# How to open a role

> Create a job posting in OpenATS, publish it to your careers page, and close or reopen it.

Open **Postings** and choose **Add new job**. Fill in the title, department (or client), location and description, then **Create draft**. A draft is private until you choose **Publish**, which puts it on your careers page.

*Roles & pipeline · Last updated 2026-11-11*

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## Create a posting

1. In the sidebar, open **Postings**.
2. Choose **Add new job**.
3. Fill in the **New posting** form.
   Title, Department (or Client company for an agency), Location, Workplace (On-site, Hybrid or Remote), Commitment (Full-time, Part-time, Contract or Internship), salary range and currency, and the description.
4. Choose **Create draft**.
   Drafts are private until you publish.
5. Choose **Publish** when it’s ready.
   It appears on your careers page straight away.

> **Tip:** At an agency, a title like “Product Designer @ Acme” picks the client Acme for you.

Admins, managers and team members can create postings.

## Draft, published, closed

| State | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **Draft** | Private. Only your team sees it. |
| **Pending approval** | Waiting for an admin, when your workspace requires approval to publish. |
| **Published** | Open, and on your careers page. |
| **Internal** | Open, but not on the careers page. Roles imported as internal arrive like this. |
| **Closed** | No longer hiring. **Reopen** brings it back. |

**Postings** has three tabs: **Active**, **Drafts** and **Archived**. Use **Close** on a role to stop hiring for it.

With **Settings → Hiring → Approvals → Job postings** on, team members see **Request approval** instead of **Publish**, and an admin chooses **Approve & publish** or **Reject**.

## What’s on a role’s page

- **Team**: who works on the role, and the **Confidential** switch. See [Confidential roles](https://openats.ai/docs/team-and-permissions/confidential-roles).
- **Tags**: everyone added to the role gets these tags. See [Tags and tag rules](https://openats.ai/docs/candidates/tags-and-tag-rules).
- **Match criteria**: what candidates are scored on, when AI is on. See [Candidate match](https://openats.ai/docs/search-and-ai/candidate-match).
- **Interview plan**: the steps of your process for this role.
- **Find past candidates**: people from earlier searches who reached a screen or scored 3 or more, and aren’t on this role yet.
- **Client share link**: a read-only page of progress to send a client or hiring manager. See [Sharing progress with a client](https://openats.ai/docs/roles-and-pipeline/share-with-a-client).

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Source: https://openats.ai/docs/roles-and-pipeline/open-a-role
OpenATS help center: https://openats.ai/docs