About the Role
MongoDB is seeking a Director or Senior Director of Global Recruiting Operations to lead the operating system behind our hiring engine. This role will own recruiting operations, analytics, program management, enablement, candidate experience, systems, and tooling, driving operational excellence and transformation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global Recruiting Operations function across systems and tools, analytics, project and program management, enablement, and candidate experience.
- Partner closely with the VP, Global Talent Acquisition and TA leadership to define how the function should operate, scale, and evolve.
- Build and strengthen operating mechanisms including planning rhythms, prioritization, decision forums, execution tracking, and performance visibility.
- Drive greater rigor in recruiting data, forecasting, headcount planning, capacity planning, and governance.
- Assess and improve the recruiting delivery model to increase speed, quality, scalability, and operating leverage.
- Lead the roadmap for AI, automation, and recruiting technology, including user experience, evolving functionality, workflow redesign, adoption, quality control, and measurable business impact.
- Evaluate and recommend recruiting systems, tools, and capabilities, and make informed decisions on technology selection and investment.
- Build and lead a high-performing team with clear ownership, strong standards, and a focus on simplification, consistency, and measurable results.
- Partner across Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, and business leadership to ensure recruiting operations supports hiring plans and broader business priorities.
Requirements
- Significant recruiting operations leadership experience in a scaled, complex, high-growth environment.
- Experience building, leading, or transforming a Recruiting Operations function at a company of similar size and complexity.
- Experience leading across multiple disciplines, including recruiting systems, analytics, program management, enablement, and service or candidate experience.
- Strong operating model instincts, including designing decision-making mechanisms, planning rhythms, accountability structures, and cross-functional governance.
- Deep familiarity with common and emerging recruiting technology stack tools and capabilities, including experience evaluating, selecting, and implementing systems and workflow solutions.
- Strong business acumen and comfort partnering with senior leaders on planning, prioritization, resource allocation, and tradeoff decisions.
- A high bar for data quality, operational rigor, and measurable outcomes, with experience translating fragmented data into actionable insight.
- Demonstrated experience leading change across recruiting organizations, including driving adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Practical fluency in AI and automation within recruiting or adjacent workflows, with sound judgment on where automation creates value and where human oversight remains critical.
- Strong people leadership skills, including building teams, clarifying scope, and developing leaders and managers.
- The ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and lead through transformation, not just steady-state optimization.
Location
- Austin TX
- New York NY
- Remote in the United States
Work Type
- Hybrid office
- Remote
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior Director
Salary/Compensations
- $109,000—$215,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Participation in the employee stock purchase program
- Flexible paid time off
- 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- 401(k) plan
- Mental health counseling
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Health benefits offerings
About the Company
- MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
- We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
- MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.
- Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
- With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
- Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
- To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone.
- From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.
Equal Opportunity
- MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process.
- To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
- MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
