Director, Recruiting Enablement & Programs

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.

This is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area, requiring 2 days per week in our San Francisco office.

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: Lead strategic university partnerships, diversity recruitment initiatives (HBCUs, HSIs, specialized student associations), and high-impact campus activations that elevate our employer brand.
• World-Class Internship Experience: Oversee end to end intern cohort programming from immersive onboarding and executive mentorship to high-converting return-offer frameworks.
• High-Volume Program Operations: Build scalable campus assessment days, digital candidate journeys, and high-velocity engagement models tailored for emerging talent.

Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence

• Lead & Mentor High-Performing Teams: Recruit, develop, and inspire a multidisciplinary team across Recruiting Operations, Coordination, and University Programs.
• Strategic Business Alignment: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, People team partners, Finance, and business unit leaders to ensure talent programs directly support company milestones.
• Culture of Excellence: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, analytical curiosity, operational discipline, and inclusive leadership.

What You Bring

• Senior Leadership Experience: 10 years of progressive experience across Talent Acquisition, Recruiting Operations, and/or Talent Programs, including proven success managing and scaling teams.
• Comprehensive Program & Operational Expertise: Track record of designing and running both global recruiting operations and high-volume campus/early-career programs.
• Strategic & Analytical Rigor: Deep analytical fluency with the ability to convert complex recruiting data into operational strategies and executive narratives.
• Change Leadership & Execution: Demonstrated capability leading complex, cross-functional programs and driving organizational change across global, matrixed environments.
• High-Bar Candidate & Stakeholder Centricity: Passion for elevating the candidate experience, building strong manager capabilities, and championing diversity and inclusion.
• Executive Presence & Collaboration: Strong communication and influence skills, capable of partnering effectively with C-suite stakeholders, Finance, and People team executives.

The Okta Experience: Benefits: Your Well-Being, Okta for Good: Social Impact, Employee Experience: Talent, Connection + Community. We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

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