Talent Acquisition Operations Leader

Who We Are

Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone.

At Aurora, you'll solve massively complex problems alongside other passionate, smart people, growing as an expert while broadening your field of knowledge. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.

We're seeking a Talent Acquisition Operations Leader to play a pivotal role in rebuilding our Talent Acquisition (TA) infrastructure. This position offers the opportunity to design and implement strategies that will enhance our current recruitment strategies and prepare our hiring infrastructure to enable business scale. If you are a builder, this is a unique opportunity to re-think hiring processes, systems, workflows, and methodologies from the ground up and work with a team of incredible humans that is making autonomous technology a reality. If you're excited about driving change in a dynamic environment and this role resonates with you, we encourage you to apply. Let's build together.

In this role, you will

• Optimize Processes: Design and refine recruitment workflows to enhance efficiency and ensure compliance while creating seamless experiences for candidates, recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers.
• Manage Technology: Oversee Talent Acquisition software and systems and own the exploration of efficiency opportunities within TA workflows that enable our recruiting team to scale effectively while fostering creativity, productivity, and customer-centricity.
• TA Data Architecture and Analytics: Own the architecture of our TA data framework. Assess whether we're tracking the right data to gain insights that inform hiring decisions and strengthen our partnership with the business. Once the architecture is established, ensure its effective operationalization within our tools and workflows, promoting consistent adoption across the TA team.
• TA Enablement: Drive consistent adoption of TA practices and processes across the organization. You'll own training, enablement, and education initiatives for the TA team and the broader hiring ecosystem (interviewers, hiring managers). You'll also establish clear accountability mechanisms to ensure adoption and ongoing effectiveness.
• Ensure Compliance: Maintain adherence to legal and organizational standards across all recruitment activities, staying informed about employment laws and implementing best practices to uphold compliance.
• Manage Vendors: Coordinate with external recruitment partners and technology providers to support our hiring needs, building strong partnerships that enhance our recruitment capabilities.
• Budget Management: Partner closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition for function budget management, supporting thoughtful allocation of resources, strategic investment in tools and technologies, and alignment with overall business priorities.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: You will work closely with the broader People team to ensure TA processes and workflows are cohesive with overall operations, accelerating our collective talent impact - you make the recruiting team stronger partners to our business. 

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition Operations, Recruiting Operations, HR Operations, or related fields, preferably within tech or high-growth environments with demonstrated progression and ownership in TA operations roles.
• Strong analytical skills, enabling you to architect robust TA data frameworks, interpret recruitment data effectively, derive actionable insights, and translate these insights into meaningful improvements to hiring processes and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated expertise designing and managing complex recruitment workflows, ATS, data analytics, and operational excellence.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to clearly articulate ideas, insights, and strategies across diverse audiences.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills, naturally building partnerships and proactively collaborating across teams to drive alignment and results.

Desirable Qualifications 

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