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Director, Global Tech Recruiting

Okta

San Francisco · Hybrid · Posted Sep 17, 2026

At a glance

Workplace
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco

About the role

  • The Director, Global Tech Recruiting will define, drive, and own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy across global Product and Technology organizations.
  • This leadership role involves scaling and inspiring a high-performing global recruiting team to deliver an elite, AI-enabled hiring experience for technical talent.
  • The position serves as a strategic partner to senior engineering and product executives, including the CTO, CPO, and CISO.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and scale a global recruiting team across the Americas, EMEA, and APJ.
  • Serve as the primary talent advisor to senior engineering and product executives.
  • Collaborate with FP&A, Tech Operations, Total Rewards, and People Partners to align workforce architecture with product roadmaps.
  • Architect and govern global technical headcount capacity models, leveling frameworks, and quarterly hiring targets.
  • Drive agile recruiter resource allocation to ensure on-target delivery across engineering and product pillars.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to standardize and refine technical interview rubrics, coding assessments, and system design evaluations.
  • Streamline the interview loop to eliminate bottlenecks and enforce strict SLAs.
  • Establish and maintain executive dashboards tracking full-funnel conversion metrics and competitive offer acceptance trends.
  • Champion an authentic engineering employer brand to attract builders, researchers, and technical leaders.

Requirements

  • Proven track record of leading, scaling, and managing global, multi-tiered technical recruiting organizations including managing managers.
  • Experience within high-growth enterprise SaaS, cloud infrastructure, or frontier technology environments.
  • Deep expertise leveraging full-funnel recruiting analytics, engineering capacity planning, and predictive forecasting.
  • Proven ability to navigate complex competitive talent landscapes and engineer compensation structures.
  • Ability to build influential partnerships across technical leadership, Engineering Operations, FP&A, People Partners, and Total Rewards.
  • Exceptional communication, data storytelling, and negotiation skills.
  • Technical literacy and executive presence to advise C-level leaders and Engineering Fellows.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible spending account
  • Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
  • Equity
  • Bonus

Workplace

  • Hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Requires 2 days per week in the San Francisco office.

Skills

  • Recruiting Analytics
  • Capacity Planning
  • Predictive Forecasting
  • Market Mapping
  • Data Storytelling

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