Senior Talent Attraction Operations Manager

Role Description

As the Senior Talent Attraction Operations Manager, you will design and lead the operating system behind great hiring, standardizing how Talent Attraction works across the enterprise and continuously improving it over time. This role is central to creating the consistency, clarity, and scalability needed to deliver an exceptional hiring experience as the organization evolves.

• Own process excellence and operational rigor across the end-to-end Talent Attraction lifecycle.
• Focus on candidate and hiring manager experience, Workday and Paradox optimization, systems governance, and actionable hiring analytics.
• Build and maintain standards that enable recruiters to work effectively.
• Help hiring managers make better decisions.
• Ensure candidates experience a seamless, high-quality journey—from first touch through offer and onboarding handoff.
• Apply structured thinking and data-driven insight to diagnose friction points and design scalable solutions.
• Drive end-to-end implementation—from discovery and documentation through rollout, adoption, reinforcement, and measurement.
• Continuously refine processes, strengthen system integrity, and translate hiring data into clear, actionable insights.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Talent Attraction Operations or People Operations, ideally with prior experience as a recruiter.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Workday Recruiting (configuration, workflows, reporting, and optimization).
• Proven experience building and scaling recruiting operations in fast speed organizations.
• Strong process design, documentation, and continuous improvement capability.
• Strong data analytical skills with ability to turn data into practical insights.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with hiring managers, Recruiters, People Business Partners, People Tech, and business leaders.
• Systems thinker who can balance governance, usability, and experience.

Requirements

• Drive operational consistency and process excellence across Talent Attraction.
• Optimize end-to-end hiring journey for simplicity and clarity.
• Build and maintain best-in-class hiring processes.
• Serve as the Workday Talent Attraction Subject Matter Expert.
• Lead Hiring Analytics ensuring insights are actionable and accessible.
• Own and continuously improve key talent attraction programs.
• Enable Hiring Managers to hire well by developing user-friendly guides and resources.
• Increase accountability and confidence across the organization’s hiring practices.

Benefits

• Recruiters spend more time recruiting and less time navigating process or systems.
• Hiring managers understand exactly how to hire well and move efficiently.
• Candidates experience a clear, professional, and thoughtful process.
• Talent Attraction and Business leaders can access reliable quality and speed metrics instantly through Workday.
• Processes are documented, scalable, and consistently applied across teams.
• Workday Recruiting is optimized, intuitive, and trusted as a source of truth.

Company Description

Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs.