Description
Compensation
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $170K - $190K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and the following benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
About the Team
OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Recruiting Coordination team plays a critical role in ensuring a world-class candidate and stakeholder experience throughout the hiring process.
About the Role
As a Recruiting Coordinator Lead, you will lead scalable recruiting coordination practices across multiple technical business functions and hiring pipelines, ensuring operations are efficient, consistent, and candidate-first. You will act as a strategic partner on recruiting operations challenges, helping identify scalable solutions through data, tools, process improvements, and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities:
- Lead scalable recruiting coordination practices across multiple technical business functions and hiring pipelines
- Act as a strategic partner on recruiting operations challenges
- Partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, recruiting leadership, and Executive Operations teams to support hiring goals and drive operational excellence
- Act as a trusted operational lead within the coordination organization
- Support interviewer enablement efforts, including interviewer training logistics, onboarding coordination, interviewer pool management, and load balancing support
- Use tools such as Ashby, Guide, ChatGPT, Google Workspace, Slack, Navan, Reimbi, and Notion to support a timely, efficient, and high-quality hiring experience
- Manage professional, timely, and candidate-first communication with candidates and stakeholders
- Coordinate onsite interview logistics, candidate travel, and reimbursement processes
- Identify systemic operational gaps, conduct root-cause analysis, and recommend scalable improvements
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of recruiting coordination, recruiting operations, or related experience in fast-paced or high-growth environments
- 1.5+ years of experience managing or leading recruiting coordinators, contingent workforce teams, or recruiting operations in a high-volume environment
- Significant experience supporting multiple technical business functions and hiring teams with varying operational needs and stakeholder styles
- Proven expertise managing high-volume and complex technical scheduling
- Experience supporting interviewer load balancing strategies or recruiting capacity planning efforts
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Demonstrated track record of improving coordination workflows, operational processes, or recruiting systems at scale
- Expertise with tools such as Google Calendar, Guide, Ashby, Slack, Notion, Navan, Reimbi, and Google Workspace
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting hypergrowth or rapidly scaling recruiting organizations
- Advanced technical knowledge of tools used for process automation, reporting, or operational optimization in recruiting
- Broader knowledge of AI or technology trends and enthusiasm for OpenAI's mission
- Strong process improvement mindset with experience contributing to scalable systems, operational consistency, or improved team workflows