Recruiting & HR Operations Specialist

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America and Europe, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.

We're looking for a Recruiting & HR Operations Specialist to join the People & Talent team. You'll own the operational infrastructure behind how we find, interview, and onboard talent, and work closely with our recruiters, hiring managers, and People team. This role sits at the intersection of recruiting operations and HR coordination, and it's the right fit for someone who notices what's broken, knows how to fix it, and wants to build something durable.

Location & work mode

Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America — EST or CST preferred for timezone alignment with our Europe-based team. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

What you'll do

Recruiting Operations

• Own recruiting coordination for a high volume of open roles and create a consistent, well-run hiring experience for candidates, interviewers, and hiring managers
• Be the operational heartbeat of the candidate experience — scheduling, work trial coordination, and offer logistics are often the ones candidates remember most
• Own our recruiting tech stack: keep our ATS (Ashby) clean and well-configured (templates, sequences, stages, reporting) and manage vendor administration
• Support the offer process: send offers, manage approval coordination, and shepherd candidates through logistics to their start date
• Continuously look for ways to automate and streamline: use AI and modern tooling to move faster without sacrificing candidate experience

HR & People Operations

• Design and own the onboarding experience at Linear: build an onboarding journey that's thoughtful, well-coordinated across teams, scaleable, and leaves every new hire feeling set up for success from offer acceptance through their first few months
• Maintain people systems and data accuracy across our HRIS and ATS
• Coordinate employee lifecycle events including onboarding, transfers, and location changes
• Identify opportunities to make People Operations more efficient: automate the repeatable, improve the manual, and build systems that scale with the team

What we’re looking for

• 4+ years of experience in recruiting operations, HR coordination, or people operations at a fast-moving tech company
• Experience supporting employee onboarding and people programs, not just recruiting processes
• Proven ability to juggle multiple open roles and competing priorities without dropping details or letting candidates go cold
• Hands-on experience with an ATS (Ashby a plus) and HRIS systems; you know how to get data in clean and keep it that way
• Genuinely excited about using AI tools and automation to make your work and the candidate experience better
• Experience scaling or improving HR systems and processes, not just running them as-is
• Clear, warm communicator: you're the kind of person candidates remember positively even when they don't get the role
• High ownership mentality: you notice what's broken and fix it without waiting to be asked
• Familiarity with tools like Notion, Slack, and Linear

What we offer

We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows
• Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday
• Paid co-working space or desk
• Health coverage (based on country requirements)
• 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays
• 4 months paid parental leave
• Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Remote-first with no required commute

Learn how we think and work

• A story about our mission: Read Me https://linear.app/readme
• Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear https://linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear
• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear https://linear.app/now/designing-remote-work-at-linear
• How Linear uses Linear: How our Customer Experience team works in Linear https://linear.app/now/cx-in-linear
• A video series: Conversations on Quality https://linear.app/quality
• Building our teams: Why and how we do work trials at Linear https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear
• Our recent tender offer: Sharing Linear’s growth with the people building it https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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