Recruiting Program Manager

This is a high-impact, foundational 'build' opportunity for a strategic operator to shape the future of MongoDB Recruiting Operations.

As a key partner to TA Leadership, the Recruiting Program Manager will act as the process architect responsible for designing, deploying, and governing the operational infrastructure that will allow us to scale. This role requires a blend of deep recruiting domain expertise, strategic program design, and a relentless pursuit of operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities and Focus Areas:

Process Architecture & Operational Governance

• Design, Drive and Enable MongoDB’s next phase of recruiting excellence, defining the standards and methodologies for how we hire across the organization


• Move the function from unstructured practices to rigorous, standardized excellence by implementing core methodologies, including structured interviewing, referral programs and candidate experience


• Establish effective workflows and govern process adherence, auditing the recruiting lifecycle to ensure consistency, compliance, and quality control across all hiring teams


• Identify opportunities to introduce new tooling or automation and implementation strategies to support process goals

Strategic Workforce Planning & Business Alignment

• Partner with the Director of Recruiting Operations as the critical bridge between Talent Acquisition and Finance/FP&A, maturing the organization’s approach to headcount forecasting, capacity modeling, and position management


• Partner with Recruiting Leaders to translate high-level business goals into actionable hiring plans, ensuring a clear, data-backed view of pipeline health versus capacity


• Drive the evolution of workforce planning from basic spreadsheets to a sophisticated, integrated business function, empowering leadership with the insights needed to make agile operational decisions

Program Innovation & Experience Design

• Architect and mobilize a comprehensive global referral strategy from the ground up, defining policy, incentives, and internal marketing to drive high-quality organic growth


• Own the end-to-end candidate experience strategy, mapping candidate journeys and implementing feedback loops (surveys, data analysis) to ensure a premium, consistent, and respectful experience for all applicants


• Serve as a trusted advisor to the business on change management, ensuring that new programs and processes are not just launched, but effectively socialized and adopted by cross-functional stakeholders

Enablement & Continuous Improvement

• Partner deeply with the Enablement team to codify best practices into accessible playbooks, training materials, and documentation


• Continuously audit and stress-test the recruiting machine, proactively identifying bottlenecks and designing solutions that increase velocity without sacrificing quality

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a builder: 6-8+ years of experience in recruiting with a track record of designing and launching complex recruiting programs from scratch (e.g., referrals, structured interviewing) in a greenfield or high-growth environment ("0 to 1" experience is essential)


• Deep Talent Acquisition expertise: You possess a sophisticated understanding of the full recruiting lifecycle and the nuances of candidate assessment, acting not just as a program manager, but as a subject matter expert


• Strategic influence and autonomy: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to operate independently to leadership, building credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing change without direct authority


• Process architecture skills: Experience implementing advanced hiring methodologies (Pool Interviewing, Competency-Based Assessments, Referral Programs) and creating the operational rigor required to sustain them


• Financial and operational acumen: Demonstrated ability to partner with Finance/FP&A to help drive workforce planning, forecasting, and position management initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting processes specifically leveraging Greenhouse and Gem


• Change Management Certification: Prosci, CCMP or Six Sigma


• Project Management Certification (PMP) or Agile/Scrum experience

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 database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—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, 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.

Req ID: 4263331299