People Analytics Lead - Recruiting

Notion Notion · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · People

This role is for a People Analytics Lead focused on Recruiting at Notion. The primary responsibility is to build and maintain recruiting analytics infrastructure, including funnel conversion, pipeline aging, time-to-fill, and offer acceptance. The role involves translating hiring targets into pipeline models, defining core recruiting metrics, and partnering with Recruiting and Finance to improve the recruiting system. The candidate will also use AI to accelerate their work in areas like query iteration and insight narratives. The role requires strong SQL, data modeling, and quantitative modeling skills, with a focus on being a strategic partner. While AI fluency is mentioned as a daily multiplier, the core function is not AI model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own recruiting analytics end-to-end: Build and maintain the dashboards and reporting infrastructure Recruiting leadership relies on (funnel health, conversion rates by stage, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, pipeline aging, interview/interviewer effectiveness, and recruiter capacity) — real-time, self-serve, and trusted.
  2. Build headcount + velocity models: Translate hiring targets into pipeline math (volume needed by stage, ETA to close, roles trending behind plan) and tie it to recruiter capacity and prioritization — so leaders see issues early and know what to do about them.
  3. Make talent data decision-grade: Define core recruiting metrics and their definitions, document them, and build toward a single source of truth the team can align on.
  4. Bring signal to pipeline leadership reviews: Show up to pipeline reviews and QBRs with crisp analysis and a recommendation (where the bottleneck is, what changed, what to test next), not just a slide deck.
  5. Improve the recruiting system: Use data to spot where process, calibration, or prioritization is creating drag — and partner with Recruiting and Finance to fix it.

Skills

Required

  • Proven ability to build analytics that gets used
  • Strong SQL + data modeling judgment
  • Quantitative modeling for recruiting problems
  • Strategic partner instincts
  • AI-fluent, with good taste
  • Build in Notion

What the JD emphasized

  • Build and maintain the dashboards and reporting infrastructure Recruiting leadership relies on
  • Build headcount + velocity models
  • Make talent data decision-grade
  • Bring signal to pipeline leadership reviews
  • Improve the recruiting system
  • Proven ability to build analytics that gets used
  • Strong SQL + data modeling judgment
  • Quantitative modeling for recruiting problems
  • Strategic partner instincts
  • AI-fluent, with good taste