# Recruiting Coordinator Lead, Applied

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $170K - $190K
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## 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

## Skills

### Required
- recruiting coordination
- recruiting operations
- strategic partnership
- data analysis
- process improvement
- stakeholder management
- communication
- coordination
- interview logistics
- operational gap analysis

### Nice to have
- hypergrowth
- process automation
- reporting
- operational optimization
- AI
- technology trends

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