Lead, Candidate Experience
- Pay
- $53,000 – $105,000 per year
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Listed
- Today
What You'll Do
Lead candidate-experience operations
- Lead and develop the North America Candidate Experience team, setting expectations, coaching, and managing performance and workload, while overseeing day-to-day operations (interview scheduling, offer and requisition approvals, ticket support, escalations) and partnering with Recruiting, Recruiting Operations, and global colleagues.
Own global candidate-experience program delivery
- Own assigned global programs end to end, including work plans, cross-regional coordination, change adoption, and impact reporting, in partnership with the Manager, Candidate Experience.
Improve the end-to-end candidate journey
- Use candidate and stakeholder feedback to identify and fix recurring friction in scheduling, communication, and recruiting handoffs, applying automation where it improves the experience.
Use insight to guide action
- Track service and experience measures (scheduling turnaround, accuracy, escalations, workload, candidate feedback) and turn them into clear recommendations for leadership.
What You Bring
Required
- Experience in candidate experience, recruiting coordination, recruiting operations, talent acquisition, program operations, or a closely related field.
- A track record of leading projects or programs through planning, partner alignment, execution, and follow-through.
- Strong operational judgment and experience improving processes, managing competing priorities, and resolving issues in a fast-paced environment.
- The ability to use operational information and qualitative feedback to identify problems, make recommendations, and explain trade-offs.
- Clear, thoughtful communication and the ability to build productive relationships across teams, functions, and time zones.
Preferred
- Experience leading or supporting candidate-experience programs across multiple regions or functions.
- Experience coaching colleagues, coordinating team workload, or providing day-to-day team leadership. Formal people-management experience is valued if relevant to the final scope of the role.
- Experience establishing service standards, operating measures, reporting routines, or capacity-planning practices.
- Familiarity with recruiting and collaboration tools such as Greenhouse, Guide, Goodtime, Zendesk, Slack, reporting tools, or workflow automation.
- Experience partnering with Recruiting Operations, People Operations, HR, or other cross-functional teams.
Mongodb's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is
$53,000 - $105,000 USD
About Mongodb
MongoDB is looking for a thoughtful, operationally strong leader to elevate the candidate experience across North America and deliver global candidate-experience programs. In this role, you will lead regional service operations while owning the planning and execution of assigned programs that improve the candidate journey.
You will report to the Manager, Candidate Experience, and work closely with regional colleagues, recruiters, hiring teams, and cross-functional partners.You will turn priorities into clear plans, keep work moving across teams and time zones, identify risks early, and share progress and recommendations with Recruiting leadership. The right person brings a candidate-first mindset, sound operational judgment, and the ability to create structure in a fast-moving environment.
This role can be based out of our New York City or Austin offices, or remotely in the NORAM region.
About Mongodb
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB's unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It's what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it's like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB's base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package.
Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings.
Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
From Mongodb's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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