RecOps Consulting

Recruiting tech that actually works.

For startups and scaling teams who want their ATS configured, trusted, and built to grow, without the weekly frustration.

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darren@essentialta.com

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Not sure where to start?

Diagnose

A focused audit of your Ashby setup, covering configuration, workflows, data architecture, scheduling, and reporting. You get a written report and a prioritized, step-by-step plan: what's working, what isn't, and what to fix first.

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Engagement options

01Implementation

Launch

Build the foundation right from day one. I act as your project and technical lead: pipelines, workflow logic, automations, permissions, integrations, and analytics built to scale.

For: Teams implementing new tech

02Rescue & refine

Optimize

Inherited a half-built setup or outgrew your configuration? Cleaner data, smarter workflows, better reporting, and a structured hiring process that makes data meaningful.

For: Teams live but under-staffed

03Ongoing support

Fractional

Ashby ships fast. Ongoing configuration, data hygiene, and expert guidance on new features as they land, so nothing falls behind.

For: Teams wanting a specialist, not a hire

Work that speaks for itself

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An analytics foundation leadership could trust

Interviewed stakeholders, audited the underlying data, and built six custom dashboards covering pipeline health, recruiting performance, capacity, exec reporting, data quality, and scheduling, each rolled out with training.

6
custom dashboards
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Lever → Greenhouse + Workday in eight weeks

Served as project manager and solutions designer, acting as the hub between the Greenhouse team and every internal stakeholder and making the design calls that determined how the system actually worked.

8 wks
vs. typical 16–24
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Data quality and tech stack optimization

Audited four systems in Grammarly's recruiting tech stack for data integrity, reporting capability, and gaps. Over six months, I turned a fragmented environment, including 500 reports with no shared standards, into a structured reporting capability.

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systems optimized for data analytics

About

I sit between the people and the platform, understanding both what stakeholders need and how the system has to be built to deliver it.

I've been building recruiting infrastructure for over twenty years, implementing and configuring platforms including Taleo, Jobvite, Lever, Greenhouse, and their many integrations.

That experience has shown me that scalable systems depend less on the platform itself than on thoughtful data architecture, workflow logic, data governance, and change management.

Today, I focus exclusively on Ashby and Greenhouse. I'm an Ashby Partner, with hands-on knowledge of how both platforms are designed to work, where teams get stuck, and how to build something that lasts.

Whether you're launching, rebuilding, or refining your setup, I bring senior-level judgment and hands-on delivery.

FAQs

Ashby is my primary focus, and I also deliver Greenhouse implementations and migrations.

Let's make your ATS essential.

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