Talent Coordinator
About The Position
As one of AfterQuery’s first talent coordinator hires, you’ll help build the coordination engine behind the company’s hiring process. You’ll work closely with founders, recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates to ensure interview processes run quickly, smoothly, and professionally. This is a high-ownership role for someone organized, detail-oriented, and excited to help scale a world-class talent function from the ground up. AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. The company serves frontier AI labs and is based in San Francisco.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience in recruiting coordination, people operations, executive assistance, operations, or another highly organized coordination-heavy role.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage many moving pieces at once without dropping details.
- Comfort working with calendars, scheduling, spreadsheets, ATS systems, and recruiting tools.
- High responsiveness and strong follow-through.
- Strong judgment when communicating with candidates, interviewers, and internal teams.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Excitement to help build processes from scratch.
Nice To Haves
- Experience coordinating technical recruiting processes.
- Experience at a high-growth startup, AI company, tech company, or recruiting agency.
- Familiarity with technical interview loops and hiring workflows.
- Experience using tools like Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, LinkedIn Recruiter, Google Calendar, Notion, Linear, or similar systems.
- Strong candidate experience instincts.
- Comfort working directly with founders, executives, recruiters, and hiring managers.
- Experience improving scheduling systems, recruiting templates, or internal process documentation.
Responsibilities
- Own interview scheduling and coordination across the talent team.
- Coordinate candidate logistics across recruiter screens, technical interviews, onsite interviews, final rounds, and offer processes.
- Manage communication with candidates throughout the interview process.
- Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to ensure interviews are scheduled quickly and accurately.
- Maintain accurate candidate records in the ATS and recruiting systems.
- Track candidate progress, feedback status, interviewer availability, and process bottlenecks.
- Ensure every candidate has a high-touch, professional, and responsive experience.
- Help improve recruiting workflows, templates, systems, and internal coordination processes.
- Support the talent team with ad hoc projects as AfterQuery scales.
- Help prepare interviewers with the right context, scorecards, resumes, and scheduling details.
- Support recruiting operations, including calendar management, interview loop setup, candidate follow-ups, offer process coordination, recruiting reports, and process documentation.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental health insurance for eligible employees.
- 401(k) with employer match for eligible employees.
- Daily UberEats stipend for meals.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
