Hiring Experience and Operations Manager
Remote · 1+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About SandboxAQ
- SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
- We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
- At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
About the role
- The SandboxAQ Recruiting team is seeking a Hiring Experience and Operations Manager to join the team and own the holistic hiring experience across all audiences.
- This role is central to building a top-tier Recruitment Engine that blends advanced automation with human-centric design.
- You will lead a team of Recruiting Coordinators, act as a strategic partner to a wide variety of stakeholders, and pioneer the integration of AI to maximize operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Manage and optimize our recruiting tech stack to maximize the effectiveness, efficiency, and output of our team.
- Ensure our tooling streamlines workflows, captures high-fidelity hiring signals, and helps us measure candidate experience and long-term quality of hire.
- Own the end-to-end hiring journey for all stakeholders, leveraging a world-class experience as a strategic advantage in our hiring efforts.
- Partner closely with HR, Finance, onboarding, and immigration to build seamless workflows and proactively triage complex operational issues.
- Optimize processes from headcount planning to offer execution, manage interviewer load balancing, and spearhead enablement programs to ensure our teams assess talent effectively.
- Lead and grow a team of high-performing Recruiting Coordinators, ensuring the flawless execution of complex interview scheduling, travel arrangements, and on-site candidate experiences.
- Lead from the front by rolling up your sleeves to provide extra capacity across the team, stepping in as a Recruiter on open positions, resolving unique candidate issues, or assisting with high-profile coordination needs.
- Drive global talent branding and craft a compelling employer value proposition that positions SandboxAQ as a premier destination for elite frontier-tech talent.
- Spearhead our campus recruiting strategy and cultivate deep relationships with key universities and industry communities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruiting Operations, or a similar function
- 1+ years of direct people management experience
- Proven track record of optimizing recruitment workflows and tech stacks
- Demonstrated ability to integrate automation or AI tools that drastically improve team efficiency and enhance candidate signal capture
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to measure hiring experience metrics, validate the effectiveness of evaluation criteria, manage interviewer load, and translate recruiting data into actionable insights on the quality of hire
- Highly collaborative with a proven ability to build strong partnerships with HR, Finance, and hiring managers to streamline operations
- Experience building and delivering interviewer training, hiring manager enablement, and structuring smooth, highly-calibrated assessment processes
- A builder’s mindset with the willingness and capability to dive into the trenches and manage full-cycle recruiting—from sourcing to closing talent—whenever business capacity demands it
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Performance-based incentives or bonuses
- Equity participation
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
- Retirement savings with company matching
- Paid parental leave
- Inclusive family-building benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Company-wide seasonal breaks
- Support for flexible work arrangements
Skills
- AI Tools
- Full-Cycle Recruiting
