← All roles

Talent Operations Coordinator, R&D

Cognition· General & Administrative
Apply on company site
San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Talent Operations Coordinator supporting R&D at Cognition, focused on coordinating interview logistics, candidate experience, and scalable hiring processes for a fast-paced, technically heavy environment.

Responsibilities

  • Run point on scheduling and interview logistics for the R&D team, juggling calendars, time zones, and last-minute changes so nobody's ever caught off guard
  • Greet and host candidates onsite, reading the room and adjusting so each person feels comfortable, whether they're a first-time interviewer or a seasoned researcher
  • Keep everyone in the loop. Candidates, interviewers, hiring managers with updates that are clear, timely, and never robotic
  • Work shoulder-to-shoulder with recruiters and hiring managers, flagging issues before they become problems and adjusting plans on the fly
  • Own our ATS data (Ashby) so the pipeline stays clean and nothing slips through
  • Poke at how the R&D team hires and runs meetings, and fix what's clunky before anyone has to ask
  • Pull together numbers on hiring pace, time to hire, and team growth for leadership
  • Help pull off team events, offsites, and research show-and-tells
  • Spot the cracks in the process early and build something more scalable before they turn into real problems

Qualifications

  • You've spent 2+ years doing recruiting coordination, recruiting ops, or talent ops somewhere fast and technical
  • You're the person who double-checks a calendar invite's time zone before it goes out, every time
  • A clunky process bugs you enough that you just go fix it—nobody has to ask
  • You genuinely care whether the interview went well for everyone involved: the candidate, the hiring manager, the interviewer squeezing this in between meetings
  • You can hold a dozen moving pieces at once without losing your cool
  • People trust you to follow through, every time, no reminders needed
  • You like people, all kinds of people, and it shows
  • You know how to keep sensitive information sensitive
  • Bonus points if you've supported a technical or research team before, or already know your way around Ashby
  • You're based in San Francisco or ready to be

Skills

Required:Scheduling and calendar managementCandidate experience and hostingStakeholder communication
Nice to have:ATS administration (Ashby)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
Cognition logo

About Cognition

cognition is an applied AI lab

An applied AI lab building the future of software engineering. We’re the makers of Devin, a collaborative AI teammate that helps ambitious engineering teams achieve more.

AIai-plg-top-20collaborative AIliquid-ai-recruiting-targetmachine learningsoftware engineering
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Cognition