Profound
Marketing platform
Manager,RecruitingOperations&AIAutomation
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“Manager, Recruiting Operations & AI Automation at Profound. Skills: Recruiting operations, AI automation, Team management. Lead and develop Recruiting Coordination team. Hire, manage, and grow team”
What You'll Achieve.
Increase coordinator throughput; Increase recruiter efficiency; Ensure approved hiring plans move on schedule
Industry & Context.
Systems thinker; Finds broken processes interesting; Diagnose issues; Fix issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years in recruiting operations, 2+ years managing a team, Actively experimented with AI tools
Nice to Have
Experience with AI automation
What You'll Do.
Lead and develop Recruiting Coordination team
Own day-to-day priorities
Own development and performance
Build operating rhythms
Set clear expectations
Set accountability frameworks
Own recruiting tech stack
Configure ATS pipeline
Configure ATS scorecards
Configure ATS automations
Configure ATS integrations
Manage recruiting technology ecosystem
Ensure value extraction from tools
Build AI-enabled workflows
Increase coordinator throughput
Increase recruiter efficiency
Build data foundation
Design recruiting metrics dashboard
Maintain recruiting metrics dashboard
Track pipeline conversion
Track offer acceptance rates
Track capacity utilization
Diagnose candidate stalls
Fix candidate loss points
Partner on headcount planning
Partner on req tracking
Enable hiring managers
Design hiring manager enablement programs
Run hiring manager enablement programs
Provide structured intake templates
Provide interview guides
Provide calibrated scorecards
Hold parties accountable
Codify hiring process
Own interviewer training
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Recruiting teams; Hiring managers; Finance; People Ops
Communication Scope
Influencer
Process & Methodology
Process mapping
Full Job Description
Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures at a $1B valuation, we're a lean, fast-moving team across NYC, SF, Buenos Aires, and London, shipping at a relentless pace and defining a new category at the biggest shift in marketing in 25 years. If you want to do the best work of your career at the frontier of AI, come build it with us. As Profound's first Recruiting Operations Manager hire, you'll own both the infrastructure and the team that powers how we hire at scale. You'll build and lead a team of Recruiting Coordinators, architect the systems and processes that let every recruiter move faster, and bring genuine AI and automation expertise to bear: not as a buzzword, but as a forcing function for doing more with less. This is a rare opportunity to define what modern recruiting operations looks like at a company building at the frontier of AI. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead & develop the Recruiting Coordination team - Hire, manage, and grow a team of Recruiting Coordinators as our hiring volume scales, owning their day-to-day priorities, development, and performance - Build the team structure, capacity model, and operating rhythms that allow the function to keep pace with aggressive hiring targets - Set clear expectations and accountability frameworks so the team executes consistently without bottlenecks Own and evolve the recruiting tech stack - Own Profound's ATS end to end: pipeline configuration, stage definitions, scorecards, automations, and integrations with scheduling and sourcing tools - Manage the full recruiting technology ecosystem beyond the
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