# Senior Recruiter, Engineering - Contractor

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: 108,000.00 - 135,000.00 - 162,000.00 CAD Annual
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Okta seeks a skilled Senior Recruiter to drive full-lifecycle recruitment and build strategic talent pipelines for the Engineering organisation across North America.

As part of the AMER Tech Recruiting team, you will be a trusted talent advisor responsible for sourcing, engaging, and delivering top-tier engineering talent while maintaining an "always recruiting" mindset in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

### Responsibilities

- Own full-lifecycle recruitment for Engineering and technical roles (Software Engineering, Site Reliability, Security, TPM, Product) across US & Canada, managing a flexible req load that scales with business priorities.

- Partner strategically with hiring managers and leadership to understand talent needs, define role scope, advise on talent gap mitigation, and challenge assumptions to ensure hiring decisions strengthen long-term organisational capability.

- Build and execute talent strategies that balance external hiring with internal mobility, creating sustainable pipelines that reflect commitment to diversity, inclusion, and high-performing engineering culture.

- Drive metrics-informed recruiting decisions by developing KPIs, analysing recruiting data, and using insights to optimise sourcing, candidate experience, and time-to-hire while maintaining judgment about data limitations.

- Leverage AI and automation to identify talent gaps, streamline candidate screening, personalise outreach, and eliminate manual recruiting friction,partnering with Engineering and Product teams to build custom AI-powered recruiting solutions that scale impact.

### Requirements

- 5+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and offer negotiation in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.

- Proven track record recruiting technical talent, with demonstrated success placing software engineers, infrastructure/DevOps, or security professionals in competitive markets.

- Strategic recruiting mindset with ability to advise hiring partners on workforce planning, talent market trends, and long-term hiring strategy,moving beyond transactional recruiting.

- Comfort with ambiguity and change; ability to thrive in evolving priorities, shifting business needs, and environments where recruiting strategy must adapt quickly to market conditions.

- AI-minded approach to problem-solving: experience identifying automation opportunities in recruiting workflows, comfort experimenting with AI tools for sourcing and candidate engagement, and ability to articulate recruiting challenges that could benefit from custom AI solutions.

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience recruiting in cybersecurity, SaaS, or high-growth tech sectors.

- Familiarity with recruiting platforms and ATS systems (LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, Gem, or similar).

- Track record building and scaling recruiting strategies in geographically distributed organisations.

### Salary

The salary range for this position is 108,000.00 - 135,000.00 - 162,000.00 CAD per year.

### Benefits

Note that this role is not eligible for Okta-sponsored benefits; Magnit will provide any locally required benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- recruitment
- talent acquisition
- strategic planning
- data analysis
- AI

### Nice to have
- cybersecurity
- SaaS
- high-growth tech
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Greenhouse
- Gem

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