Operations Specialist

Founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016, Thrive Global is a leading behavior change technology company with the mission to improve productivity and health outcomes - one Microstep at a time. Thrive helps individuals and organizations improve well-being, performance and mental resilience with its AI-powered behavior change technology platform. Thrive’s Microsteps - small, science-backed steps to improve health and productivity - have been adopted by employees at more than 230 organizations in over 160 countries, from frontline and call center workers to executives at multinational companies.

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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.

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.

• Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, sourcing criteria, and ideal candidate profiles.
• Proactively identify potential candidates using Linked In, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…