Recruiting Coordinator, Technical

Job description

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Hiring the right people — especially at the executive level — is one of the most important ways we pursue this mission. We’re seeking a Recruiting Coordinator to join our team, focusing on the logistics and coordination of recruiting efforts for the Recruiting organization. This role will involve close collaboration with recruiters, sourcers, interviewers and hiring managers, ensuring operational excellence and a standout candidate experience. You will primarily be responsible for scheduling interviews, managing the logistics of onsite interviews, streamlining processes, and scaling programs. This role is a non-exempt, hourly position based on a 40-hour work week with potential for overtime earnings. About the Role As a Recruiting Coordinator, you will: - Take ownership of the scheduling process, end to end, for evergreen and opportunistic hiring needs. - Act as a partner for recruiting ops problems and help us find solutions through a mix of data, tools, and collaboration. - Greet candidates onsite in the office to provide a welcoming interview experience. - Be the primary scheduling and interview planner for various Recruiters and Hiring Managers across the Robotics team. - Use our tools like Ashby, Guide, ChatGPT, G-Suite, and others to uphold a timely and positive hiring experience and process. - Have the ability to problem solve and adapt to an ever-changing environment while maintaining confidentiality and discretion. - Manage clear, concise, timely, and professional communication with candidates and hiring partners in written and verbal form. - Handle candidate reimbursement & travel (domestic and international). - Work with our Executive Operations team to support and improve candidate experience and management of senior and executive level candidates. Qualifications: - 5+ years of recruiting coordination experience, including experience scaling processes and driving operational improvements across teams. - Are highly skilled in tools like Google Calendar, Guide, Ashby, Slack, and Notion with demonstrated ability to handle high-volume tasks efficiently. - Exhibit strong communication and interpersonal skills, especially when dealing with senior level candidates and stakeholders. - Are highly organized and able to prioritize tasks while adapting to changing demands. - Are detail-oriented and proactive in addressing challenges. - Possess a collaborative mindset and a willingness to enhance coordination processes. - Use discretion when working with senior and executive level candidates. Preferred Qualifications: - Broader knowledge of AI or technology trends to engage candidates effectively. - Advanced technical knowledge of tools used for process automation or optimization in recruiting. - Familiarity with interviewer training logistics, feedback workflows, or recruiting ops tooling. - A process improvement mindset — you’ve contributed to better systems, documentation, or team operations. Location & Workplace This role is based in our San Francisco office and we aren’t considering remote applications at this time. We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays. Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more. 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. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. 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