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Illumio, a leader in ransomware and breach containment, is seeking a Director of Global Talent Acquisition Operations and Programs to architect and lead the company's AI-native talent acquisition operating system. Reporting to the Global TA leader, you will own the strategy, design, and execution of Illumio's talent acquisition operations across a distributed global organization.
Key Responsibilities:
You will define and deliver a multi-year TA operations, programs, and transformation strategy aligned with global hiring priorities. You will design the global operating model, including ownership, decision rights, service standards, governance, and clear handoffs across recruiting, People Operations, IT, Workplaces, and regional stakeholders. You will architect Illumio's AI-native TA Operating System, connecting Ashby and other approved tools into governed end-to-end workflows.
You will redesign work across the recruiting lifecycle by determining what to automate, augment, keep human-led, or eliminate, with clear metrics for speed, quality, experience, capacity, and risk. You will own the portfolio and lifecycle of AI agents and automations, including business cases, data boundaries, human review, quality testing, impact measurement, and criteria to scale, modify, pause, or retire capabilities.
You will build the Talent Intelligence and knowledge layer, including market maps, search blueprints, calibration learning, source outcomes, and reusable role-family insights. You will establish disciplined AI experimentation and governance with People Analytics, IT, Security, Privacy, and Legal partners while preserving human ownership of assessment, selection decisions, and candidate relationships.
You will create decision-oriented executive reporting and operating reviews synthesizing hiring-plan risk, capacity, funnel health, aging requisitions, market signals, source effectiveness, candidate experience, quality, and cost. You will set strategy and operating model for global early career and university recruiting, including workforce demand, partnerships, events, selection, intern and new-graduate experience, and conversion outcomes.
You will lead a portfolio of global TA programs such as interviewer enablement, candidate experience, talent communities, referrals, compliance, vendor management, and recruiting-team effectiveness. You will lead, coach, and create accountability for a distributed global team of five contractors and partner across People, Finance, IT, Security, Privacy, Legal, Procurement, Communications, and the business.
You will own portfolio governance, budget priorities, vendor strategy, and the longer-term organization and resourcing plan for TA operations and programs. You will lead the people side of transformation through role-based enablement, champions, office hours, release communications, learning from failures, and new capability expectations for recruiters and TA Operations.
The role is based at Illumio's Sunnyvale headquarters and requires four days on site each week.
Requirements:
• Twelve or more years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition operations, recruiting programs, People Operations, or a closely related field, including significant leadership of complex global work.
• A record of building or scaling Talent Acquisition operations in a fast-moving technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, or similarly complex global environment.
• Experience architecting AI-enabled operating models or enterprise workflow transformation, including agent or automation portfolios, experimentation, governance, adoption, and measurement.
• The ability to translate operating problems into workflow, technology, and data requirements; engineering depth is not required.
• Deep working knowledge of recruiting systems, process design, data governance, analytics, dashboards, and executive reporting; experience with Ashby or a comparable applicant tracking platform is valuable.
• Sound judgment about privacy, security, fairness, data boundaries, and where technology improves outcomes versus where human ownership must remain central.
• Experience building early career, internship, university recruiting, or other enterprise talent programs with clear business outcomes and measurable return on investment.
• Strong program and portfolio management skills, including prioritization, implementation, change leadership, vendor management, budgeting, risk management, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed employees and contingent professionals, designing organizations, setting functional priorities, and building capability and accountability through change.
• Executive presence, business and financial acumen, high integrity, and the ability to influence senior leaders and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
