Director, Global Tech Recruiting
Lead and inspire a global recruiting team to deliver an elite hiring experience for technical talent at Okta.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 20 hours ago
What you'll build
- Lead a global recruiting team
- Serve as the primary talent advisor to senior executives
- Architect global technical headcount capacity models
- Partner with engineering leadership to refine interview processes
- Establish executive dashboards for talent metrics
Must have
- Demonstrated track record of leading global technical recruiting organizations
Practical constraints
- Requires 2 days per week in the San Francisco office
AI in the day-to-day
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Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Director of Global Tech Recruiting at Okta is responsible for leading a global team to implement a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy for the Product and Technology divisions. This role requires expertise in technical recruiting, data analytics, and capacity modeling, as well as the ability to collaborate with senior executives to align hiring practices with company goals. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in managing multi-tiered recruiting organizations within high-growth tech environments. The position emphasizes a culture of excellence and innovation in attracting top technical talent.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 2 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 18, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page September 20, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$175,000).
- Starts above 66% of 275 comparable director management roles in United States we track (median $200,000 across 120 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Director, Global Tech Recruiting role remote?
- It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in San Francisco, California.
- What's the salary range?
- Okta lists $224,000–$308,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Okta is hiring for this position in San Francisco, California.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets director candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Director, Global Tech Recruiting role at Okta.
From the original posting
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We are seeking a visionary and operationally rigorous Director, Global Tech Recruiting to define, drive, and own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy across our global Product & Technology organizations. In this leadership role, you will lead, scale, and inspire a high-performing global recruiting team to deliver an elite, modern, and AI-enabled hiring experience for world-class technical talent.
The Director of Global Tech Recruiting will lead a global recruiting team across the Americas, EMEA, and APJ. As a critical strategic partner to the President of Product and Technology, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Product Officer (CPO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and VP of Engineering leadership teams. You will foster a culture of technical recruiting excellence, deep market mapping, and cutting-edge sourcing innovation. You will hold the global organization accountable to hiring velocity, high technical bars, candidate quality, while championing an authentic engineering employer brand that attracts top-tier builders, researchers, and technical leaders at scale.
This is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area, requiring 2 days per week in our San Francisco office.
Role
- Global Technical Talent Leadership: Lead, mentor, and scale a global recruiting team; cultivate a high-performance culture rooted in deep technical domain fluency, consultative partnership, and continuous upskilling.
- Executive Technical Partnership: Serve as the primary talent advisor to senior engineering and product executives (CTO, CPO, CISO, VPs of Eng/Product), collaborating closely with FP&A, Tech Operations, Total Rewards, and People Partners to align technical workforce architecture with long-term product roadmaps and company strategy.
- Capacity Modeling & Technical Throughput: Architect and govern global technical headcount capacity models, leveling frameworks, and quarterly hiring targets; drive agile recruiter resource allocation to ensure predictable, on-target delivery across specialized engineering and product pillars.
- Hiring Bar, Assessment & Candidate Experience: Partner with engineering leadership to continuously standardize and refine technical interview rubrics, coding assessments, and system design evaluations; streamline the interview loop to eliminate bottlenecks, enforce strict SLAs, and deliver a white-glove, developer-centric candidate experience.
- Talent Intelligence & Technical Pipeline Analytics: Establish and maintain executive dashboards tracking full-funnel conversion metrics, passthrough rates by assessment stage, competitive offer acceptance trends, and specialized talent market mapping to provide actionable insights and demonstrate measurable ROI to executive leadership.
Results
- Proven Executive Technical TA Leadership: Demonstrated track record of leading, scaling, and managing global, multi-tiered technical recruiting organizations (including managing managers) within high-growth enterprise SaaS, cloud infrastructure, or frontier technology environments.
- Advanced Data & Capacity Fluency: Deep expertise leveraging full-funnel recruiting analytics, engineering capacity planning, and predictive forecasting to optimize technical recruiting velocity, interview bandwidth, and offer win rates.
- Macro Market Navigation: Proven ability to navigate complex competitive talent landscapes, engineer compensation structures (equity, sign-on, leveling calibrations), and overcome specialized talent shortages.
Relationships
- Cross-Functional & Engineering Ecosystem Influence: Proven ability to build trusted, highly influential partnerships across technical leadership, Engineering Operations, FP&A, People Partners, and Total Rewards to drive collective accountability, bar-raising standards, and seamless execution.
- Executive Presence & Technical Credibility: Exceptional communication, data storytelling, and negotiation skills, with the technical literacy and executive presence required to challenge, advise, and influence C-level leaders, Engineering Fellows, and senior leadership globally.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.
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