
Director, Talent Acquisition Excellence
Pure StoragePosted June 10, 2025
Santa Clara, California
$205k - $328k
Full Time
Job Description
The role involves leading data-driven talent acquisition workforce planning, capacity modeling, and performance analytics to optimize recruiting strategies and support business growth in a high-tech, fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- •Shape and execute data-driven talent acquisition workforce planning and capacity modeling
- •Develop and maintain performance metrics and dashboards to measure TA effectiveness
- •Identify capacity risks and propose solutions to optimize recruiting resources
- •Lead quarterly and annual recruiting planning in collaboration with finance and business leaders
- •Align recruiting capacity with business priorities and budget constraints
- •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to connect recruiting strategy with broader workforce and business plans
Requirements
- •Minimum of 2 years of experience in Talent Acquisition managing capacity, demand planning, and metrics.
- •At least 7 years of experience in People Analytics, Performance or Workforce Planning, ideally within a fast-paced SaaS or tech company.
- •Proven ability to build and scale performance frameworks, capacity models, and planning tools.
- •Strong analytical mindset with proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets.
- •Experience working with ATS, CRM, and reporting tools such as Greenhouse, Workday, Ashby, Tableau, etc.
- •Skilled at connecting data to decision-making, with excellent storytelling and stakeholder management skills.
- •Comfortable in a hands-on role where building processes and influencing executive strategy are required.
- •Ability to build and maintain scalable Talent Acquisition capacity models to forecast hiring demand versus recruiter bandwidth, by function and region.
- •Ability to set baseline performance metrics (e.g., hires per recruiter, sourcer ratios, coordinator bandwidth) to inform hiring strategy and budget planning.
- •Experience identifying capacity risks and proposing solutions such as contractor usage, team structure adjustments, or recruiter redeployment.
- •Experience defining and evolving KPIs that drive accountability and effectiveness across Talent Acquisition.
- •Ability to partner with TA Operations and People Analytics to ensure dashboards, reports, and insights support weekly, monthly, and quarterly business rhythms.
- •Experience translating complex data into actionable insights for TA leaders and executive stakeholders.
- •Experience leading quarterly and annual recruiting planning in partnership with Finance and Business leaders.
- •Ability to help optimize recruiter, sourcer, and coordinator mix (inbound, outbound, generalist, specialist, FTE, contractor) to support hiring goals.
- •Experience ensuring recruiting capacity aligns with shifting business priorities while staying within budget.
- •Ability to work closely with TA Leadership, HRBPs, People Analytics, and Finance to connect recruiting strategy with broader workforce and business plans.
- •Experience participating in strategic plans for hiring and ensuring alignment with business growth and transformation.
- •Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- •Willingness to work in an in-office environment at the Santa Clara, CA office in compliance with company policies.
Benefits
- •Annual base salary range of 205,000 - 328,000 USD
- •Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
- •Flexible time off
- •Wellness resources
- •Company-sponsored team events
- •In-office work environment at Santa Clara, CA
- •Accommodations for candidates with disabilities
- •Diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability initiatives
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