Director (Global Talent Acquisition Operations and Programs)

Illumio; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Savings Accounts

Life and Disability Programs

Paid Parental Leave

Voluntary Benefit Programs

Company Sponsored Wellness Program

Wellness Reimbursement Program

Retirement Savings

Equity Opportunities

Paid time off

Job summary

Illumio is seeking an executive to lead Global Talent Acquisition, building a disciplined, data-driven engine for hiring with speed, quality, and care. You will architect an AI-native operating system, govern a multi-year TA program, and lead a distributed team across functions to scale globally.

The role focuses on transforming recruiting workflows, technology decisions, and performance metrics while preserving human ownership of relationships and decisions.

Qualifications

• Twelve or more years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition operations.
• Experience architecting AI-enabled operating models or enterprise workflow transformation.
• Experience building early career, internship, university programs with measurable ROI.
• Strong program and portfolio management skills, including prioritization and risk management.
• Deep knowledge of recruiting systems, data governance, analytics, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio governance, budget priorities, vendor strategy, and longer-term TA organization plan.
• Lead a distributed global TA team and cross-functional partners across People, Finance, IT, Security, Legal, and Communications.
• Architect Illumio’s AI-native Talent Acquisition Operating System and integrate Ashby with end-to-end workflows.
• Define and deliver multi-year TA operations, programs, and transformation strategy aligned with Illumio’s hiring priorities.

Skills

Talent Acquisition operations

AI-enabled TA

Leadership

Program management

Global operations

Vendor management

Executive reporting

Tools

Ashby

Job description

• Global Talent Acquisition is building a disciplined, data-driven talent engine that helps Illumio hire exceptional people with speed, quality, consistency, and care. We translate business priorities into hiring outcomes, create a candidate experience that reflects our values, and build the operating foundation required to scale globally


• We are evolving Talent Acquisition into an AI-enabled, intelligence-led function. Our goal is to use technology to remove routine work and surface better insight while preserving human ownership of relationships, assessment, and consequential hiring decisions


• Reporting to the leader of Global Talent Acquisition, you will be the architect and product owner of Illumio’s AI-native Talent Acquisition Operating System: the connected operating model, workflows, technology, intelligence, controls, and learning loops that power global hiring


• You will lead a distributed team of five contractors and partner across People, Finance, IT, Security, Privacy, Legal, Procurement, Communications, and the business


• 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


• Lead, coach, and create accountability for a distributed global team


• Own portfolio governance, budget priorities, vendor strategy, and the longer-term organization and resourcing plan for Talent Acquisition operations and programs


• Lead the people side of transformation through role-based enablement, champions, office hours, release communications, open learning from failures, and new capability expectations for recruiters and Talent Acquisition Operations

Benefits

• Health and Dependent Savings Accounts


• Life and Disability Programs


• Paid Parental Leave


• Voluntary Benefit Programs


• Company Sponsored Wellness Program


• Wellness Reimbursement Program


• Retirement Savings


• Equity Opportunities


• Paid time off and Paid Holidays


• Employee Incentive Program


• Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

The strongest candidates will bring a combination of operating depth, transformation leadership, and sound judgment.

• 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


• Experience building early career, internship, university recruiting, or other enterprise talent programs with clear business outcomes and measurable return on investment


• The ability to translate operating problems into workflow, technology, and data requirements; engineering depth is not required


• Strong program and portfolio management skills, including prioritization, implementation, change leadership, vendor management, budgeting, risk management, and continuous improvement


• Deep working knowledge of recruiting systems, process design, data governance, analytics, dashboards, and executive reporting; experience with Ashby or a comparable applicant tracking platform is valuable


• 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