Hiring Experience and Operations Manager

ABOUT SANDBOXAQ SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. THE OPPORTUNITY The SandboxAQ Recruiting team is an exceptional group of Recruiters, Sourcers, and Coordinators dedicated to scaling a team of elite scientists, engineers, and business leaders. We operate at the intersection of cutting-edge science and advanced AI, and we believe that finding and hiring the world's best talent requires a seamless, world-class experience at every touchpoint. We are seeking a Hiring Experience and Operations Manager to join our Recruiting team. This role is central to building a top-tier Recruitment Engine that blends advanced automation with human-centric design. You will own the holistic hiring experience across all audiences: candidates, interviewers, hiring managers, stakeholders, and the recruiting team itself. Thriving in our fast-paced environment means being agile and ready to tackle whatever comes your way. You will lead a team of Recruiting Coordinators and act as a strategic partner to a wide variety of stakeholders. You will pioneer the integration of AI to maximize operational efficiency, drive our talent branding, and roll up your sleeves to provide Recruiting support when needed. Why you’ll enjoy this job: - Drive Transformative Innovation: Modernize our recruiting operations by deploying advanced automation and AI-driven workflows to maximize team productivity and operational efficiency. - Total Ownership: Architect the end-to-end hiring experience, ensuring our ecosystem and workflows showcase the best of SandboxAQ in every candidate and stakeholder interaction. - Ecosystem Leadership: Lead a vital team of Recruiting Coordinators while acting as a trusted advisor to cross-functional leaders, driving holistic hiring enablement and elevating our overall talent strategy. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Recruiting Infrastructure and Analytics: Manage and optimize our recruiting tech stack to maximize the effectiveness, efficiency, and output of our team, and ensure our tooling streamlines workflows, captures high-fidelity hiring signals, and helps us measure the candidate experience and long-term quality of hire. - Holistic Experience & Enablement: Own the end-to-end hiring journey for all stakeholders, leveraging a world-class experience as a strategic advantage in our hiring efforts. Partner closely with HR, Finance, onboarding, and immigration to build seamless workflows and proactively triage complex operational issues. You will optimize processes from headcount planning to offer execution, manage interviewer load balancing, and spearhead enablement programs to ensure our teams assess talent effectively. - Team Leadership: Lead and grow a team of high-performing Recruiting Coordinators, ensuring the flawless execution of complex interview scheduling, travel arrangements, and on-site candidate experiences. Lead from the front by rolling up your sleeves to provide extra capacity across the team, whether that means stepping in as a Recruiter on open positions, resolving unique candidate issues, or assisting with high-profile coordination needs. - Employer Branding & Strategic Partnerships: Drive global talent branding and craft a compelling employer value proposition that positions SandboxAQ as a premier destination for elite frontier-tech talent. Spearhead our campus recruiting strategy and cultivate deep relationships with key universities and industry communities. ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE - Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruiting Operations, or a similar function, with 1+ years of direct people management experience. - Operational Excellence & Tooling Strategy: Proven track record of optimizing recruitment workflows and tech stacks. Demonstrated ability to integrate automation or AI tools that drastically improve team efficiency and enhance candidate signal capture. - Data-Driven & Analytical Rigor: Strong analytical skills with the ability to measure hiring experience metrics, validate the effectiveness of evaluation criteria, manage interviewer load, and translate recruiting data into actionable insights on the quality of hire. - Exceptional Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Highly collaborative with a proven ability to build strong partnerships with HR, Finance, and hiring managers to streamline operations. Experience building and delivering interviewer training, hiring manager enablement, and structuring smooth, highly-calibrated assessment processes. - Startup Agility & Execution: A builder’s mindset with the willingness and capability to dive into the trenches and manage full-cycle recruiting—from sourcing to closing talent—whenever business capacity demands it. HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE - Frontier Technology and/or Startup Experience: Prior experience navigating the high-velocity, ambiguous landscape of venture-backed deep-tech or AI startups. - AI Tooling Fluency: Hands-on experience building, testing, or deploying next-generation AI recruiting tools to elevate operational output and interview intelligence. - Employer Branding Expertise: Demonstrated history of successfully designing and launching talent branding campaigns, campus strategies, career pages, or tech-focused recruitment marketing materials. - Foundation in Recruiting/Sourcing: Prior experience as a full-cycle Recruiter or Technical Sourcer. You deeply understand the day-to-day realities, workflows, and challenges of the recruitment lifecycle you are managing and optimizing. WHY JOIN US? We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. - Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation. - Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits. - Work-Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance. - Career Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs. SANDBOXAQ WELCOMES ALL We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. Read: Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews https://www.sandboxaq.com/ai-in-interviews