Director/Senior Director - Recruiting

Workday's mission is to build the next generation of enterprise business services—Human Capital Management, Financial Management and Payroll—and deliver those solutions in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model.  Our efforts to date have earned us hundreds of global customers and industry accolades, including recognition by Forrester Research as a technology leader in Human Resources Management.  This success has lead to high employee growth company wide, across all functions.

• Develop programs and metrics to ensure, first and foremost, that we’re meeting the hiring goals of the organization
• Continue building the team – both in numbers and capability levels – including direct management and development of recruitment leaders over Technology, Sales and Marketing, Professional Services, Recruiting Operations and College Programs
• Develop the recruiting team footprint and methodology to support Workday’s global expansion plans, including readying the function to scale rapidly
• Work with Marketing, Employee Communications and HR Business Partners to revamp Workday’s employment branding and associated collateral
• Design and deploy creative pipeline generation methodologies, especially in hard-to-fill position areas
• Develop methodologies for tracking the effectiveness and efficiency of the Recruiting function
• Support the continued development of the recruiting operations functions
  • Process improvement and documentation
  • Role stratification for efficiency
  • Instituting detailed MBOs for recruiter evaluation and bonus calculation
  • Tighter recruiting vendor management
  • Recruiter certification programs
  • Employee referral program
• Support the implementation and further use expansion of Jobvite (ATS)
• Support the expansion and enhancement of Workday’s highly regarded College Program (Generation Workday)
• Work with Talent Management and HRBPs to develop predicative tools for recruiting
• Work with Talent Management to develop an internal “recruitment” methodology and process

• An approach to the recruitment function that blends the need to be efficient and high-volume in processes, while still maintaining a high-touch, service-oriented candidate and hiring manager experience
• 15+ years recruiting experience, including 2 or more years in a high-growth company
• 3+ years experience managing and developing others in the recruiting function, including management level individuals (and, preferably, managing remote teams)
• Recruitment experience in the Bay Area, especially in software companies
• Demonstrated success building a recruiting team including people, goals, processes and metrics
• Demonstrated success developing and deploying creative, effective candidate pipeline development methodologies
• Experience interacting with the executive level of a company
• Team orientation, but the ability to act independently
• Humility; the desire to give/share credit, rather than taking it
• Passion for coaching and developing others – both direct reports and others around you
• A sense of humor, fun and playfulness
• Flexibility and resourcefulness
• High integrity
• Natural service orientation
• Strong work ethic; bias toward action, implementation and speed
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presenting
• Executive presence
• (preferred) Global recruitment experience
• (preferred) Jobvite ATS experience
• (preferred) Experience using Workday HR