Talent Acquisition Operations Lead

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. The Talent Acquisition Operations Lead will be responsible for building the operational infrastructure for Talent Acquisition while ensuring efficient hiring processes and systems are in place to support rapid growth across global regions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and take responsibility for the Talent Acquisition reporting framework and dashboards bringing together data from Greenhouse, HRIS, Superset and other sources into a reliable reporting structure
• Establish consistent hiring metrics and reporting cadence for leadership
• Collaborate with Finance, People Data, and People Operations to coordinate hiring efforts with workforce planning
• Track pipeline health, time-to-hire, recruiter capacity and delivery against hiring plans
• Surface risks, bottlenecks and trade-offs to support prioritisation
• Act as primary administrator for the ATS (Greenhouse) managing workflows, permissions, interview stages and data governance
• Ensure systems are used consistently across global teams
• Maintain GDPR compliance, data retention and data quality
• Monitor integrations, APIs and overall system performance
• Find opportunities for automation, AI and tooling improvements
• Manage licences and usage across platforms such as HackerRank and LinkedIn
• Partner with IT to ensure tools meet security and integration requirements
• Maintain the framework for agency and vendor engagement, including terms of business and rate cards
• Support operational management of RPO and agency partners, useage and performance
• Ensure external partners follow internal hiring processes and systems
• Align recruiter capacity with hiring demand through the RPO flex model
• Review and refine recruitment processes to ensure they are scalable and consistently used
• Standardise recruitment workflows while allowing for regional requirements
• Maintain operational documentation across areas such as visas, relocation and hiring approvals
• Compliance & Audit readiness
• Own onboarding and operational training for recruiters, coordinators and RPO partners
• Update enablement materials to support global teams and new locations
• Promote regular use of systems, processes, and messaging throughout the team
• Support hiring managers with guidance on interviewing and scorecards
• Partner with the Employer Branding Specialist to maintain a consistent candidate experience