The opportunity
The Director of Recruiting Operations and Systems will lead the strategy, evolution, and execution of the technology, systems, and operating model that powers hiring across Datadog. This leader will oversee Recruiting Operations, Recruiting Technology, and AI Enablement for the recruiting team.
What you'll do
Define and execute the long-term goals and roadmap for how our recruiting: tech stack can best support and drive efficiency, including recruiting systems, integrations, AI capabilities, automation, and operational workflows.
Lead multidisciplinary teams to move us from a traditional recruiting: operations approach to a more progressive, AI-native approach.
Apply product management principles to continually gather user feedback and: use it to drive experimentation, new tool investments, and workflow improvements.
Establish responsible AI governance while driving automation initiatives that: improve recruiter productivity, hiring quality, and operational efficiency.
Partner with our People Analytics teams to ensure that the workflows in our: recruiting systems provide the data needed to drive critical business decisions and train recruiting teams on how to use these tools for better hiring partnerships.
Partner with Recruiting, Engineering, IT, Security, Finance, People: Technology, and executive stakeholders to drive platform adoption, continuous improvement, and organizational change, while ensuring that we continually comply with applicable laws and regulations governing the use of AI in hiring decisions globally.
What they're looking for
- Significant leadership experience driving enterprise-scale recruiting: operations, people technology, product management, business operations, or comparable platform organizations.
- Proven success leading complex technology, systems, or operational: transformation initiatives with measurable business impact.
- Strong experience managing recruiting vendors, maintaining awareness of the: solutions available in the market, and developing deep expertise in areas such as ATS configuration, Workday-to-Greenhouse connections and data flows, API issue resolution, integrations, and low-code agentic or workflow automation tools such as Workato.
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills with the ability to translate: data into product priorities and executive decisions. You should be able to spot trends in recruiting data and propose ways in which your team can provide support.
