Senior Director, Talent Acquisition
$200,000–$240,000 year
HybridNew York, United States
Job Summary
Lead the global Talent Acquisition function by aligning workforce plans with business leaders, overseeing end-to-end recruitment execution from requisition creation through onboarding, and driving process improvements for scalability and speed. Implement and optimize Workday Recruiting workflows while advancing an AI-enabled sourcing strategy using automation, talent intelligence, and predictive insights to improve pipeline strength and hiring outcomes. Establish metrics for efficiency and effectiveness, coach the team on data literacy and AI fluency, and manage change efforts for recruiting transformation while maintaining ethical standards for responsible AI use in hiring.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience leading talent acquisition across a broad team, function, or portfolio, with accountability for hiring delivery, capability building, and performance against recruiting goals.
- Strong leadership and business partnering skills, with the ability to work closely with senior business leaders, HRBPs, budget stakeholders, and cross-functional partners to align hiring priorities, workforce plans, and recruiting strategy.
- Deep understanding of the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including requisition creation, job posting, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offers, preboarding, and onboarding handoff.
- Demonstrated experience leading the implementation, optimization, or transformation of recruiting technology, ideally including Workday Recruiting or a comparable enterprise ATS.
- Experience evaluating and implementing emerging AI solutions and recruiting technologies in a way that improves both efficiency and quality without compromising candidate experience, hiring rigor, or compliance.
- Demonstrated experience using AI-enabled recruiting tools, automation, talent data, and recruiting technologies to improve sourcing effectiveness, recruiter productivity, operational efficiency, decision quality, and hiring outcomes.
- Strong market awareness and strategic judgment, with the ability to guide sourcing strategy, share talent insights, and support informed hiring decisions in a competitive environment.
- Strong knowledge of recruiting best practices, including structured screening, inclusive interviewing, and delivering a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience across the hiring process.
- Strong analytical capability, with experience defining success metrics and using data to drive continuous improvement across recruiting performance, quality of hire, operational outcomes, and technology adoption.
- Experience leading change management, process redesign, stakeholder adoption, and operational enablement in support of recruiting transformation.
- Understanding of responsible AI principles and the ability to balance innovation with sound judgment, compliance, and equitable hiring practices.
- Excellent communication skills, strategic thinking, and operational discipline, with the ability to lead change and influence stakeholders across the organization.
- Must be able to work onsite at least 50% of the time.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Workday Recruiting and related Workday tools, including implementation support, reporting, workflow optimization, user adoption, governance, and process enablement.
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