Talent & Operations

The role

You will set the gold standard for recruiting processes on the Squad platform. You will split your time between recruiting work and product/ops work to improve workflows and matchmaking quality.

What you will do

• Own the review of candidates for roles on Squad to increase matchmaking quality
• Catch strong profiles misclassified by the system
• Diagnose weak pipelines by analyzing drop-offs and issues in role definition or process
• Run intake and calibration conversations with hiring managers
• Capture structured feedback from candidates and clients
• Turn recruiting workflows into concrete product feedback for search and automation
• Partner with Product and Engineering to test new features and matching logic
• Help design and refine tagging, candidate review flows, and internal dashboards
• Develop and maintain internal playbooks for candidate review and pipeline rescue
• Share best practices with the external recruiter network

Required qualifications

• 3–7+ years of full‑cycle recruiting or embedded talent experience in high‑growth environments
• Proven track record turning ambiguous or hard‑to‑fill roles into successful hires
• Strong sourcing and screening chops
• Experience partnering directly with founders or senior hiring managers
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• High bias toward action

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity
• Health insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch at the office every day
• Dinner at the office after 7 pm

About the company

Squad uses AI to accelerate how the world's best talent finds the right problems to solve. The company is building an AI-first matchmaking engine to provide proprietary data and infrastructure for the recruiting industry.