Manager, Recruiting

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. 
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 
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The Okta Recruiting Team

Okta recruiting is re-imagining how recruiting is done. We are on a journey to becoming a proactive talent sales and marketing organization. The product we are focused on marketing to our customers, our talented candidates, is a career at Okta!  Our vision, why we exist, is “Connect the Best Talent with Okta. Everywhere.”

The recruiting team and the partners we enable to identify and acquire the world’s best talent via the Okta Talent Ecosystem. Once identified, we create engaging experiences for the talent we want to hire today (qualified and ready now) while nurturing relationships with the talent we want to hire tomorrow (qualified and ready later). We are investing in creating the best customer experiences, building a marketing team, and implementing a tech stack that includes automation tools. We are also finding, growing, and developing the best recruiting talent to join our team.  

The Manager, EMEA Talent Acquisition Opportunity 

Reporting to the senior director of EMEA Talent Acquisition, this role will lead the hiring efforts across all functions at Okta in Ireland and Spain across GTM, G&A & Tech. You will be a player-coach tasked with shaping the strategy, operationalizing processes, and delivering results that accelerate Okta’s growth and revenue goals. 

The core capabilities we seek in our leaders are building effective teams, developing talent, demonstrating self-awareness, driving results, and developing a strategic mindset.

What you’ll be doing 

• Trusted Advisor and strategic recruiting leader to EMEA based & Global leaders to those based in Dublin or hiring in Dublin to build winning hiring strategies for early career talent from interns grads to professional hires across GTM, G&A & Tech 
• Manage, mentor, and develop an initial small team of Recruiters, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment that aligns with Okta’s core values
• Utilize data and analytics to inform talent strategies, track progress against goals, and present insights to executive leadership to influence and drive business outcomes (pipeline, headcount forecasts, capacity plans, etc.)
• Re-imagine and implement operationally efficient assessment processes that deliver productivity gains in recruiting while providing best-in-class experiences for hiring managers and candidates
• Partner across HR, Compensation,  Talent Development, Workplace, &  Recruiting Leaders to build a best-in-class internal recruiting and mobility process
• Align and connect critical partners to deliver results for Okta: Sales, Services, Operations, Finance, HRBP’s, Total Rewards
• Presence – actively participate in cross-functional recruiting team projects that move our recruiting org to the next level

What you’ll bring to the role

• Demonstrated experience leading recruiting teams in a high-growth, ideally Enterprise SaaS company or similar 
• Solid understanding of capacity modeling for recruiting to ensure maximum productivity from the recruiting team, including leveling
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience hiring for Technical disciplines and GTM from intern, graduate, xDR’s, and inside sales to mid-market and enterprise sales reps to security engineers, G&A and beyond 
• Understanding of compensation/commission plans and an understanding of what motivates sales & technical personas reps to make a career change & technical talent in both Ireland and Spain 
• Experience building internal recruiting processes that deliver exceptional experiences for hiring managers and internal employees and make it easy for sales ops and finance to track
• Leverage strategic mindset to deliver projects from conception through to completion whilst balancing day-to-day demands from business and team
• Recruiting Team strategy ownership from ideation to execution in collaboration with the leadership team 
• Experience in managing and developing a team of individual contributors with great success 
• Demonstrates having a data-driven mindset with strong analytical skills and the ability to translate insights into actionable talent acquisition strategies
• Growth Mindset – even with all this experience, you are open to identifying new ways of thinking and teaching others
• Ability to build a strategic recruiting plan and implement operational rigor that helps the recruiting team exceed KPIs
• Understanding of key trends in the recruiting industry and how to stay ahead
• Best practice knowledge and ability to bring outside-in learning to Okta’s recruiting team
• The core capabilities we seek in our Leaders are: Builds Effective Teams, Develops Talent, Demonstrates Self Awareness, Drives Results, and Strategic Mindset

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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