Recruiting Operations Lead, Systems and Strategy

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic is seeking a Lead for Recruiting Systems and Strategy to architect and optimize the technical infrastructure that powers our talent acquisition efforts. Reporting to the Head of Recruiting Operations, you'll own the strategy, implementation, and advancement of our recruiting technology ecosystem. This role leads the intersection of AI innovation, process automation, and scalable quality control to create systems that enable both speed and excellence in our talent acquisition mission.

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Create smart solutions and data-driven decision support tools. Lead technical due diligence on emerging AI and automation tools to enhance recruiting capabilities
• Design and drive the long-term strategic roadmap for recruiting technology across the full candidate and hiring lifecycle
• Optimize and enable team around recruiting systems including ATS, CRM, sourcing tools, and Claude that enhance recruiter effectiveness
• Create seamless integrations between recruiting tools and broader business ecosystem (Workday, HRIS) to ensure data integrity and workflow efficiency

Systems Architecture & Optimization

• Own the technical configuration and enhancement of core recruiting platforms (Greenhouse, sourcing tools, scheduling solutions)
• Create automated workflow orchestration that maintains high-touch moments while streamlining operational tasks
• Drive quality control systems that ensure consistent recruiting standards while enabling rapid scaling
• Ensure security protocols, compliance requirements, and documentation standards are implemented across all systems

Vendor Management & Innovation

• Manage strategic relationships with recruiting technology vendors, driving product roadmap alignment with our needs
• Lead contract negotiations and budget management for recruiting technology portfolio
• Stay ahead of recruiting technology trends and implement pilot programs to test emerging solutions
• Partner with engineering teams to build custom integrations, automations and solve unique technical challenges

Implementation & Change Management

• Drive "build vs. buy" decisions with technical depth and business acumen, optimizing for scalable innovation and emerging technologies
• Create comprehensive documentation, training materials, and enablement resources for technical workflows
• Establish governance frameworks and best practices for system usage across the recruiting organization
• Drive system adoption through change management, user acceptance testing, and impact measurement to ensure new workflows stick and transform recruiting operations

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 10+ years of technical experience with recruiting systems and 5+ years leading technical teams in high-growth environments
• Possess deep hands-on expertise with ATS platforms, recruiting CRMs, and integration technologies
• Demonstrate proven ability to architect and implement complex recruiting technology ecosystems
• Have experience with data analytics, reporting tools, and creating dashboards for executive-level stakeholders
• Show track record of architecting and implementing quality-at-scale solutions that balance efficiency with relationship value
• Exhibit strong technical project management skills with ability to prioritize across competing initiatives
• Display excellent vendor management experience including contract negotiation and product roadmap influence

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience with API development and custom system integrations
• Knowledge of AI/ML applications in recruiting technology
• Experience with recruiting process automation and workflow optimization
• Worked with international recruiting systems and multi-region configurations
• Background in data engineering or business intelligence in HR/recruiting context
• Led recruiting technology transformations in 1000+ employee organizations
• Technical certifications in relevant platforms (Workday, Greenhouse, etc.)

The expected salary range for this position is:

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.