OpenAI

Global Candidate Experience Manager

OpenAI
Posted 10/19/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $216,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates strong operations leadership in People Operations and Recruiting Operations, with a focus on managing high-volume operations and delivering complex, cross-functional programs. Capable of developing managers and program owners while utilizing practical AI experience to enhance workflows and service delivery.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Operations LeadershipHigh-Volume Operations ManagementCross-Functional Program DeliveryAI-Enabled Workflow DevelopmentCoaching and Development of Managers

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Manage and develop Candidate Experience managers and Interview Programs program managers
  • Support leads and coordinators through clear priorities, delegated decisions, timely feedback, and fair accountability
  • Review queues, walk through workflows, and gather direct team feedback
  • Diagnose system, capacity, and skill problems and lead selected projects
  • Own Candidate Experience service delivery across high-volume and confidential Executive/Research hiring
  • Improve scheduling, routing, handoffs, onsite experience, exception handling, and escalation boundaries
  • Build and maintain capacity models covering demand mix, handling time, productive hours, skills, regional coverage, leave, rework, and backlog recovery
  • Set priorities across Candidate Experience service and Interview Programs with recruiting leaders
  • Make staffing and service tradeoffs accounting for regional coverage, workforce continuity, interviewer bandwidth, and fair coordinator workloads
  • Drive programs and projects from problem definition through launch and sustained adoption
  • Own Interview Programs’ operating model, priorities, and delivery through accountable program owners
  • Oversee readiness, onboarding, calibration support, question governance, integrity escalation, and loop health
  • Shape and test practical AI-enabled workflows with Recruiting Optimization and People Technology
  • Use approved data, evaluation cases, human review, monitoring, and rollback
  • Measure improvements after review and rework and convert successful pilots into adopted processes
  • Run service-health reviews using queue age, SLA attainment, demand/capacity variance, scheduling efficiency, quality/rework, candidate feedback, and interviewer load
  • Partner with Recruiting, Executive Operations, People Technology, People Analytics, Workplace, IT, and HR Operations to remove cross-functional bottlenecks

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong operations leadership in People Operations, Recruiting Operations, or another operations function, with clear accountability for service quality and results
  • Experience managing high-volume operations in a high-growth environment
  • Experience adapting staffing, workflows, and priorities as demand and complexity increase
  • Experience delivering complex, cross-functional programs from problem definition through launch and sustained adoption
  • Experience managing and developing managers and program owners through coaching, delegation, feedback, and accountability
  • Hands-on execution and data-driven problem diagnosis
  • Practical AI experience: personally built, configured, or tested AI-enabled workflows
  • Ability to explain what improved, how AI workflows were evaluated, and what was learned
  • Experience with multi-region coverage or a mix of high-volume and confidential, bespoke hiring
  • Contingent-workforce planning, including vendor coordination, handoffs, and continuity through departures
  • Ashby and Guide experience, or experience with question governance, integrity escalation, and interviewer readiness

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays
  • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching
  • Wellness stipends
  • Overtime pay for non-exempt employees, consistent with applicable laws

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Hard Skills
Data-Driven Problem DiagnosisCapacity ModelingService Quality AccountabilityScheduling Efficiency ImprovementDemand/Coverage Planning
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationDelegationTimely FeedbackFair Accountability
Tools & Technologies
AshbyGuidePeople TechnologyPeople Analytics
Industry Keywords
Candidate ExperienceInterview ProgramsExecutive HiringConfidential HiringWorkforce Continuity