Strategic Projects Lead Job York area,York and North Yorkshire England UK,HR/Recruitment

We're looking for a Strategic Projects Lead to take on recruiting's most complex, cross-cutting work: the high-stakes decisions and initiatives that span many teams and don't fit neatly into any one group's remit
You'll bring the structure, coordination, and follow-through that help these get made well, and see them through as the company scales
You'll work across every team that touches hiring, and you'll move work forward through partnership, not ownership
The job is influence: bring the right people together, make sure decisions are principled and well-documented, and keep recruiting's approach coherent over time
You'll be the most senior individual contributor for how recruiting operates, and success depends as much as on building trust across senior stakeholders with different priorities as it does on building good systems
This is a high-autonomy role for someone who thrives in complexity and ambiguity
You know recruiting well enough to feel where it breaks, and you're energized by holding several very different problems at once and driving each to a clear resolution
Take on recruiting's biggest ambiguous bets: define the problem, ship the smallest testable version, and hand each one off as a repeatable program before moving to the next
Own the operating rhythm across the teams that support recruiting, so we plan, review, and decide as one function
Spot recurring friction and fix the system behind it, not just the case in front of you
Own process design when company-wide changes run through recruiting, and drive them to real adoption with the partners who own the build and the comms
Be recruiting's DRI for headcount and workforce planning, including hiring pace and readiness for new regions
Own the operating standard for interviewing, like scheduling lead time and interviewer load, and lead the cross-team diagnosis when it slips
Turn analytics into standards and simple SOPs, and build documentation a new leader could pick up without you in the room
Keep the right people informed at the right time without becoming a bottleneck, and stay fluent in our recruiting systems and data so you can call the downstream impact of any decision
You'll partner directly with the leads for Recruiting Systems, Analytics, Interview Programs, and other teams. You won't run their teams or build their systems, but you'll know each well enough to make calls that hold up across all of them

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
22 weeks of paid parental leave
Flexible paid time off and absence policies
Mental health support for you and your dependents
Competitive salary and equity packages
Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
Retirement plans with competitive matching
Life and income protection plans
$500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
Commuter benefits
Annual education stipend
Home office stipends
Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
Daily meals and snacks in the office

Have taken a big process or policy change through an organization end to end and made it stick
Have been part of a talent team or partnered closely with one, and understand how recruiting operates day to day
Can lose a decision cleanly: disagree, commit, and execute with full credibility, knowing which calls are reversible and which aren't
Set the strategy and vision for your area rather than executing someone else's plan
Have put AI to work in real workflows: redesigning process, automating the repetitive layer, and shipping faster
Have 8-10+ years in program management, business operations, chief of staff, or people/talent roles at a fast-growing company, with increasing scope over time
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