Recruiting Coordinator (Founding Talent Operations)

Arena
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: People, HR & TalentExperience: 1+ yearsSkills: ["High-agency ownership","Communication","Problem-solving","Attention to detail"]

Serve as the operational engine of the Talent team by owning end-to-end interview coordination for multi-stage pipelines, from technical challenges to founder debriefs. Act as a high-touch liaison for candidates, partner with founders and executives to protect hiring bandwidth and accelerate feedback loops, and build founding recruiting operations—designing and scaling recruiting workflows and tracking pipeline metrics for continuous improvement.

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Recruiting Coordinator (Founding Talent Operations)

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Job Summary

Serve as the operational engine of the Talent team by owning end-to-end interview coordination for multi-stage pipelines, from technical challenges to founder debriefs. Act as a high-touch liaison for candidates, partner with founders and executives to protect hiring bandwidth and accelerate feedback loops, and build founding recruiting operations—designing and scaling recruiting workflows and tracking pipeline metrics for continuous improvement.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: People, HR & Talent
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end interview coordination across complex, multi-stage recruiting pipelines, ensuring precision through scheduling, debriefs, and feedback loops.
  • •Deliver a seamless, transparent, high-touch candidate experience as the primary liaison for researchers and engineers.
  • •Partner directly with founders and executive leadership to optimize hiring bandwidth and hold hiring teams accountable for rapid feedback.
  • •Build and scale founding talent operations by designing and automating recruiting workflows and communications, including ATS workflows (Ashby/Greenhouse).
  • •Maintain operational rigor by tracking recruiting pipeline metrics (e.g., conversion rates and time-to-schedule) to identify and remove bottlenecks.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:MedicalDentalVision

Key Requirements

  • •1–3+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, executive administration, or talent operations in a fast-paced technology company or high-growth startup.
  • •Highly proficient with modern recruiting and productivity tools (e.g., Ashby/Greenhouse, Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Prelude).
  • •Executive presence and crisp communication, including the ability to align senior leaders and keep hiring velocity high.
  • •Strong systems and operations mindset for optimizing scheduling workflows and removing friction.
  • •Obsessed with detail and precision, including preventing typos, broken links, time zone issues, and dropped handoffs.
Experience:1+ years
Skills:High-agency ownershipCommunicationProblem-solvingAttention to detail
Tech Stack:AshbyGreenhouseGoogle WorkspaceSlackNotionPrelude

Company Brief

Arena
LMArena operates a community-driven platform for evaluating and benchmarking large language models via crowdsourced pairwise comparisons and leaderboards, used by researchers and AI labs to measure real-world model performance. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmarena?utm_source=openai))
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2025
WebsiteLinkedIn