Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities. Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back? , as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations. To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us. Location: San Jose, California (Hybrid) Annual salary: USD 150,000 to USD 180,000 Type: Full-time The Role We're looking for a Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations to be the operational backbone of our Talent Acquisition function. In this role, you will lead and develop the TA Ops team, owning the people management and overall function. You'll own the systems, data, processes, and programs that enable our TA team to hire with speed, quality, and consistency. You'll work closely with Director, Talent Acquisition and cross-functional stakeholders to build scalable infrastructure as we grow, bringing both strategic thinking and adding structure to chaos along the way. Candidates may be considered at the Manager level based on experience. What You'll Do Data, Reporting Analytics Own all Talent Acquisition reporting and analytics, including dashboards, recruiter performance metrics, pipeline health, time-to-fill, and quality-of-hire indicators. Build and maintain systems to monitor hiring progress, recruiter capacity, and demand forecasting. Serve as the source of truth for open role tracking, approval workflows, and hiring plan accuracy. Translate data into actionable insights that drive continuous improvement across the recruiting lifecycle and ensure data integrity across all systems. Hiring Candidate Experience Lead the TA Ops function, including interview coordination, scheduling infrastructure, and execution of end-to-end hiring workflows across teams and timezones. Own and scale the candidate experience strategy, ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience from application through offer across all roles. Manage and develop a team responsible for hiring coordination and candidate experience delivery, setting clear goals, processes, and performance standards. Partner with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to improve hiring efficiency, drive adoption of best practices, and continuously optimize speed, quality, and candidate satisfaction metrics. Operations Enhancement Process Excellence Identify inefficiencies in recruiting workflows and lead cross-functional initiatives to streamline and improve them. Build and document scalable operating procedures, playbooks, and standards for a growing TA organization. Drive a culture of operational rigor and continuous improvement across the TA function. Act as a hands-on problem solver, stepping in directly where the team needs support or where gaps emerge. Tech Enablement Recruiting Systems ... (truncated, view full listing at source)