Head of Global Recruiting Operations

Harvey
San Francisco, CA
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 10+ years in global recruiting operations and experience with AI platforms.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years leading global recruiting operations in high-growth environments
    — “10+ years leading recruiting operations, systems, and enablement teams in global, high-growth organizations.”
  • Individuals who can translate business objectives into scalable recruiting strategies
    — “translating long term business objectives into a unified, high impact global recruiting operations strategy”
  • Professionals with deep knowledge of AI-native recruiting platforms and compliance frameworks
    — “Deep expertise with modern recruiting and AI platforms and global hiring compliance across multiple regions.”

Things to consider

  • This role demands leadership over cross-functional teams and global coordination
    — “partner cross functionally and with recruiting leadership to translate hiring plans into consistent, well run execution.”
  • Strong analytical and strategic planning capabilities are essential for this position
    — “Drive the continued development of a strategic talent analytics function to provide business leaders and recruiting executives with actionable guidance”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in aligning recruiting strategies with global business objectives
    — “translate long term business objectives into a unified, high impact global recruiting operations strategy”
  • Showcase your ability to lead and build strategic capabilities across hiring teams
    — “Collaborate with recruiting leaders to champion excellence, consistent standards, and strategic capability building across all hiring teams”
  • Demonstrate your ability to drive integrated workforce and demand planning
    — “Lead integrated workforce and demand planning in lockstep with Finance and business heads”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Developed and implemented global recruiting operations strategy
  • Improved hiring efficiency and quality
Typical background
10+ years in HR operationsExperience in high-growth tech companies

Skills & requirements

Required

Recruiting OperationsGlobal Talent AcquisitionRecruiting TechnologyRecruiting Analytics

Preferred

AI Integration In HRProgram Management

About the role

Original posting from Harvey via Ashby

WHY HARVEY

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.

Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.

At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Head of Global Recruiting Operations will lead the systems, programs, and processes that power and accelerate recruiting across every function and region. The Recruiting team's mission is to identify, attract, and hire world-class talent, and this role ensures the operational and programmatic infrastructure supports this goal. This position oversees the recruiting operating model end to end: coordination, systems, analytics, programs and enablement that support our hiring teams and ambitions hiring goals, ensuring a coherent model for a global organization. This leader will partner cross functionally and with recruiting leadership to translate hiring plans into consistent, well run execution. It is an exciting opportunity to operationalize talent acquisition at scale in an AI native environment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Partner proactively with business leadership and the recruiting team to translate long term business objectives into a unified, high impact global recruiting operations strategy
  • Develop and drive recruiting programs that align with the overall recruiting strategy
  • Drive strategic alignment across recruiting technology, operational workflows, and automation initiatives to directly support overarching organizational priorities
  • Collaborate with recruiting leaders to champion excellence, consistent standards, and strategic capability building across all hiring teams
  • Lead integrated workforce and demand planning in lockstep with Finance and business heads, steering executive decision-making and strategic capacity planning globally
  • Drive the continued development of a strategic talent analytics function to provide business leaders and recruiting executives with actionable guidance, pipeline foresight, and high-level productivity insights
  • Influence and elevate candidate experience and hiring manager engagement through world class programs and enablement

WHAT YOU HAVE

  • 10+ years leading recruiting operations, systems, and enablement teams in global, high-growth organizations.
  • Demonstrated success in translating overarching business goals into comprehensive recruiting strategies, executive analytics frameworks, and scalable operational models.
  • Deep expertise with modern recruiting and AI platforms and global hiring compliance across multiple regions.
  • Strong leadership and cross-functional stakeholder management skills to influence senior leadership.

COMPENSATION

$196,200 - $294,200 USD

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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai

Source: Harvey careers (Ashby)

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