Zendesk is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to work directly with the Vice President of our AI Agents and Knowledge products as well as their Product and Engineering leadership team to accelerate our innovation.
As Sr. Operations Manager you will lead efforts to ensure our Product Development team is collaborating efficiently and transparently with our design and engineering partners as well as cross-functional counterparts to remove friction and operational burdens. To start you will be responsible for operationalizing and scaling the hiring processes of this team to ensure we meet organizational growth and delivery targets.
This role requires expertise in SaaS Product Development and streamlining hiring practices. The ideal candidate has experience in B2B SaaS AI/ML or enterprise software development and has led initiatives to increase product quality and velocity.
Partner with the VP of AI Product to operationalize and scale hiring and onboarding processes aligned with organizational growth.
Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to identify and remove inefficiencies boosting team productivity for delivering reliable AI-driven solutions.
Design and implement scalable workflows and communication frameworks to enable seamless cross-functional collaboration across Product Engineering Design and other stakeholders.
Lead initiatives to enhance team health and performance through regular feedback resource planning and capacity management.
Support release planning and standardization to align product development cycles with business priorities.
Work with Recruiting HR and leadership to identify bottlenecks and optimize the candidate experience.
Develop and maintain hiring playbooks scorecards interview frameworks and onboarding documentation tailored for AI product and engineering roles.
Track analyze and report key hiring and staffing metrics (e.g. time-to-hire quality of hire team capacity) to the VP and leadership.
Facilitate continuous process improvements and structured feedback loops among recruiters hiring managers and staff to enhance hiring outcomes and team performance.
Act as a trusted operational partner to the VP managing day-to-day staff coordination without direct people management responsibilities.
Strong organizational and coordination skills with ability to support senior leadership in managing teams operationally.
Proven experience operationalizing talent acquisition and hiring processes in technology or SaaS environments.
Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally with recruiting HR product and engineering partners.
Data-driven with skills in tracking analyzing and reporting hiring and staffing metrics.
Familiarity with AI product roles and engineering hiring practices beneficial.
Experience in AI-driven SaaS or enterprise software highly desirable.
This individual contributor role offers a vital chance to operationalize hiring excellence and staff management support enabling Zendesks AI product and engineering organizations to scale and innovate successfully.
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The Poland annualized base salary range for this position is zł187000.00-zł281000.00. Please note that while the salary range represents the minimum and maximum base salary rate for this position the actual compensation offered will be based on job related capabilities applicable experience and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for bonus benefits or related incentives that will be communicated during the offer stage.Hybrid: In this role our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection collaboration learning and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
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