Recruiting Operations

About the Role

You’ll be the operational backbone behind Mercor’s engineering hiring engine. You will partner directly with at lease one technical recruiter to jointly own a portfolio of requisitions from initial intake through offer and onboarding.

In this role, your recruiter partner owns candidate execution and closing; you own the infrastructure, systems, candidate experience, analytics, and process rigor that make high-velocity hiring possible. Together, you operate as a strategic pair responsible for quality, speed, and continuous improvement across your reqs.

Our team works 6 days per week (5 days in-office in SF).

What You’ll Do

Own End-to-end Recruiting Operations

• Drive scheduling and coordination across screens, take-homes, onsites, debriefs, and offers.
• Ensure interview loops are structured, calibrated, and frictionless for both candidates and interviewers.
• Maintain pristine ATS hygiene and candidate tracking across every stage.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and unblock processes before they escalate.

Partner as a Strategic Recruiting Pair

• Collaborate closely with a dedicated technical recruiter to co-own a set of requisitions.
• Participate in intake discussions, funnel diagnostics, and prioritization decisions.
• Ensure alignment between sourcing volume, interview capacity, and hiring goals.
• Serve as the operational counterweight to recruiter execution.

Improve & Implement Process

• Design and implement lifecycle improvements across screening, onsite structure, feedback loops, and offer workflows.
• Run pilots on new interview formats, tooling, automation, or candidate experience upgrades.
• Standardize documentation, templates, rubrics, and workflows.
• Build scalable systems that reduce interviewer load while increasing signal quality.

Track Analytics & Funnel Health

• Monitor conversion rates across stages and identify drop-offs.
• Analyze scheduling velocity, interviewer bandwidth, and pipeline health.
• Surface insights to hiring managers and leadership.
• Maintain dashboards and structured reporting for hiring syncs.

Elevate Candidate Experience

• Ensure high-touch, thoughtful communication at every stage.
• Anticipate logistical friction and resolve it before candidates feel it.
• Maintain a consistent, premium experience for senior technical candidates.
• Support post-offer touchpoints and onboarding warm-up logistics as needed.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Engineering, interviewers, and leadership to maintain alignment on hiring goals.
• Help run hiring syncs, retros, and process audits.
• Coordinate across recruiters to ensure consistency across roles and teams.

What We’re Looking for

• 1-4 years of experience in recruiting coordination, recruiting operations, talent ops, or high-volume scheduling roles.
• Exceptional organizational rigor and attention to detail.
• Strong systems thinker; you naturally see inefficiencies and redesign them.
• Comfort managing multiple fast-moving requisitions simultaneously.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret funnel data and identify improvement opportunities.
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication.
• Experience working closely with recruiters or hiring managers in a high-growth environment.
• High ownership mentality; you operate as if the hiring outcomes are yours.

Bonus

• Experience supporting engineering or technical hiring.
• Familiarity with ATS systems and automation tools.
• Experience running process experiments or pilots.

Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k Relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• Free Equinox membership
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance