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.