Talent Acquisition and Operations Specialist

Blissway Inc.•Denver, CO

1d•$95,000 - $125,000•Onsite

About The Position

Blissway is a startup that simplifies toll collection and dramatically improves highway safety. We are multiple startups in one: Deep Tech, AI/ML, Hardware, SaaS, and IoT. For the past five years, we have built a nearly insurmountable technological lead in tolling, an industry that is quietly bigger than football. While our competitors have thousands of employees, we operate with a lean but growing team of less than 30. We’ve stayed under the radar, but our impact is visible on the massive Interstate Highway System connecting every major US metro (except Juneau, AK—sorry, Juneau). This role is for someone who has drive, thinks clearly, communicates clearly, sees recruiting as a science, is detail-obsessed, knows Ashby, and has technical foundations. You are a good fit if you take extreme ownership, cut through noise, get to the point, treat hiring as a system to test with data, ensure nothing falls through the cracks, and are comfortable with automations, integrations, and AI tools. You want your work to make a difference every day. You're drawn to the pace of a startup and the stability of a profitable business with long-term contracts. You're excited to drive past our products on the interstate and know you helped build something real. Our technological lead depends on hiring exceptional engineers. You will own the machine that finds them, moves them through our process, and converts them into great hires. This is an individual contributor role that will shape how we hire. You'll work directly with our founders and engineering leaders, and your ideas will change how we find and close great people.

Requirements

At least 6 months of hands-on Ashby experience beyond using it as a recruiter. You've built interview plans, set up automations, pulled reports, and fixed things when they broke.
Technical foundations: You don't need to be an engineer, but you're curious about how engineers work and fluent enough to earn their respect. You're comfortable with automations, integrations, and AI tools, and you'd rather build a workflow than repeat a task.
Ashby is a must.
Recruiting operations
ATS administration
Funnel analytics
Process design
AI-assisted workflows
Employer brand
Agency partnerships

Nice To Haves

Beyond Ashby, we value problem-solving over tool familiarity.
Have a tool you swear by? Bring the ROI case and we'll budget for it.

Responsibilities

Run the Engine: Own day-to-day recruiting operations across engineering and operations searches: pipeline management, scheduling, candidate communication, and work trial logistics.
Keep the System Sharp: Run our Ashby instance day to day. Maintain automations, stages, scorecards, and reporting, and flag what's slowing the team down.
Experiment and Measure: Track the funnel end to end. Run experiments to improve work trial conversion, speed, and candidate quality, and report what you learn.
Apply the Bar: Use our candidate profile and screening framework to triage applicants accurately, and help sharpen it as we learn from every hire.
Represent Blissway: You are often a candidate's first impression of us. Tell our story well, manage agency partners, and make every candidate want to join, even the ones we don't hire.

Benefits

Relocation bonus to help you get here.
Personalized Health Coverage (ICHRA): We provide a monthly allowance for you and dependents so you can choose the individual plan that actually fits your life.
401(k) matching up to 4%.
Transparent compensation.
Company-sponsored life & disability insurance.
Competitive equity package. Every year, we facilitate a tender process that gives you the opportunity to sell your vested shares at the same valuation as our investors.
4 weeks of untracked PTO.
12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents.
Every 5 years, take 12 weeks of fully paid leave.
Daily team lunches.
The Blissway Kitchen: Whether it’s breakfast to start your day or our daily group lunches, we keep the team fueled.
Snacks Autonomy: Our kitchen is fully stocked and we mean it—if we’re missing your favorite fuel, just add it to the request list.
The "BlissTrip": An annual 4-day getaway for the team and significant others.
Monthly Beats: Game nights, escape rooms, and dinners to celebrate the grit we put in.
Tuition reimbursement for courses, programs, and conferences that sharpen your craft.