Global Talent Acquisition, Executive Director

Synopsys; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Synopsys is seeking a seasoned Talent Acquisition leader to drive global strategy, governance, and transformation across 80+ recruiters and shared services. You will partner with executives to forecast workforce needs, design scalable processes, and optimize partnerships with suppliers and RPOs.

You will shape the TA operating model, own the budget, and lead AI-enabled recruiting initiatives to improve speed, quality, and candidate experience.

Qualifications

• 15+ years leading talent acquisition at scale in global tech companies.
• Proven ability to partner with executives to scale hiring and workforce plans.
• Strong track record managing vendors, RPOs, and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global TA leadership team and 80+ recruiters and shared services professionals.
• Partner with business leaders to develop workforce plans aligning hiring with growth.
• Own the global TA operating model and balance internal teams, shared services, tech, and partners.
• Own the global TA budget and optimize investments in people, tech, branding, and external partners.
• Lead enterprise-wide TA transformation initiatives, including AI-enabled recruiting and process redesign.
• Establish a data-driven TA strategy using workforce and market intelligence.
• Lead global vendor and RPO strategy to meet quality and cost targets.
• Design and execute global early career and university recruiting programs.
• Establish scalable recruiting practices that improve efficiency and candidate experience.

Skills

Global TA leadership

Workforce planning

Vendor management

AI-enabled recruiting

Talent acquisition transformation

Tools

ATS systems

Job description

You Are

You have built your career leading talent acquisition at scale in global technology companies. You know how to design hiring strategies that support business growth and build the teams and systems that execute them, from early career programs to executive hiring.

You are a trusted advisor, capable of influencing decisions and aligning talent strategies with business priorities. You do not just manage recruiters. You create the infrastructure, tools, vendor partnerships, and clarity that help them succeed.

You care about continuous improvement and keep refining how the team works, because better systems, stronger vendor partnerships, and smarter processes help you connect with top talent. You have a point of view on what great talent acquisition looks like at scale. You care deeply about data and tools, and you are curious to scale with AI and automation without losing quality or the human touch, recognizing that context is needed to ensure a fair and repeatable hiring process. You know that every candidate interaction shapes how engineers, leaders, and early career talent view Synopsys and its culture.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead a global TA leadership team and 80+ recruiters and shared services professionals across multiple regions, building capability, coaching leaders, and creating a high-performing organization.
• Partner with business leaders to develop workforce plans that anticipate hiring needs, support growth strategies, and respond to changing business priorities.
• Own the global Talent Acquisition operating model, continuously evaluating the optimal mix of internal teams, shared services, technology, automation, and external partners to meet evolving business needs.
• Own the global Talent Acquisition budget, balancing investments across people, technology, employer branding, and external partners to maximize business impact and hiring outcomes.
• Lead enterprise-wide talent acquisition transformation initiatives, including technology adoption, process redesign, AI-enabled recruiting capabilities, organizational integration, and scalable global hiring practices.
• Establish a data-driven talent acquisition strategy, leveraging workforce, hiring, productivity, and market intelligence to shape business decisions and measure organizational impact.
• Lead global vendor and RPO strategy, ensuring external partners deliver against quality, productivity, cost, and candidate experience expectations.
• Design and execute a global early career hiring strategy that scales university recruiting, internships, and rotational programs.
• Establish scalable recruiting practices that improve efficiency, candidate experience, and business outcomes globally.

The Impact You Will Have

• A global Talent Acquisition function that operates as a strategic business partner across Synopsys.
• Workforce plans that provide leaders with visibility into talent availability, hiring timelines, and organisational capacity.
• Faster, higher-quality hiring outcomes supported by the right people, processes, technology, and operating model.
• Candidates who experience a recruiting process that is professional, responsive, and reflective of the calibre of work happening at Synopsys.
• Recruiting technology and data capabilities that enable better decision-making, greater consistency, and a more scalable hiring organisation.
• Data and insights that influence business decisions and demonstrate the impact of talent acquisition on company performance.
• Early career talent pipelines that consistently deliver high-potential engineers and future leaders.
• A team of 80+ professionals who feel developed, supported, and connected to company priorities.
• Clear global TA KPIs that give leaders a shared view of hiring performance across region

What You'll Need

• 15+years' experience leading talent acquisition organizations within large, global technology companies.Experience in semiconductor, IP or EDA is a plus.
• Proven experience leading recruiters, recruiting leaders, and shared services teams across multiple geographies and hiring functions.
• Strong track record partnering with executive business leaders to develop workforce plans and scale hiring in response to growth, organizational change, or market shifts.
• Build an organizational structure that maximizes agility, impact and influence
• Deep knowledge of talent acquisition technology platforms, ATS systems, CRM tools, sourcing automation, AI-enabled recruiting tools, and analytics.
• Strong vendor and RPO management experience, including contract negotiation, performance management, and strategic supplier partnerships.
• Experience designing and scaling global early career and university recruiting programs.
• Experience leading large-scale talent acquisition transformation initiatives, including technology implementations, process redesign, or organisational integrations.

Who You Are

• You can go into a room with a CFO, Chief People Officer, and VP of Engineering and speak their language, translating hiring challenges into business impact.
• You know how to diagnose whether a hiring challenge is rooted in sourcing, process, technology, market conditions, operating model design, or team capability.
• You manage globally distributed teams with clarity, trust, and accountability, and your leaders understand what great performance looks like.
• You are comfortable challenging assumptions when hiring plans do not align with market realities or when existing approaches are no longer effective.
• You are committed to delivering a strong candidate experience, ensuring candidates are treated with professionalism, respect, and care throughout the hiring process. You also know how important the hiring manager experience is, so you make sure hiring managers have a responsive, open, and reliable partner at every stage.

The Team You'll Be Part Of

You will join our global People and Places team and lead a Professional Talent Acquisition leadership team and 80+ recruiters and shared services professionals who support hiring across all functions and geographies at Synopsys. You will work closely with our Executive Talent Acquisition team to ensure appropriate handoffs and provide support as needed.

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.

In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.