Director, Global Talent Acquisition (TA) Operations and Programs

Illumio•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•$229,000 - $275,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Illumio is seeking a Director, Global Talent Acquisition (TA) Operations and Programs to lead the development and execution of its AI-native Talent Acquisition Operating System. This role will report to the leader of Global Talent Acquisition and will be responsible for architecting the connected operating model, workflows, technology, intelligence, controls, and learning loops that power global hiring. The position is based at Illumio's Sunnyvale, California headquarters and requires four days on site each week. The Global Talent Acquisition team aims to build a disciplined, data-driven talent engine that hires exceptional people with speed, quality, consistency, and care, translating business priorities into hiring outcomes and creating a candidate experience that reflects company values. The team is evolving TA into an AI-enabled, intelligence-led function, using technology to remove routine work and surface better insights while maintaining human ownership of relationships, assessment, and hiring decisions.

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.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver a multi-year Talent Acquisition operations, programs, and transformation strategy aligned with Illumio's global hiring priorities.
Design the global operating model, including ownership, decision rights, service standards, governance, business rhythms, and clear handoffs across recruiting, People Operations, IT, Workplaces and other key stakeholders and regions.
Architect Illumio's AI-native Talent Acquisition Operating System, connecting Ashby and other approved tools into governed end-to-end workflows.
Redesign work across the recruiting lifecycle by deciding what to automate, augment, keep human-led, or eliminate, with clear measures for speed, quality, experience, capacity, and risk.
Own the portfolio and lifecycle of AI agents and automations, including the business case, accountable owner, approved data boundaries, human review, quality testing, impact measurement, and criteria to scale, modify, pause, or retire each capability.
Build the Talent Intelligence and knowledge layer, including market maps, search blueprints, calibration learning, source outcomes, and reusable role-family insights, so recruiting knowledge compounds over time.
Establish disciplined AI experimentation and governance with People Analytics, IT, Security, Privacy, and Legal partners while preserving human ownership of success definitions, assessment evidence, selection decisions, and candidate relationships.
Create decision-oriented executive reporting and operating reviews that synthesize hiring-plan risk, capacity, funnel health, aging requisitions, market signals, source effectiveness, candidate experience, quality, and cost.
Set the 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.
Lead a portfolio of global Talent Acquisition programs such as interviewer enablement, candidate experience, talent communities, referrals, compliance, vendor management, and recruiting-team effectiveness.
Lead, coach, and create accountability for a distributed global team.
Own portfolio governance, budget priorities, vendor strategy, and the longer-term organization and resourcing plan for Talent Acquisition operations and programs.
Lead the people side of transformation through role-based enablement, champions, office hours, release communications, open learning from failures, and new capability expectations for recruiters and Talent Acquisition Operations.