Contract recruiting operations specialist

As our Contract Recruiting & Talent Operations Specialist, you will be a key driver of how Thrive Global grows. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role that combines candidate sourcing, recruiting coordination, and stakeholder management. You'll work closely with hiring managers across the company to understand their talent needs, identify promising candidates, and manage the recruiting process from initial outreach through offer acceptance.

You'll be the person who keeps everything moving, anticipating bottlenecks, following through on details, and ensuring candidates and hiring teams have what they need at every stage. We're open to candidates with backgrounds in recruiting, talent acquisition, HR, or operations who have demonstrated strong sourcing, coordination, and project management capabilities.

How You’ll Contribute

This role blends hands-on recruiting execution with close partnership across the business. You will keep hiring moving quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and candidate experience.

Source & Engage

• Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, sourcing criteria, and ideal candidate profiles.
• Proactively identify potential candidates using LinkedIn, online platforms, referrals, and creative sourcing strategies.
• Present qualified candidate profiles to hiring managers, gather feedback, and refine searches accordingly.
• Coordinate candidate outreach and maintain an active pipeline for current and anticipated hiring needs.

Own Recruiting Operations

• Manage recruiting workflows from candidate identification through offer acceptance, ensuring each step is completed accurately and on time.
• Coordinate interviews, candidate communications, feedback collection, and hiring decisions.
• Maintain clean, accurate, and up-to-date ATS data to support reporting and compliance, including accurate candidate records, interview notes, and recruiting documentation.
• Track and report on pipeline health, time-to-fill, and other key recruiting metrics.
• Prepare interview packets and ensure hiring managers and executives have relevant candidate information ahead of interviews.
• Track pipeline progress, flag bottlenecks, and provide regular recruiting status updates.

Partner & Align

• Build strong working relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders across the company.
• Proactively follow up on outstanding actions, feedback, and decisions to keep searches progressing.
• Collaborate with the People team, Finance, and leadership on headcount priorities and offer approvals.
• Help refine job descriptions, sourcing strategies, and interview processes based on hiring manager feedback and market insights.
• Adapt quickly to changing priorities and urgent hiring needs in a fast-paced environment.
• Identify opportunities to streamline recruiting workflows and improve the candidate and hiring manager experience.

Who You Are

• A relationship builder who earns trust quickly with hiring managers and candidates alike.
• Resourceful and scrappy: You find creative ways to solve problems and don't need a detailed playbook to get started.
• Energized by a fast-paced environment; you stay organized, adaptable, and calm as priorities shift.
• Highly organized: You keep track of moving pieces, anticipate next steps, and don't let things fall through the cracks.
• A clear, warm communicator who creates a candidate experience that reflects Thrive's values.
• Curious and data-minded, using metrics to spot bottlenecks and keep searches moving.
• Self-directed and accountable; you ramp quickly and deliver results with minimal oversight.
• Passionate about Thrive's mission to improve wellbeing, performance, and resilience.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required.
• 5+ years of direct hands-on recruiting experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, HR, people operations, or a similar role involving candidate sourcing and process coordination.
• Provide experience with an applicant tracking system (ATS); Rippling experience is a plus.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with hiring managers and stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment.
• Full-cycle recruiting experience across a range of roles and functions.
• Confidence working directly with senior leaders and busy hiring managers, including proactively driving follow-through and accountability.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Comfort learning new systems, using technology and AI tools, and improving existing workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

✨ What We Offer:

• 🌍 Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a company that’s truly making a difference in people’s lives around the world.
• 🚀 Career Growth: Develop within the company and help shape our growth strategy.
• 💙 Human-Centric Culture: Thrive in a supportive environment with a range of wellness perks and benefits.
• 💰 Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding total compensation package.
• 🩺 Health & Financial Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage plus a 401(k) program with company match.
• 🌴 Time to Recharge: Generous paid time-off programs designed to help you rest, reset, and recharge — including Thrive Time, a benefit unique to Thrive that gives employees additional paid time off after major projects or intense periods of work to truly recharge and recover.

Compensation:

Compensation for this contract position is expected to fall within the range of $50–$75 per hour, depending on experience, expertise, and overall qualifications. Please note that, as this is a contractor role, compensation will be provided on an hourly basis and the selected candidate will not be eligible for employee benefits, bonus programs, equity, or other company-sponsored benefit plans. The final hourly rate will be determined based on the candidate's background, experience, and market considerations.

Thrive is deeply committed to creating a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment so that all employees can bring their whole selves to work.

Thrive is proud to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Thrive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please inform Thrive’s Recruiting team if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.