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At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations to build the next generation of how Pinterest hires.
This is not a traditional recruiting operations role. We’re looking for a leader who understands Recruiting Ops not as a support function, but as the operating system for talent acquisition; one that is automated, scalable, compliant, inclusive, and built for constant innovation.
This role is for someone who doesn’t just optimize the process, they question whether the process should exist at all.
What you’ll do:
- Build the future-state operating model for Recruiting
- Define and lead a bold, multi-year vision for Recruiting Operations at Pinterest, centered on scale, automation, intelligence, and exceptional user experience.
- Reimagine how recruiting work gets done by identifying friction, eliminating low-value manual work, and redesigning workflows end-to-end.
- Build an AI-forward and automation-first operating model that enables recruiters to spend more time on high-judgment, high-impact work.
- Drive AI and automation across the recruiting lifecycle
- Identify opportunities to deploy AI and workflow automation across TA processes.
- Build practical, high-impact automations that improve speed, quality, consistency, and user experience for candidates, recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers.
- Champion experimentation and continuous learning, helping the TA organization adopt new tools confidently and thoughtfully.
- Optimize TA system operations and reporting
- Partner closely with People Tech and IT to ensure systems are integrated, scalable, secure, and designed to support both current and future hiring needs.
- Serve as the senior operational leader for recruiting tool operations, testing, adoption, and change management.
- Own recruiting operations reporting and dashboards while partnering with the People Analytics team on cross functional organization insights.
- Partner with TA leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to improve reporting processes and output mechanisms.
- Lead operational programs that are business-critical and compliant
- Own the operational strategy and execution for core TA programs including: background checks, employee referral program administration, etc.
- Ensure these programs are inclusive, scalable, compliant, and user-friendly.
- Partner with Legal, HR, Mobility/Immigration, and business stakeholders to strengthen controls while reducing unnecessary complexity.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience leading a Recruiting Operations team including significant experience managing recruiting systems and cross-functional programs.
- Proven experience transforming TA operations and systems in a high-growth, complex, or highly matrixed environment.
- Deep expertise with recruiting technologies such as ATS, CRM, scheduling, and reporting.
- Demonstrated success designing, implementing, or scaling AI-enabled workflows and program automation.
- Strong understanding of recruiting process design, systems architecture, data flows, controls, and change management.
- Experience owning or partnering closely on compliance-sensitive programs such as background checks, referrals, immigration/PERM, and internal mobility.
- Excellent judgment in balancing innovation with compliance, speed with quality, and automation with human experience.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust across Recruiting, People Tech, IT, Legal, and HR.
- A mindset that is curious, inventive, practical, and relentlessly improvement-oriented.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, or equivalent experience
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-3 times a year and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete
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