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Recorded live at Transform 2026, this is a reunion episode — Ariana Moon was 8 months pregnant at her last appearance on the show, and she returns as a new mom, a nearly 11-year Greenhouse veteran, and one of the most operationally sharp recruiting leaders in the business. The warmth of this conversation is matched by the depth of its content: it covers everything from maternity leave culture and the politics of fully disconnecting, to Greenhouse's B2C product innovation, to one of the most practically useful interviewing frameworks in the series.
Ariana is VP of Talent Planning and Talent Acquisition at Greenhouse — the ATS platform that has made hiring great for everyone its stated mission. What makes her role unusual is that Greenhouse recruiters are essentially internal product testers and feedback loops for the platform they use every day, giving Ariana a dual lens that most TA leaders simply don't have. She talks about the candidate-first thinking behind Greenhouse's My Greenhouse platform — a B2C-facing feature that lets job seekers designate dream job companies and signal genuine intent in a market drowning in AI-generated noise.
The centerpiece of the episode is Ariana's AI offense and defense framework — a workshop her team ran to tackle two simultaneous problems: how to make interview questions more AI-resistant and how to explicitly test for AI mindset and skills in candidates. In a world where the STAR method is fully gameable by AI second-screen tools, she and her team are redesigning their entire interview architecture around behaviors, decisions, and genuine human judgment. She also shares Greenhouse's behavioral hiring philosophy — hiring for things like 'make good decisions fast' and 'invent the future' — and why the shift toward interpersonal and behavioral skills may be the biggest adaptation in recruiting right now.
Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariana-s-moon/
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