Founding Recruiting Operations Coordinator - APJ

The role

This person will support recruiting and people operations across international markets. They will coordinate interviews, manage candidate experiences, and assist with onboarding and offboarding processes.

What you will do

• Coordinate and schedule interviews across APAC, Japan and MENA
• Serve as a primary point of contact for candidates across international markets
• Ensure a consistent and high quality candidate experience
• Track candidate progress in the ATS
• Support recruiters with interview logistics, feedback collection, and offer coordination
• Support onboarding for new hires across MENA and APAC
• Assist with offboarding processes and employee lifecycle updates
• Maintain accurate employee data across HR systems
• Support compliance tracking
• Help operationalise global people policies

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or a related discipline
• 1–3 years of experience in recruiting coordination and operations
• Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Comfortable working with ATS and HRIS platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Professional, discreet, and confident working with confidential information
• Adaptable, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast paced, global environment

Nice to have

• Experience supporting multiple regions or working across time zones
• Ashby

Benefits

• International exposure
• Direct partnership with global People and Talent leadership
• Involvement in scaling a world class AI company globally
• Strong scope for role expansion as international operations grow

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. They are the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.