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Director, Global GTM Recruiting

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hybrid executive full-time $224,000-$308,000 USD San Francisco, California

First indexed 17 Sept 2026

Description

We are seeking a Director, Global GTM Recruiting to define, drive, and own the talent acquisition strategy across our entire Global Go-To-Market (GTM) organisation including Sales, Customer Solutions, Customer First, Enablement, and Alliances & Partners.

In this leadership role, you will lead, scale, and inspire a high-performing global recruiting organisation to deliver a modern, technology and AI-driven hiring experience for candidates, executives, and hiring teams worldwide.

The Director of Global GTM Recruiting will lead a multi-tiered global recruiting team responsible for aggressive scaling across the Americas, EMEA, and APJ. As a talent partner to the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and GTM global senior leadership team, you will be responsible for fostering a culture of operational rigor, modern AI enablement, and proactive talent pipelining, while holding the global team accountable to critical velocity metrics, quality of hire benchmarks.

Role

  • Global Leadership & Team Development: Lead, mentor, and scale a multi-regional organisation; cultivate a high-performance culture rooted in consultative excellence, accountability, and continuous development.
  • Executive Business Partnership: Serve as the strategic talent advisor to senior-level GTM leaders (CRO, SVPs/VPs), collaborating closely with FP&A, Revenue Operations, Total Rewards, and People Partners to align global workforce planning with long-term company growth priorities.
  • Capacity Modeling & Target Delivery: Architect and govern global headcount capacity models and annual/quarterly hiring targets, driving agile resource allocation to ensure predictable, on-target delivery across all global regions.
  • Process Optimization & Candidate Experience: Continuously enable effective operational rigor, eliminate bottlenecks, hold accountability for SLAs and drive a seamless experience for both candidates and hiring panels.
  • Talent Analytics & Insights: Establish and refine executive dashboards, pipeline forecasting models, and comprehensive talent intelligence reporting to provide actionable insights to senior leadership and demonstrate measurable hiring efficacy and ROI.

Results

  • Proven Executive Leadership: Demonstrated track record of leading, scaling, and managing global, multi-tiered GTM recruiting teams (including managing people leaders) within high-growth, enterprise SaaS environments.
  • Scale & Agility: Proven success driving talent acquisition across both hyper-growth scale-ups and established multi-billion-dollar global enterprises.
  • Advanced Data & Operational Fluency: Deep expertise in leveraging full-funnel recruiting analytics, capacity planning, and predictive forecasting to drive operational efficiency and executive alignment.
  • AI & Technology Innovation: Strong forward-thinking mindset with hands-on experience integrating AI tools, automation, and modern talent acquisition technology into sourcing, workflows, and enablement.
  • Strategic Problem Solving: Proven ability to anticipate macro talent market dynamics, resolve complex hiring bottlenecks, and orchestrate alignment across diverse, global stakeholder groups.

Relationships

  • Ecosystem Integration & Influence: Proven ability to build trusted, highly influential partnerships across the cross-functional ecosystem (Finance/FP&A, Revenue Operations, and People/HR leadership) to drive collective accountability and operational execution.
  • Executive Accountability & Communication: Exceptional communication, storytelling, and negotiation skills, with the gravitas to challenge, advise, and influence C-level and senior executive stakeholders globally.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible spending account
  • Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
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