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The India Recruiting Team

Are you a builder who thrives solving ambiguous challenges who isn’t afraid to move quickly and lead others? Okta is looking for a Technical Talent Acquisition leader in India!

The Opportunity

In the Sr. Manager of Recruiting role you will be responsible for building and growing the Innovation Center for Okta in India! The right candidate will be the ground floor owner and builder of both the Recruiting team and business across all functions with a heavy emphasis on Engineering and Product hiring. 

Reporting back to the APJ Recruiting Leader, this leader will have vast ownership and say in how Okta positions itself in the market for tech talent among other verticals and for creating a world class internal culture that the best of the best want to be a part of. In this unique, first of its kind role, you will be expected to balance work across global geographies while acting as the market expert and owner of our newest growth center. Come join us!

What you’ll be doing 

• Align key talent initiatives and resources with Okta's core business objectives  
• Organizational design; building an effective organization designed to deliver at scale in a hyper-growth Company
• Strategic Account Management - partner with key Product Unit leaders and managers to ensure hiring of the right talent at the right time.
• Partnership & Influence - Work closely with Finance & HR leaders to deliver short & long term talent solutions that drive growth & efficiency 
• People Leader - manage, lead, grow and develop a high performing team of Recruiters and other key Recruiting talent
• Operational Excellence – drive efficiencies that scale; metrics, process, technology 
• Instrument and align operating rhythms that ensure the team hits established KPI's
• Seen as a Brand Ambassador and steward of talent for Okta

What you’ll bring to the role

• 10+ years in Recruiting business facing roles with experience recruiting across Engineering and Product
• Demonstrated experience building and partnership of internal and external talent branding (referral drives, tech talks, webinars, LinkedIn campaigns, blog posts, etc) is required 
• 4+ years of demonstrated building growing Recruiting teams in the India geographical market
• 4+ years of direct people management of teams of 4 or more individual contributors
• 4+ years of direct partnership with internal business leadership (VP+) and partners (HR, Finance, Ops, compensation, benefits teams) building strategy and hiring execution plans
• Direct experience working across global locations and time zones and influencing without ownership in a dotted-line organizational structure
• Direct experience building and sharing retroactive and forward-looking analytics with internal stakeholders on the talent market and internal success metrics in Recruiting (hires, run rates, acceptance rates, talent availability, and more)
• Demonstrated ability to balance short & long; you understand the need to meet short-term goals while planning for future growth and scale

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

• 4+ years of direct ownership, having built and scaled a business center of excellence site in the India market, Bengaluru is highly preferred
• Program/Project management experience within the talent acquisition space
• Employee relations or HRBP experience 
• Intellectually Curious, you never stop looking for ways to make the business, yourself or your team better at what we do, hire great talent

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

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging 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/.

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