Recruiting Operations Manager

About Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo.

About The Role

Applied Intuition is looking for a Recruiting Operations Manager to lead the coordination, systems, and process infrastructure behind our recruiting function. This is a hands-on role: you will manage a team of recruiting coordinators, own the day-to-day health of our recruiting systems, and build the operational strategy that lets recruiting scale cleanly as the business grows. You will work cross-functionally with Recruiting Teams and People Operations to make sure the strategy and processes you build benefit every team across the greater People organization, not just recruiting.

• You will define and implement operational strategies for recruiting that hold up in a fast-paced, scaling organization, then translate strategy into documented, repeatable processes.
• You are responsible for data hygiene across recruiting systems — clean requisition data, accurate candidate and pipeline records, and consistent reporting inputs the broader People team can rely on.
• You will build and document processes with an eye toward future SOX compliance, applying the rigor and auditability expected of a publicly traded company even before it’s required.
• You will work as a close partner to People Operations on shared responsibilities, including offer letter management and background checks, ensuring clean handoffs and no dropped details between teams.
• You will lead, manage, and develop a team of recruiting coordinators, recruiting operations specialists, and recruiting systems members to the standard for operational excellence and consistency across the function.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of experience in recruiting operations, with hands-on experience in recruiting coordination and recruiting systems.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Direct experience operating in fast-paced, scaling organizations, building operational strategies that hold up as headcount and hiring volume grow.
• Proven experience building and documenting processes that are repeatable and support data hygiene across recruiting systems.
• Recruiting programs experience.
• Experience working closely with People Operations as a shared partner on offer letter management and background checks.

Nice To Have

• Experience with Ashby and ModernLoop specifically.
• Experience and proficiency with Ashby, Workday, and Google Workspace.
• Experience in publicly traded companies, particularly building or supporting processes with future SOX compliance considerations in mind.

Compensation Range

$160K - $200K