Head of Global Recruiting Operations
At a glance
Director-level Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at Harvey. New York · full-time · $196,200–$294,200 base.
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What you'll do
- Turn long-range business goals into a shared recruiting operations plan with business leaders and recruiting teams
- Build recruiting programs and align systems, workflows, and automation with organizational priorities
- Work with Finance and business heads on workforce forecasts and capacity choices across regions
- Develop recruiting analytics that give leaders hiring pipeline forecasts and productivity insights
- Improve candidate and hiring-manager experience through programs and practical enablement
What you bring
- At least ten years leading recruiting operations, systems, and enablement teams in global, fast-growing organizations
- A record of converting business goals into recruiting plans, executive analytics, and scalable operating models
- Expertise in current recruiting and AI platforms, plus hiring compliance across multiple regions
- Strong leadership and stakeholder skills to influence senior leaders across functions
Who this fits
This director-level role suits a recruiting operations leader ready to guide strategy, systems, planning, analytics, and enablement globally. The position is hybrid in New York.
From the employer
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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