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Recruiting Operations Specialist

Outset · San Francisco · Remote

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About Outset

Get the depth of qualitative interviews at the speed and scale of a survey with the power of AI-moderated research. Make better, faster decisions for your business. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Maintain accurate candidate, requisition, interview, and hiring-process data in the applicant tracking system (ATS). Set up and maintain job postings, interview plans, candidate communications, offer documentation, and recruiting templates.

What they're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience in, recruiting operations, event coordination, or related role
  • Experience coordinating multiple schedules, stakeholders, deadlines, or events in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail
  • Ability to manage competing priorities, solve problems quickly, and remain calm when plans change
  • Comfort using spreadsheets, calendar tools, video-conferencing platforms, and collaboration tools: Google Workspace, Slack, and Ashby
  • Ability to handle confidential candidate and employee information with care and discretion
More about this role

Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.

Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.

The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.

Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.

The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.

We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.

We’re looking for a highly organized, candidate-focused Recruiting Operations Specialist to help our Talent Acquisition team run efficient, thoughtful, and scalable hiring processes.

This role will combine day-to-day recruiting operations with hands-on support for recruiting...

Read the full posting on Outset's site ↗

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