Recruiting Systems and Enablement Lead

About the Team

At OpenAI were building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. That mission depends on hiring exceptional people across research engineering product policy and operations at scale globally and with a high bar for quality.

The Recruiting Operations team provides the systems workflows and data foundation that power that hiring. Within Recruiting Operations the Systems & Enablement team owns the recruiting technology ecosystem ensuring our ATS offer workflows and connected tools are reliable well-governed and user centric.

We are building a team of Systems & Enablement Leads who together operate evolve and support the tooling ecosystem that runs hiring at OpenAI.

About the Role

As a Systems & Enablement Lead you will be one of the core owners of OpenAIs recruiting systems. Youll be responsible for a set of workflows tools and operational domains within our ATS and recruiting platform while partnering closely with recruiters coordinators People Analytics HR Operations Legal and IT.

This is a highly hands-on role for someone who enjoys being deep in systems while also driving clarity training and consistency across a large organization. Youll help ensure that recruiting teams can move fast within reliable systems and processes and that the data and workflows behind every hire are accurate and reliable.

What Youll Do

Operate and Improve Recruiting Systems

• Serve as an administrator for OpenAIs ATS (Ashby) and connected recruiting tools

• Configure and maintain recruiting workflows pipelines fields permissions and integrations for your assigned domains

• Partner with teammates on the Systems & Enablement team to maintain shared standards and coverage

• Work with vendors on support enhancements and feature adoption
  

Ensure Data Quality and Workflow Integrity

• Own the accuracy and completeness of data in your areas of the recruiting lifecycle

• Partner with People Analytics to ensure reporting fields and pipelines are trustworthy

• Design and implement guardrails that prevent incorrect or inconsistent data entry

• Audit and monitor recruiting systems to quickly surface and resolve issues.
  

Support and Troubleshoot

• Participate in the Recruiting Operations support queue (Slack and Jira)

• Troubleshoot complex system issues across tools permissions and integrations

• Collaborate with IT vendors and teammates to resolve problems quickly

• Turn recurring issues into durable fixes through configuration automation or documentation
  

Enablement & Change Management

• Create and maintain SOPs training and documentation for the workflows you own

• Lead enablement sessions and onboarding for recruiters and coordinators

• Support releases of new workflows features and policy updates

• Help ensure changes are adopted and understood across the organization

• Measure adoption and workflow health to ensure changes are landing as intended
  

Offer & Agreement Workflows

• Support offer and agreement processes and creation in partnership with Legal HR Ops and Compensation

• Maintain templates approvals and system logic that ensure offers are issued correctly

• Assist with complex or non-standard offers through governed workflows
  

Continuous Improvement

• Identify friction inefficiencies and scaling challenges in the system

• Propose and implement improvements that make recruiting faster more consistent and more reliable

• Stay current on tool capabilities and recommend ways to better use them
  
  

Were Looking For

• 5 years of experience in recruiting operations HR systems people technology or related roles

• Hands-on experience administering an ATS (Ashby strongly preferred)

• Strong understanding of recruiting workflows offers and hiring data

• Ability to balance detailed system work with user support and enablement

• Strong communication and stakeholder partnership skills

• Comfort working in fast-moving evolving environments
  

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting global or multi-entity hiring

• Familiarity with compliance-sensitive or highly regulated workflows

• Experience creating training and documentation for operational teams

• Experience working with analytics or downstream HR systems

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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