Director, Recruiting - Operations & It

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Director of Recruiting focused on scaling Operations and IT organizations for a hypergrowth AI cloud company. This role involves building and executing hiring strategies, leading a recruiting team, and personally handling senior/executive searches. Requires extensive experience in Operations and IT recruiting, leadership, and scaling operations in a fast-paced environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. build and execute comprehensive hiring strategies
  2. lead and develop a high-performing recruiting team
  3. personally drive senior and executive-level searches
  4. partner closely with Operations, IT, Supply Chain, and Data Center leadership to forecast hiring needs, optimize recruiting performance, and deliver top-tier talent in a high-volume, high-growth environment
  5. This role blends strategy and execution, requiring both hands-on recruiting expertise and organizational leadership

Skills

Required

  • Operations and IT recruiting experience
  • recruiting leadership
  • hiring senior professional, director, and executive-level Operations and IT leaders
  • scaling recruiting operations in a high-growth, high-volume environment
  • leading recruiting organizations
  • recruiting for Supply Chain, Data Center, Infrastructure, and IT functions
  • Deep knowledge of Operations and IT organizational structures, technologies, and role requirements
  • sourcing platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and Gem
  • ATS platforms (e.g., Greenhouse)
  • leveraging recruiting analytics to improve time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, and quality of hire
  • forecasting hiring needs and workforce planning
  • influence and advise executive-level stakeholders
  • negotiation and offer-closing performance
  • supporting international recruiting and global hiring initiatives

Nice to have

  • recruiting within cloud, infrastructure technology, or data center environments
  • implementing sourcing automation and ATS enhancements
  • partnering with international teams to scale global hiring operations
  • driving diversity hiring initiatives at scale

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of Operations and IT recruiting experience
  • 5+ years in a recruiting leadership role
  • Proven track record of hiring senior professional, director, and executive-level Operations and IT leaders
  • Experience scaling recruiting operations in a high-growth, high-volume environment (500+ hires per year)
  • Experience leading recruiting organizations with 25+ direct and/or indirect reports
  • Demonstrated success recruiting for Supply Chain, Data Center, Infrastructure, and IT functions
  • Deep knowledge of Operations and IT organizational structures, technologies, and role requirements