Talent Acquisition and Operations Specialist

About the Role

Blissway Inc. is seeking a Talent Acquisition and Operations Specialist to join our lean but growing team. This individual contributor role will own the process of finding, moving, and hiring exceptional engineers. You will work directly with founders and engineering leaders, shaping how we find and close great people.

Key Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day recruiting operations across engineering and operations searches, including pipeline management, scheduling, and candidate communication.
• Administer and maintain our Ashby instance, including automations, stages, scorecards, and reporting.
• Track the recruiting funnel end-to-end, run experiments to improve work trial conversion, speed, and candidate quality, and report on findings.
• Apply the candidate profile and screening framework to triage applicants and help refine it based on hiring learnings.
• Represent Blissway as a candidate's first impression, tell our story, manage agency partners, and create a positive candidate experience.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Comfortable using or learning Ashby.
• Experience with the following tools: Rippling, Claude, Notion, Slack, LinkedIn Recruiter, BuiltIn.
• Willingness to consider and onboard new tools with a strong ROI case.
• Specialties valued: Recruiting operations, ATS administration, funnel analytics, process design, AI-assisted workflows, employer brand, agency partnerships.

Qualifications

• Drive: Takes extreme ownership, fixes what is broken, and builds what is missing. Outcomes-focused.
• Clear Thinking: Cuts through noise, identifies pipeline issues, prioritizes fixes, and explains their impact. Differentiates good from great.
• Clear Communication: Concise written and verbal communication. Keeps candidates, hiring managers, and agency partners informed.
• Scientific Approach to Recruiting: Treats hiring as a system to be tested, uses data to inform decisions, and challenges "the way things have always been done."
• Detail-Oriented: Manages multiple searches, stakeholders, and candidates concurrently without tasks falling through the cracks. Keeps projects on track and ensures candidates feel cared for.
• Ashby Proficiency: At least 6 months of hands-on Ashby experience beyond basic recruiter use, including building interview plans, setting up automations, pulling reports, and troubleshooting.
• Technical Foundations: Curiosity about engineering workflows and fluency to earn respect. Comfortable with automations, integrations, and AI tools. Prefers building workflows over repeating tasks.
• In-Office Collaboration: Excited to work from our Denver office. This role requires in-office presence on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with remote flexibility on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Compensation Range

$95,000 - $125,000