Talent Operations Manager

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users. Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development. We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you. APPLYING TO RENDER We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team. We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed. Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Talent Operations Manager to own the systems, data, and operating rhythm behind how Render hires. You’ll architect our ATS, build the reporting that Talent and hiring teams rely on, and lead process changes that help us scale without losing quality. You’ll work closely with recruiters, recruiting coordinators, hiring managers, People leaders, and external partners. You’ll make sure our hiring data can answer the questions teams need to make better decisions. This is a high-leverage role for someone who likes turning messy, fast-moving work into clear operating systems. You’ll help us reduce process drift, improve the candidate experience, keep hiring data trustworthy, and give the team better visibility into what is working, what is blocked, and where we need to adjust. We value people who are practical, systems-minded, and steady when the work gets complex. The right person can zoom out to design how the system should work, then zoom in to improve the field, report, access role, or automation that is slowing the team down. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Architect how our ATS works across custom fields, access roles, interview plans, feedback forms, automations, integrations, and reporting foundations - Own the reporting layer for Talent leadership and hiring teams, including dashboards, ad hoc reporting, metric definitions, and visibility into hiring plan progress - Keep hiring data accurate and reconciled across the ATS, the hiring plan, and downstream systems so decisions get made on numbers people trust - Partner with People on job architecture, leveling, and offer consistency, and keep the ATS and People systems aligned as roles and plans change - Partner with Finance on hiring plan reconciliation and the reporting leadership uses to see where the plan stands - Turn recurring Talent Operations requests into better systems: identify patterns, improve workflows, automate repeatable work, and make the right processes self-serve - Evaluate, procure, implement, and manage tools for sourcing, scheduling, reporting, and recruiting operations - Own how our systems connect, including scoping, testing, and maintaining API-based reporting, integrations, and automations that reduce manual work for recruiters and coordinators - Lead process rollouts with clear documentation, training, adoption checks, and follow-through so changes stick WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - 5+ years in recruiting, recruiting operations, talent operations, people systems, or a similar systems and data role in a high-growth environment - Deep ATS expertise, with Ashby strongly preferred. You can design how the system should work, not just maintain it, across custom fields, access roles, interview plans, automations, integrations, and reporting foundations - Strong analytical skills. You can take a vague question, decide what data would answer it, and build the report yourself - Proficient in Google Sheets or Excel. You can pull data together from multiple sources and turn the result into a case a cross-functional partner can follow - Experience owning data integrity across an ATS and the systems around it, including reconciling against a hiring plan or another source of truth - Strong program and change management skills. You can roll out a new process, teach it, measure adoption, and keep the team aligned - Clear written communication, strong documentation habits, high attention to detail, and good judgment in a fast-moving environment NICE-TO-HAVES - Experience building or scaling a recruiting operations function at a post-Series B/C company - Experience supporting technical recruiting teams or high-volume engineering hiring - Hands-on experience with the Ashby API or ATS-based reporting - Exposure to headcount planning or hea