Candidate Experience & Recruiting Operations Manager

Terray Therapeutics; Monrovia (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

Terray Therapeutics in Monrovia, CA is seeking a Recruiting & Candidate Experience Manager to guide candidates through a thoughtful hiring process across life sciences and technology. You’ll partner with hiring managers to post roles, coordinate interviews, gather feedback, and ensure candidates have a great experience.

You don’t need to be a scientist, but you should be curious about Terray’s work, communicating credibly with candidates and teams.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating recruiting, talent acquisition, or a similar people-focused process in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to keep multiple searches, candidates, and hiring teams moving at once.
• Excellent candidate communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong judgment and ability to partner effectively with hiring managers and senior leaders.
• Experience coordinating interviews, hiring decisions, offers, and onboarding.
• Comfortable using recruiting data and systems to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve processes.
• Highly organized, responsive, and attentive to details without losing sight of the overall candidate experience.
• Curious and comfortable learning enough about highly technical roles to communicate effectively with candidates and hiring teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers. Define candidate profiles, interview plans, recruiting strategies, and personalized onboarding plans.
• Get our roles in front of the right people. Ensure jobs are posted and promoted through the most effective channels and talent communities.
• Be the candidate’s point of contact. Build relationships with candidates and keep them informed and engaged throughout the process.
• Manage external recruiters. Determine when third-party support adds value and manage those relationships for quality, effectiveness, and cost.
• Own interview coordination. Manage scheduling, interviewer preparation, candidate communication, and interview logistics.
• Keep hiring decisions moving. Gather feedback, coordinate hiring discussions, and ensure clear decisions and next steps.
• Partner through offer and close. Coordinate with People Operations and hiring managers on offers, candidate questions, and closing.
• Own the onboarding experience. With the hiring manager, tailor onboarding to each new hire’s experience and background so they have the context, connections, and resources to get up to speed quickly.
• Coordinate hiring through onboarding. Guide candidates from application through their first weeks at Terray, keeping the experience organized, timely, and thoughtful.
• Use data to improve hiring and onboarding. Track effectiveness, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve the candidate and new-hire experience.

Skills

Recruiting coordination

Project management

Candidate communication

Hiring partner

Interview coordination

Data-driven recruiting

Onboarding

Organization

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Job description

Terray Therapeutics in Monrovia, CA is seeking a Recruiting & Candidate Experience Manager to guide candidates through a thoughtful hiring process across life sciences and technology. You’ll partner with hiring managers to post roles, coordinate interviews, gather feedback, and ensure candidates have a great experience.

You don’t need to be a scientist, but you should be curious about Terray’s work, communicating credibly with candidates and teams.