Recruiting Operations

Magic’s mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems. We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone. Our approach combines frontier-scale pre-training, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.
About the role:

As the first hire for Recruiting Operations at Magic, you will be the architect and owner of our recruiting operations function. This is a foundational role reporting to the Head of Recruiting, with heavy cross-functional partnership with the Head of People and leadership across Engineering, Research, and Operations.

You’ll be responsible for building the systems, processes, data infrastructure, and operating rhythms that allow Magic to hire world-class talent at speed, without sacrificing quality, candidate experience, or rigor. This role is ideal for someone who has built recruiting operations in high-growth environments and wants end-to-end ownership over how hiring scales.

• Designing and owning the end-to-end recruiting operations strategy to support rapid company growth

• Building and maintaining Magic’s recruiting tech stack including ATS, scheduling, tooling, integrations, and automation

• Defining and optimizing hiring workflows, interview processes, and decision-making frameworks across functions

• Developing recruiting analytics, dashboards, and reporting to inform leadership decisions and hiring strategy

• Partnering closely with Recruiting, People, and Finance to forecast headcount and track hiring performance

• Driving operational rigor across candidate experience, interview logistics, offer processes, and onboarding handoff

• Establishing scalable processes for compliance, documentation, and audit readiness

• Identifying inefficiencies and continuously improving speed, quality, and signal in hiring

• Acting as a thought partner to recruiting leadership on how to evolve the function as Magic grows
  

• Experience leading or owning recruiting operations in a high-growth company, ideally as a founding or early hire

• Background as a Recruiting Operations leader, Head of Talent, or equivalent role with deep operational ownership

• Exceptional data and analytics skills, able to pull, analyze, and synthesize recruiting data to drive decisions

• Proven ability to design scalable processes for complex, high-bar hiring environments

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially with People, Finance, and technical leaders

• High level of ownership, autonomy, and comfort operating in ambiguity

• Clear communication skills and the ability to influence without authority
  

• Experience building recruiting operations at an AI, ML, or deeply technical company

• Familiarity with the AI talent landscape and competitive hiring dynamics

• Experience supporting hypergrowth phases such as rapid headcount expansion

• Prior experience evaluating and implementing recruiting tools and systems from scratch
  

• Integrity. We value honesty, transparency, and doing the right thing

• Hands-on. We prefer builders and doers who take ownership

• Teamwork. We work closely across disciplines and functions

• Focus. We prioritize what matters most and execute with intention

• Quality. We care deeply about excellence in everything we do
  

• Annual salary range: $220,000 to $270,000 USD

• Competitive equity package

• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) plan

• Unlimited PTO

• Daily meals and snacks (SF office)

• The opportunity to build and shape a critical function at the ground floor of a category-defining company