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Founding Recruiting Operations Coordinator - APJ

Posted 2 Months Ago
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Singapore, SGP
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Singapore, SGP
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Coordinate international recruiting across APAC, Japan, and MENA by scheduling interviews, supporting candidates, maintaining ATS data, collecting feedback, and coordinating offers. Support international onboarding, offboarding, employee data, compliance tracking, and global people policies. Help standardize recruiting and HR workflows, report on hiring metrics, identify process gaps, and contribute to scalable people initiatives across regions.
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We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.

We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.

About The Role

We are seeking a highly organised, internationally minded HR and Recruiting Coordinator to support recruiting and people operations across our international markets. Based in Singapore, this role will work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and people teams globally to deliver a consistent, high quality candidate and employee experience.

Key Responsibilities

International Recruiting Coordination

  • Coordinate and schedule interviews across APAC, Japan and MENA, managing multiple time zones with accuracy and urgency

  • Serve as a primary point of contact for candidates across international markets

  • Ensure a consistent and high quality candidate experience from initial contact through offer stage

  • Track candidate progress in the ATS, ensuring data accuracy and timely updates

  • Support recruiters with interview logistics, feedback collection, and offer coordination for international hires

International HR and People Operations

  • Support onboarding for new hires across MENA and APAC, working closely with local partners and international People Ops teams

  • Assist with offboarding processes and employee lifecycle updates across regions

  • Maintain accurate employee data across HR systems for international populations

  • Support compliance tracking in partnership with local advisors and internal stakeholders

  • Help operationalise global people policies while respecting local market requirements

Operational Excellence and Scale

  • Partner with the International People team to standardise and improve global recruiting and HR workflows

  • Support reporting on international hiring activity, time to hire, and operational metrics

  • Identify process gaps across regions and contribute to scalable, repeatable solutions

  • Assist with cross regional people initiatives as Cognition expands globally

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or a related discipline

  • 1–3 years of experience in recruiting coordination and operations

  • Experience supporting multiple regions or working across time zones is highly desirable

  • Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail

  • Comfortable working with ATS and HRIS platforms (Ashby preferred)

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

  • Professional, discreet, and confident working with confidential information

  • Adaptable, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast paced, global environment

Why Join Cognition

  • International exposure

  • Direct partnership with global People and Talent leadership

  • Involvement in scaling a world class AI company globally

  • Strong scope for role expansion as international operations grow

Our Commitment

Equal Opportunity. Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any. Cognition also considers applicants with criminal histories consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws.

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