Senior Director, Integrated Talent Solutions

Equinix • Toronto, ON

11d • $205,000 - $308,000

About The Position

The Senior Director, Integrated Talent Solutions (ITS) leads Equinix’s global talent acquisition strategy for its Global Operations and Global Markets functions. The role defines and executes enterprise-wide talent acquisition strategies that support business objectives, organizational transformation, and development of future-focused capabilities. As a trusted advisor to executive leadership, the Senior Director partners with the Executive Staff, People Team leaders, HR Centers of Excellence, and business executives on talent strategies, workforce planning, hiring approaches, and initiatives that support long-term growth.

The role is accountable for building and leading a world-class global talent acquisition organization that delivers strong hiring outcomes, differentiated candidate experiences, data-driven decisions, and scalable recruiting programs across regions. It leads talent acquisition strategy and operations, executive partnership, market intelligence, recruiting enablement, and people leadership for the function.

Requirements

• 20+ years of progressive leadership experience in Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Planning, or related disciplines.
• Significant experience leading global talent-acquisition organizations in complex, matrixed, multinational environments.
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing enterprise talent-acquisition strategies at scale.
• Proven ability to influence and partner effectively with executive leadership and C-suite stakeholders.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams across multiple regions and cultures.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect talent strategies to organizational outcomes.
• Expertise using data, analytics, and market intelligence to drive strategic decisions.
• Experience supporting organizational transformation, digital capability building, and large-scale workforce-planning initiatives.
• Experience leading talent-acquisition enablement programs, recruiting technologies, and process-transformation initiatives.
• Experience with internal mobility, early-career talent, internships or apprenticeships, workforce pipelines, talent marketplace/build strategies, and alternative talent channels.

Responsibilities

• Advise executive leaders on talent risks, labor-market dynamics, and workforce challenges affecting business strategy execution.
• Partner with Talent Strategy, HR Business Partners, Total Rewards, and other People Team functions to develop integrated workforce-planning solutions.
• Work with Workforce Insights to provide talent analytics that inform hiring plans and workforce needs.
• Transform the Global Operations ITS function to support Equinix’s evolution as a platform company, including development of product, software engineering, digital infrastructure, and hyperscale data-center capabilities.
• Ensure global talent-acquisition programs, frameworks, technologies, and processes are implemented consistently across regions while allowing market-specific adaptation.
• Partner with Global Markets leadership to translate market growth, geographic expansion, and business priorities into forward-looking talent-acquisition and workforce strategies.
• Develop region- and market-specific talent strategies reflecting labor supply, competitive dynamics, regulatory requirements, skill availability, and growth priorities.
• Advise the Executive Staff and senior business leaders on talent-acquisition strategy, succession planning, executive hiring, and workforce readiness.
• Build relationships with C-suite executives and translate strategic priorities into proactive talent-acquisition initiatives.
• Consult on global and functional workforce plans, identify current and future talent gaps, and recommend solutions.
• Provide escalation support and timely resolution for critical talent-acquisition challenges and business-critical hiring issues.
• Establish scalable recruiting processes to improve speed, quality, efficiency, and candidate experience.
• Strengthen internal and external talent pipelines through sourcing, talent mapping, executive networking, and market engagement.
• Evaluate and optimize hiring practices to support diversity, inclusion, and belonging objectives.
• Oversee talent-acquisition technologies, tools, systems, governance, and operational programs that improve recruiter productivity and hiring effectiveness.
• Develop recruiting frameworks, standards, and best practices that create consistency and scalability across the recruiting lifecycle.
• Manage vendors, including recruitment agencies, executive search firms, talent-intelligence providers, and recruiting-technology providers.
• Drive employer-brand and external talent-attraction initiatives to strengthen Equinix’s position as an employer of choice.
• Use market intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and workforce analytics to inform talent-acquisition strategy and executive decisions.
• Provide talent insights, recruiting metrics, and labor-market trends to business leaders and People Team stakeholders.
• Analyze organizational capability needs, recruiting performance, and workforce trends to identify opportunities and risks.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for hiring, diversity, productivity, quality, and candidate experience goals.
• Share external benchmarks and industry practices to improve recruiting effectiveness and organizational competitiveness.
• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of Integrated Talent Solutions leaders and professionals.
• Foster accountability, innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Manage people-leadership activities, including performance management, compensation decisions, talent reviews, workforce planning, employee development, and succession planning.
• Build an inclusive, high-performing recruiting organization through coaching, talent development, succession planning, and leadership effectiveness.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program available to all employees.
• Health or healthcare insurance coverage, with options for eligible family members.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Voluntary or optional insurance and benefit plans.
• Retirement or savings plans; U.S. employees may contribute to a retirement plan, and Canadian employees may enroll in the DCPP, RRSP, and TFSA.
• Accrued paid time off, vacation or personal time, and paid holidays.
• Employees are eligible for a bonus; equity may be offered depending on the position.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed