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Director of Talent Operations, Strategy & Automation
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About the Role
Job Title: Director of Talent Operations, Strategy & Automation We’re looking for a Director of Talent Operations, Strategy & Automation to build the systems and operating infrastructure that enable our human-data operations to scale. You will own the strategy and automation roadmap across Talent Operations, identifying where workflows should be automated, redesigned, or rebuilt. A core part of the role is shaping the Ops Platform, our internal system for managing pipeline creation, talent onboarding, subscriptions, and workflows across AI training deployments.
What You'll Do
- Own the TO automation roadmap, prioritizing the highest-leverage opportunities to automate, redesign, or eliminate operational work.
- Redesign workflows for scale, identifying bottlenecks, failure points, and unnecessary manual work.
- Shape the Ops Platform, defining requirements, workflows, business logic, and success criteria for TO systems and engineering initiatives.
- Translate operations into systems, turning complex operational needs into clear product and engineering requirements.
- Work directly with operators to understand workflows, edge cases, pain points, and user needs firsthand.
- Drive cross-functional execution with Product, Engineering, Human Data, Recruiting, and Finance from discovery through rollout.
- Measure impact across operational capacity, cycle time, manual effort, reliability, and error reduction.
- Create visibility into priorities, progress, impact, risks, and dependencies across TO initiatives.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: Automation Strategy, Process Transformation, Product Operations, Cross-Functional Leadership
- Significant experience in operations strategy, automation, product operations, systems, or business operations.
- Track record of turning complex, manual operations into scalable systems and workflows.
- Strong product judgment and ability to translate operational problems into technical requirements.
- Hands-on experience with process mapping, workflow design, automation, and systems implementation.
- Experience partnering with Product and Engineering to build internal platforms or operational tooling.
- Strong analytical and communication skills across technical and operational teams.
- Ability to operate from strategy through execution in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Experience building or scaling internal operations platforms or workflow systems.
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