RecruitingOperationsLead

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-baseten-s-300m-series-e/, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're hiring a Recruiting Operations Lead to build and scale the operational backbone of our talent function. As Baseten enters its next phase of growth, the quality and efficiency of how we hire matters enormously — and this role exists to make every part of that process faster, smarter, and more consistent. You'll sit at the intersection of recruiting strategy, systems, and data — defining process standards, driving recruiter enablement, and turning hiring data into actionable insight. You'll work closely with our recruiters, recruiting coordinators, and people team to ensure that every candidate and hiring manager experiences something exceptional. This is a foundational role. You won't just maintain what exists — you'll design what should exist. RESPONSIBILITIES - 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 o