Recruiting Operations Specialist (Contract)

We’re looking for a highly organized and proactive Recruiting Operations Specialist to support our Talent team in delivering an exceptional candidate experience. In this role, you’ll work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates to schedule interviews and keep our hiring processes running smoothly and efficiently.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-paced, high-growth startup and play a key role in our mission to attract world-class talent.

What you’ll do

• Own interview scheduling across multiple time zones, keeping candidates, hiring managers, and interviewers aligned.

• Be a first point of contact for candidates, providing timely updates and a professional experience.

• Maintain accurate data in Ashby and prepare recurring reports for the Talent team.

• Identify bottlenecks in our workflows and help implement improvements, including automation.

• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to align on scheduling priorities.

What we’re looking for

• 1+ years of experience as a recruiting coordinator, executive assistant or in a similar scheduling-heavy role

• Hands-on experience with an ATS (Ashby preferred) and Google Calendar

• Strong organization, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing deadlines

• Fluent written and spoken English

• A service-minded approach to candidates and internal stakeholders

• Availability to overlap with US working hours

About the Team:

• Our talent team is fully remote, embracing async communication and collaboration through Slack channels, thorough documentation, and proactive updates to keep work moving forward smoothly across time zones.

• We’re committed to structured alignment, holding weekly hiring syncs for each role, weekly team sourcing syncs, and bi-weekly team meetings to ensure everyone is on the same page and to solve challenges collectively.

• Driven by a dedication to our craft, we continuously refine our best practices and data quality to deliver an exceptional experience for both internal stakeholders and candidates, supported by precise, reliable reporting.

• As a globally distributed team, we operate across various time zones, yet most of us overlap for collaboration and meetings between 7am-12pm PST, bringing flexibility and resilience to our work routines.

• All team members, regardless of location, maintain at least a 4-hour overlap with PST business hours to enable real-time collaboration and drive solutions effectively across the team.

Learn about TRM Speed in this position:

• Within 72 hours of receiving a position, you attend the intake meeting prepared with a Total Addressable Market (TAM) overview and 5-10 sample profiles to review with the hiring team.

• Within 48 hours of receiving initial candidate feedback, you refine search criteria based on the hiring team’s insights, then, within 24 hours, create A/B outreach messaging to engage targeted profiles and aim to source 100 candidates within the first week.

• While sourcing externally, you identify 5 team members at TRM with relevant networks, proactively reaching out via Slack to schedule a "sourcing jam" with the recruiter to explore potential referrals.

• Two weeks after the initial outreach, you analyze sourcing data to identify what is and isn’t driving conversions. You share your insights and recommendations with the hiring team to refine and optimize the outreach strategy, and you continue to monitor and adjust the approach until the position is filled.

• Recruiter Intro: Qualifications, motivations, and alignment with the role.

• Accelerate repeatable workflows

• Structure and solve problems

• Improve output quality

• Increase speed and leverage

At TRM, you should expect:

• Priorities and targets to change quickly

• Operating with a high degree of ambiguity

• Close collaboration across teams and functions

• Frequent, high-touch communication

• Creative problem-solving and out-of-the-box thinking

• Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.