Director, Recruiting Enablement & Programs

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta in San Francisco is seeking a visionary, results-oriented Director, Recruiting Enablement & Programs to lead as a senior operator across our global Talent Acquisition organization. You will own the core infrastructure powering our hiring engine, driving operational rigor and program excellence across an early-career team.

As a strategic architect, you will align long-term talent strategy with day-to-day execution, championing data-informed, scalable recruiting programs, playbooks, and

Responsibilities

• Design scalable global workflows across hiring
• Elevate recruiting coordination and interview logistics
• Set SLAs, benchmarks, and governance across teams
• Drive global change management for new programs
• Build comprehensive enablement programs and playbooks
• Champion structured interviewing and bias-mitigation practices
• Enhance candidate experience across the recruitment lifecycle
• Define and track recruiting analytics and dashboards
• Model headcount and capacity with Finance

Job description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

We are looking for a visionary, results-oriented Director, Recruiting Enablement & Programs to serve as a pivotal senior leader across our global Talent Acquisition organization. In this role, you will hold ownership of the core infrastructure that powers our hiring engine: driving operational rigor, recruiting enablement, and process excellence, alongside leading our comprehensive early-career team.

As a strategic operator and organizational architect, you will bridge long-term talent strategy with day to day execution. If you are passionate about transforming recruiting into an integrated, data-informed, and high impact system of programs, this leadership opportunity offers significant scope, executive visibility, and meaningful business impact.

What You’ll Lead & Deliver

Recruiting Operations & Process Excellence

• Design Scalable Global Workflows: Continually evolve and standardize end-to-end hiring workflows that deliver velocity, consistency, and a premium experience across global regions.
• Elevate Recruiting Coordination: Lead and modernize our Recruiting Coordination function, establishing high-touch candidate care and seamless interview logistics.
• Operating Rhythms & Governance: Set clear Service Level Agreements (SLAs), operational benchmarks, and accountability frameworks across recruiters, sourcers, and interview teams.
• Global Change Management: Drive high-adoption rollouts of new recruiting programs, workflow iterations, and operational standards.

Talent Enablement & Hiring Capabilities

• Build Hiring Capabilities: Design and deploy comprehensive enablement programs, playbooks, and toolkits for recruiters, hiring managers, and interview panels.
• Structured Assessment Frameworks: Champion structured interviewing, objective rubric design, and bias-mitigation practices to maintain high-bar, equitable hiring standards.
• Candidate Experience Advocacy: Reinforce high-touch candidate experience standards across every interaction throughout the talent acquisition lifecycle.

Data Intelligence, Forecasting & Capacity Planning

• Drive Business Insights: Define and track actionable recruiting analytics (e.g., funnel velocity, interviewer bandwidth, pipeline health, conversion metrics, intern conversion rates).
• Headcount & Capacity Modeling: Partner with Finance and TA Leadership on demand forecasting, capacity planning, and resource allocation.
• Executive Reporting: Build robust dashboards and strategic reporting frameworks to give executive leaders full transparency into talent acquisition performance.

Talent Strategy & University Programs

• Architect Enterprise Early-Career Strategy: Design and scale a multi-year global University Recruiting (UR) vision encompassing internships, co-ops, and new graduate hiring.
• Campus Brand & Strategic Ecosystems: