting—driving adoption, training teams, and ensuring AI tools deliver compounding productivity gains.
- Enable the recruiting organization to operate at speed through clear capacity planning and operational infrastructure powered by AI-driven insights.
- Establish recruiting governance and regional compliance frameworks that scale globally without slowing teams down.
- Drive continuous improvement, rapidly iterating on systems and processes—with AI as a core lever for efficiency gains.
Requirements
- 10+ years in recruiting operations, workforce planning, or people operations in high-growth environments.
- Deep experience supporting global recruiting teams and hiring across multiple regions.
- Strong systems thinker who can design scalable solutions under time pressure.
- Proven track record implementing and driving adoption of AI and automation tools to transform operational efficiency.
- Highly data-driven, with comfort building models to inform fast decisions.
- Experience scaling recruiting infrastructure during rapid expansion.
- Passion for intelligent automation and a builder's mindset—eager to experiment, iterate, and lead teams through technology-driven transformation.
- Clear communicator with executive presence and ability to influence at speed.
- Bias toward action, pragmatism, and progress over perfection.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- Flexible PTO
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Hard skills
recruiting operationsworkforce planningpeople operationsAI toolsautomation toolsrecruiting analyticscapacity planningscalable solutionsrecruiting infrastructuredata-driven decision making
Soft skills
systems thinkerclear communicatorexecutive presenceinfluencebias toward actionpragmatismprogress over perfectionpassion for intelligent automationbuilder's mindsetleadership