Associate Director, Growth (Talent Operations)

Location: San Francisco, US; hybrid

Salary: USD 170,000–200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global creates, evaluates, and improves human data for AI models across modalities and training stages, combining technology, human intelligence, and operational execution.

What you will do

• Set the talent supply strategy for specialized experts, subject matter professionals, and contractor workforces.
• Build and scale contributor acquisition systems from sourcing through first accepted work, automating appropriate steps.
• Design, deploy, and measure AI-enabled workflows and agents for sourcing, screening, and onboarding.
• Manage messaging, targeting, channels, budget, vendors, and acquisition performance against contributor quality.
• Lead and develop a recruiting team, setting goals, KPIs, and a high-performance operating culture.
• Plan contributor supply across concurrent customer programs and report on pipeline health, quality, retention, utilization, risks, and capacity gaps.

Requirements

• 7+ years in talent acquisition, workforce operations, or recruiting program management, including at least 2 years leading a recruiting team.
• Experience running high-volume recruiting or sourcing programs, ideally in workforce, gig economy, or human data environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-first workflows, agents, or systems; able to define system behavior, test and measure results, and direct an engineer.
• Experience building or scaling sourcing infrastructure, recruiting systems, or acquisition workflows.
• Strong data-driven problem diagnosis and performance improvement experience.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing recruiters, ideally including team leads.
• Working knowledge of how annotation, RLHF, and evaluation data is produced and judged.
• Fluency with sourcing automation and recruiting technology, plus the ability to build scalable workflows.
• Comfort making decisions with incomplete information while priorities and program scopes change.

Nice to have

• Experience working directly with an engineer or technical partner to build recruiting systems.
• Experience managing distributed or international recruiting teams.
• Exposure to market mapping, talent intelligence, or supply-demand forecasting for contractor workforces.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work based in San Francisco.
• Direct reporting to the Chief Business Officer with ownership of a growth-critical function.
• Opportunity to build a team and function supporting AI data programs.
• Equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity, fairness, and inclusion.

Hiring process

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.