Director, Global Tech Recruiting
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https://rewards.okta.com/us. The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Franci
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Listing Details
- Posted
- September 17, 2026
- First seen
- September 19, 2026
- Last seen
- October 6, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 17
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 47%
- Scored at
- October 6, 2026
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