Director, Global Talent Acquisition (TA) Operations and Programs
Sunnyvale, California - · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California -
About the role
- Illumio is seeking a Director, Global Talent Acquisition (TA) Operations and Programs to lead the architecture and product ownership of the company's AI-native Talent Acquisition Operating System.
- The role involves designing the global operating model, managing a distributed team of contractors, and partnering across People, Finance, IT, Security, Privacy, Legal, Procurement, and Communications.
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver a multi-year Talent Acquisition operations, programs, and transformation strategy aligned with Illumio's global hiring priorities.
- Design the global operating model, including ownership, decision rights, service standards, governance, business rhythms, and clear handoffs across recruiting, People Operations, IT, Workplaces and other key stakeholders and regions.
- Architect Illumio's AI-native Talent Acquisition Operating System, connecting Ashby and other approved tools into governed end-to-end workflows.
- Redesign work across the recruiting lifecycle by deciding what to automate, augment, keep human-led, or eliminate, with clear measures for speed, quality, experience, capacity, and risk.
- Own the portfolio and lifecycle of AI agents and automations, including the business case, accountable owner, approved data boundaries, human review, quality testing, impact measurement, and criteria to scale, modify, pause, or retire each capability.
- Build the Talent Intelligence and knowledge layer, including market maps, search blueprints, calibration learning, source outcomes, and reusable role-family insights, so recruiting knowledge compounds over time.
- Establish disciplined AI experimentation and governance with People Analytics, IT, Security, Privacy, and Legal partners while preserving human ownership of success definitions, assessment evidence, selection decisions, and candidate relationships.
- Create decision-oriented executive reporting and operating reviews that synthesize hiring-plan risk, capacity, funnel health, aging requisitions, market signals, source effectiveness, candidate experience, quality, and cost.
- Set the strategy and operating model for global early career and university recruiting, including workforce demand, partnerships, events, selection, intern and new-graduate experience, and conversion outcomes.
- Lead a portfolio of global Talent Acquisition programs such as interviewer enablement, candidate experience, talent communities, referrals, compliance, vendor management, and recruiting-team effectiveness.
Requirements
- Twelve or more years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition operations, recruiting programs, People Operations, or a closely related field, including significant leadership of complex global work.
- A record of building or scaling Talent Acquisition operations in a fast-moving technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, or similarly complex global environment.
- Experience architecting AI-enabled operating models or enterprise workflow transformation, including agent or automation portfolios, experimentation, governance, adoption, and measurement.
- The ability to translate operating problems into workflow, technology, and data requirements; engineering depth is not required.
- Deep working knowledge of recruiting systems, process design, data governance, analytics, dashboards, and executive reporting.
- Sound judgment about privacy, security, fairness, data boundaries, and where technology improves outcomes versus where human ownership must remain central.
- Experience building early career, internship, university recruiting, or other enterprise talent programs with clear business outcomes and measurable return on investment.
- Strong program and portfolio management skills, including prioritization, implementation, change leadership, vendor management, budgeting, risk management, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated success leading distributed employees and contingent professionals, designing organizations, setting functional priorities, and building capability and accountability through change.
- Executive presence, business and financial acumen, high integrity, and the ability to influence senior leaders and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Health and dependent savings accounts
- Life and disability programs
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness programs
- Retirement savings
- Equity opportunities
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee incentive programs
Skills
- Ashby
