Director of Technical Recruiting
Fivetran
People & HR, IT
Oakland, CA, USA
Posted on Feb 4, 2026
From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
We are seeking a visionary Global Director of Technical Talent Acquisition to lead our talent acquisition teams, in partnership with our regional TA leaders.
The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker who can thrive in a rapidly changing environment, has experience building technology teams, and who seamlessly blends high-level planning with hands-on execution, while providing data driven insights to evaluate and enhance the way we attract, engage, hire and retain talent. In addition to being an expert in their craft, this leader will need to possess a high degree of judgement and emotional intelligence.
In this role, you will define our global technical talent acquisition strategy in partnership with regional talent acquisition leaders, and business leaders. You will build strong relationships with business partners, mentor & inspire talent acquisition partners and talent operations on best practices, set key metrics and KPIs for our talent acquisition team, and create strategies for building a qualified, diverse pipeline of candidates for our positions.
This is a full-time hybrid position based in our Oakland Office. Expect to be in the office two days a week to collaborate with our leaders and teams onsite. Travel several times a year may be needed to attend team meetings, leadership training and off-sites. The role will report into the Global VP of Talent Acquisition.
Technologies You’ll Use
Greenhouse, Brighthire, Workday, BI Tools:Sigma, Looker, Pigment, Linkedin Recruiting, Linkedin TalentInsights.. And you will be constantly exploring new progressive tools that make our teams lives easier and more effective.
What You’ll Do
- Build a head count, hiring and resource strategy and plan for all our hiring needs in partnership with finance, HR, and our business leaders
- Manage and build a team of Talent Acquisition Partners creating clear team and individual hiring targets and goals, coaching the team on strategies to reach those goals and leading the recruiting team to success.
- Be accountable for overall team goals in line with industry benchmarks, measure recruiting reporting on a weekly/monthly/quarterly cadence, and make decisions informed by data. Produce an executive facing Monthly Business Review (MBR)
- Lead recruiting process creation, communication and adoption for all stages of Fivetran’s hiring processes
- Be a champion and leading example for Fivetran’s values, and continue to lead talent strategies that will result in attracting, hiring and retaining the right talent at the right time for Fivetran to achieve its mission.
Skills We’re Looking For
- You are an expert in your craft with 12+ years of Talent Acquisition Experience, and 7+ years of mgmt experience
- You’re a humble, natural people-manager. You’ve managed a talent acquisition team before, and you can establish trust, motivate, coach, set goals and lead like it’s second-nature.
- You have high accountability and ownership of the results from your team.
- You are a curious innovator, consistently doing research on relevant industry best practices in talent acquisition.
- You’re a strategic problem solver and process creator. You understand how to set clear, realistic (but challenging) goals and metrics, and can develop a strategy on how your team can achieve those hiring goals.
- You can identify recruiting process bottlenecks before they happen and know how to fix them from your prior experience in the field.
- You understand the full recruiting life cycle from end-to-end. You know the pain points and consistently have solutions for improvement
- You inspire and tell stories through providing data backed insight. As such, you have a strong analytical background using recruiting data to inform decision making.
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The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.
Oakland Pay Range
$183,222—$229,027.50 USD
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants*
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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