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Thrive helps individuals and organizations improve well-being, performance and mental resilience with its AI-powered behavior change technology platform. Thrive’s Microsteps - small, science-backed steps to improve health and productivity - have been adopted by employees at more than 230 organizations in over 160 countries, from frontline and call center workers to executives at multinational companies. For more information, visitwww.thriveglobal.com.\nAs our Contract Recruiting & Talent Operations Specialist, you will be a key driver of how Thrive Global grows. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role that combines candidate sourcing, recruiting coordination, and stakeholder management. You'll work closely with hiring managers across the company to understand their talent needs, identify promising candidates, and manage the recruiting process from initial outreach through offer acceptance.\nYou'll be the person who keeps everything moving, anticipating bottlenecks, following through on details, and ensuring candidates and hiring teams have what they need at every stage. We're open to candidates with backgrounds in recruiting, talent acquisition, HR, or operations who have demonstrated strong sourcing, coordination, and project management capabilities.\nHow You’ll Contribute\nThis role blends hands-on recruiting execution with close partnership across the business. You will keep hiring moving quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and candidate experience.\nSource & Engage\nPartner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, sourcing criteria, and ideal candidate profiles.\nProactively identify potential candidates using LinkedIn, online platforms, referrals, and creative sourcing strategies.\nPresent qualified candidate profiles to hiring managers, gather feedback, and refine searches accordingly.\nCoordinate candidate outreach and maintain an active pipeline for current and anticipated hiring needs.\nOwn Recruiting Operations\nManage recruiting workflows from candidate identification through offer acceptance, ensuring each step is completed accurately and on time.\nCoordinate interviews, candidate communications, feedback collection, and hiring decisions.\nMaintain clean, accurate, and up-to-date ATS data to support reporting and compliance, including accurate candidate records, interview notes, and recruiting documentation.\nTrack and report on pipeline health, time-to-fill, and other key recruiting metrics.\nPrepare interview packets and ensure hiring managers and executives have relevant candidate information ahead of interviews.\nTrack pipeline progress, flag bottlenecks, and provide regular recruiting status updates.\nPartner & Align\nBuild strong working relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders across the company.\nProactively follow up on outstanding actions, feedback, and decisions to keep searches progressing.\nCollaborate with the People team, Finance, and leadership on headcount priorities and offer approvals.\nHelp refine job descriptions, sourcing strategies, and interview processes based on hiring manager feedback and market insights.\nAdapt quickly to changing priorities and urgent hiring needs in a fast-paced environment.\nIdentify opportunities to streamline recruiting workflows and improve the candidate and hiring manager experience.\nWho You Are\nA relationship builder who earns trust quickly with hiring managers and candidates alike.\nResourceful and scrappy: You find creative ways to solve problems and don't need a detailed playbook to get started.\nEnergized by a fast-paced environment; you stay organized, adaptable, and calm as priorities shift.\nHighly organized: You keep track of moving pieces, anticipate next steps, and don't let things fall through the cracks.\nA clear, warm communicator who creates a candidate experience that reflects Thrive's values.\nCurious and data-minded, using metrics to spot bottlenecks and keep searches moving.\nSelf-directed and accountable; you ramp quickly and deliver results with minimal oversight.\nPassionate about Thrive's mission to improve wellbeing, performance, and resilience.\nQualifications & Skills\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required.\n5+ years of direct hands-on recruiting experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, HR, people operations, or a similar role involving candidate sourcing and process coordination.\nProvide experience with an applicant tracking system (ATS); Rippling experience is a plus..\nProven ability to work cross-functionally with hiring managers and stakeholders across multiple teams.\nExperience working in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment.\nFull-cycle recruiting experience across a range of roles and functions.\nConfidence working directly with senior leaders and busy hiring managers, including proactively driving follow-through and accountability.\nStrong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.\nComfort learning new systems, using technology and AI tools, and improving existing workflows.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nWhat We Offer:\n Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a company that’s truly making a difference in people’s lives around the world.\n Career Growth: Develop within the company and help shape our growth strategy.\n Human-Centric Culture: Thrive in a supportive environment with a range of wellness perks and benefits.\n Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding total compensation package.\n Health & Financial Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage plus a 401(k) program with company match.\n Time to Recharge: Generous paid time-off programs designed to help you rest, reset, and recharge - including Thrive Time, a benefit unique to Thrive that gives employees additional paid time off after major projects or intense periods of work to truly recharge and recover\nCompensation:\nCompensation for this contract position is expected to fall within the range of $50-$75 per hour, depending on experience, expertise, and overall qualifications.\nPlease note that, as this is a contractor role, compensation will be provided on an hourly basis and the selected candidate will not be eligible for employee benefits, bonus programs, equity, or other company-sponsored benefit plans. The final hourly rate will be determined based on the candidate's background, experience, and market considerations.\nThrive is deeply committed to creating a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment so that all employees can bring their whole selves to work.\nThrive is proud to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.\nThrive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 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