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title: 'Recruiting & HR Operations Specialist at Linear'
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# Recruiting & HR Operations Specialist at Linear

- **Company:** Linear
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/linear/2ef60eea-7cff-45c2-abf2-eaedc4ea89bd

## Job description

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. A note on recruitment fraud: all official Linear hiring communication comes from an @[linear.app](http://linear.app) email address, and all open roles are listed at [linear.app/careers](http://linear.app/careers). We never ask candidates for payment or financial information. Suspicious messages can be reported to security@linear.app.

## About Linear

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Linear builds a purpose-built product development system for modern teams and AI agents to plan, build, and ship software with high speed and quality.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Fully remote, team distributed across North America and Europe (no single physical HQ)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Karri Saarinen (CEO) and Tuomas Artman (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Software development tools / Product management / AI-assisted development
- Target customers: B2B – product teams of all sizes from ambitious startups to major enterprises (over 33,000 teams, including OpenAI, Coinbase, Ramp)
- Mission: “To inspire and accelerate builders” – operates on principles like ship early, build with users, keep the team small, and create fans.

## Products & Services
- **Linear Platform**: The core SaaS product – an issue tracker, project management, and product planning tool. Features include AI-powered agents (Linear Agent) for autonomous issue routing and coding, Linear Diffs for structured code review, roadmaps, PRDs, analytics, and team documents. Designed to reduce noise and restore momentum for teams shipping with high velocity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available – “Linear is small and profitable, and we intend to keep it that way.”
- **Key Metric**: Profitable; powers over 33,000 product teams (as of mid-2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Accel (Miles Clements, partner) and Sequoia (Stephanie Zhan, partner). Angel investors include Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO), Stewart Butterfield (ex-Slack CEO), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO), and many others from Y Combinator, design, and technology leadership.
- **Growth Signals**: Continued hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, design, and operations; expanding AI capabilities (Linear Agent, MCP support); remains profitably small by design.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Quality obsession**: Linear emphasizes craft, attention to detail, and building things that last – a “lost art” they aim to restore.
- **Fully remote, small-team autonomy**: No OKRs or A/B tests; decisions come from taste, customer insight, and direct judgment.
- **AI-native architecture**: Purpose-built for workflows shared by humans and agents, with early integration of code intelligence and agent-assisted development.
- **Selective hiring culture**: Paid work trials ensure mutual fit; focus on slope (growth) over credentials.
- **Strong community of fans**: “Build a community of people who use, love, and defend the product.”

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to evolve Linear into “a new species of product tool” for the AI era, integrating agents deeper into planning, coding, and review workflows.
- Maintain high quality and small team size while scaling customer base internationally.
- Grow go-to-market teams (account executives, solutions engineers) in North America and Europe.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: “Fully remote” with team distributed across North America and Europe – no central office, minimal process overhead.
- **Autonomy & ownership**: Small teams with clear ownership; individuals shape direction, talk to users, and own problems end-to-end.
- **Craft culture**: Engineers and designers who care deeply about quality and detail thrive here.
- **Hiring process**: Transparent, fast (4–6 weeks), paid work trials as final stage, honest feedback, and direct communication about compensation and equity.
- **Perks & vibe**: Profitable, stable, and focused on building rather than managing; “fewer meetings, less check-in points, and more autonomy than most companies offer.”

## Sources
1. [linear.app/careers](https://linear.app/careers) – Careers page with principles and open roles.
2. [linear.app](https://linear.app/) – Main product site with features, changelog, and customer count.
3. [linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear](https://linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear) – Detailed hiring philosophy and process.
4. [linear.app/about](https://linear.app/about) – About page with team, founding story, investors, and mission.

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