Recruiting Automation & AI Program Manager
Starbridge
Location
New York City
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Finance/HR/Ops
Starbridge is growing at a very high velocity: we’ve grown from 0 to almost 200 enterprise customers in the last 6 months. We're seeking a recruiting automation and operations engineer to help us build our team from 20 to 60 rapidly while maintaining an incredibly high talent bar.
You’ll partner with our Head of Recruiting, COO, and hiring managers to build the infrastructure, automations, and workflows that power Starbridge’s talent engine. Your work will directly shape how quickly and intelligently we scale our team—turning recruiting into an AI-first, data-driven, and deeply efficient function.
If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love building systems that make people’s work simpler and smarter, and want to build the future of recruiting—we’d love to meet you.
Responsibilities & Impact
Own recruiting systems & automation roadmap: Design and execute the automation and AI roadmap across Ashby, Juicebox, Clay, N8N, and other connected tools to drive mass, scaled and personalized outbound to connect with candidates and drive a high velocity, seamless downstream experience for them.
Being an AI-first, experimentation wizard: Run bets with across new tools channels, messaging, and agents, measure ROI, and decide when to expand or sunset.
Making our recruiting data-driven: Testing & integrating additional third-party data sources such as Kaggle, Github etc., to inform to stack rank potential candidates.
Streamline workflows across the funnel: Optimize how candidates move through sourcing, screening, scheduling, and offers—reducing turnaround time and improving recruiter leverage.
Measure and report impact: Define & track metrics to help us optimize the recruiting function from end-to-end.
Recruiting and candidates are your customers: Ensure new tools and automations feel intuitive, maintain data integrity and an exceptional candidate experience, and actually make recruiters’ lives easier.
What You Bring
Must Have
5+ years in Recruiting Operations, Business/Revenue Operations, People Systems, or adjacent roles in high-growth SaaS or startup environments.
Demonstrated ability to design and implement sophisticated automations across tools like Ashby, Juicebox, Zapier, N8N, etc.
Hands-on builder mindset—you’re comfortable scripting, connecting APIs, and experimenting quickly; you're a vibe coding savant.
Strong analytical chops; you use data to make and defend process decisions.
Nice to Have
Familiarity with BI or SQL tools (Snowflake, Tableau, or similar).
Experience integrating AI tools (ChatGPT, Juicebox, etc.) into recruiting workflows.
Prior experience standing up recruiting systems from scratch in early-stage companies.
Why Join Starbridge
Ownership: Your impact will be as large as you want it to be; we are an incredibly flat team that rewards high performers very quickly.
Autonomy: You’ll have freedom to innovate and iterate alongside the team.
Team: Work alongside sharp, collaborative colleagues who value craft and execution.
Mission: Help modern companies sell into a $1.5T public sector with better intelligence.
Benefits include:
Competitive salary + early-stage equity
Company provided Lunch in office everyday
Complimentary gym (Chelsea Piers Fitness) membership
Unlimited PTO
Regular offsites (NYC + global locations)