Director, Talent Acquisition - Product Business Group

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• For eight straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
• And, our 4,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

At Pure, our Human Resources team is #OneHR and this is your place to Stand Out. Come join us and help Pure win by driving a culture of excellence and impact by delivering scalable and meaningful People programs and experiences through our HR functions and teams.  

The role:

We are looking for an exceptional leader to run our PBG (Product Business Group) recruiting function in the Americas. This is a highly strategic role that will partner with our key leaders that include our: General Managers, VPs of Engineering and Product Management.
This role is critical-path in connecting our business direction, longer-term talent objectives, and relevant external talent trends and pressures to localize and adapt TA strategy for healthy growth in the Americas.  The role is responsible for a recruiting team and part of a leadership team ready to globalize our pursuit of excellence in talent acquisition. 

Your impact: 

• Workforce Planning: 
• Proactively & directly engage with our business leaders (General Managers, VPs of Engineering and Product Management), HR  and Finance business partners to connect talent strategy and talent attraction execution plans.

• Talent attraction tactics:
• You build proactive prospect pipelines based on commonality of roles and skills by function and location, in partnership with business leaders.
• You devise innovative tactics to attract the best talent. 
• You have experience with current trends that lead to building pipelines of relevant target candidates regardless of the role.

• Team leadership:

• Based in Mountain View, California, the role requires weekly onsite presence to engage with teams across the company. You lead a hybrid team (weekly in office presence) reporting directly into you and global team members in a matrix organization. 
• You are in pursuit of continuous improvement and high quality deliverables.
• You act at the highest level of the organization, engaging with business leaders who have responsibility for global organizations and represent their interests accordingly.
• You embrace the power of diverse perspectives, lead through inclusion to get to the best answers and perpetuate shared ownership. 
• You make the best decisions for our customers, the company and the organization.
• You partner successfully with our business leaders to pursue TA strategies that not only attract top talent but you have a well defined methodology for proactive communication internally with key stakeholders.

• Technology: 
• You are savvy in leveraging all systems available to your team, and responsible for data integrity. 

• Operational Excellence: 

• You run your talent acquisition team like a business and leverage customer service and operational skills to deliver on time and increase productivity.
• You communicate the function strategy, tactics and results to stakeholders on a weekly basis , creating transparency of key performance indicators,
• You view your business as vital to the success of the company and inspect the health of the pipeline to anticipate necessary course correction.

This role