Profound

Marketing platform

Manager,RecruitingOperations&AIAutomation

$175–215k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“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.

Marketing platform
Problems you'll solve

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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