Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations

📋 Description

• • At Horizon3.ai, we're building a world-class team to solve some of the hardest problems in cybersecurity. As we continue to scale globally, our People team plays a critical role in ensuring every employee has an exceptional experience—from onboarding through growth and development.
• • We're looking for a Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations who thrives in high-growth environments and enjoys building scalable, efficient, and employee-centric programs. This person will own and continuously improve the systems, processes, and operations that power our People function, helping us create an experience that enables employees to do their best work while supporting the company's rapid growth.
• • As a Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations, you will be responsible for owning and continuously improving the systems, processes, and operations that power our People function. This includes:
• • Vendor management: owning the recruiting tech stack end to end, evaluating and recommending new tooling, and serving as the technical escalation point for the recruiting team on systems issues.
• • Process and scale: auditing existing recruiting workflows, redesigning for scale, and building and maintaining recruiting metrics and reporting.
• • Team leadership: hiring, managing, coaching, and developing a high-performing team of Recruiting Coordinators.
• • Candidate experience: owning the end-to-end interview scheduling experience, driving initiatives that improve the candidate experience throughout the hiring process, and ensuring candidates, interviewers, and hiring managers receive timely communication and support.
• • Cross-functional partnership: partnering closely with Recruiters, Hiring Managers, HR, IT, Legal, and People Operations to support recruiting initiatives and ensure recruiting processes remain compliant with applicable employment laws and company policies.
• • What success looks like: first 90 days, complete a full audit of current tools/vendor contracts and deliver a consolidation or renewal recommendation; automated reporting to support Hiring Manager and Recruiter partnership; CPO reporting and visibility; automation and process improvements; ongoing reduction in time to fill, increase in candidate experience, better alignment between hiring managers and the business and stakeholders.
• • What you bring: 8-10+ years in recruiting operations, people analytics, or a hybrid ops/recruiting role, with experience managing vendor relationships and supporting contract negotiations; working knowledge of an ATS (Ashby a plus) and interview intelligence platforms, with the ability to own day-to-day administration and troubleshooting; experience contributing to or leading a process improvement that made a recruiting workflow more efficient or scalable; able to pull together a clear, data-backed recommendation when a tool should be consolidated or cut.
• • Compensation and values: at Horizon3, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and our compensation philosophy reflects this core value. We are committed to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and rewarded for their contributions. Our compensation structure is designed to be fair, competitive, and transparent, ensuring that every team member is recognized and compensated equitably across roles, levels, and locations.
• • Perks of Horizon3.ai: inclusive team, growth opportunities, innovative culture, hybrid & remote work, competitive compensation, and generous parental leave.
• • You belong here: Horizon3 is not just an equal opportunity employer - we are a community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental principles of our culture and success. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, hair length or any other legally protected status by law.