Recruiting Coordinator (Founding Talent Operations)

The role

You will serve as the operational engine of the Talent team by orchestrating interview logistics and candidate experiences. You will work with founders and executive leadership to build and scale recruiting operations and talent systems.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end interview coordination across complex, multi-stage pipelines.
• Serve as the primary, high-touch liaison for candidates.
• Partner with founders and executive team to optimize hiring bandwidth and protect calendars.
• Help design, automate, and scale the talent tech stack.
• Intervene in real-time when schedules break or urgent priorities collide.
• Maintain data integrity across recruiting systems and track pipeline metrics.

Required qualifications

• 1–3+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, executive administration, or talent operations within a fast-paced technology company, high-growth startup, or top-tier search firm.
• Highly proficient in modern tool stacks (e.g., Ashby / Greenhouse, Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Prelude).

Nice to have

• Prior experience at an early-stage / Series A–B venture-backed startup.
• A keen interest in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and enterprise autonomy.
• Experience building or iterating on interview rubrics, onboarding workflows, or talent analytics dashboards.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned to the markets where team members are based.
• Medical, dental, and vision.
• Additional support programs.

About the company

Arena is a platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. The team consists of researchers, academics, builders, and creatives from UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, and DeepMind.