Global Director of Technical Talent Acquisition, Fivetran
$183.2-229k
+ RSU stock grants
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
Automated data movement platform
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Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$183.2-229k
+ RSU stock grants
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- We are seeking a visionary Global Director of Technical Talent Acquisition to lead our talent acquisition teams, in partnership with our regional TA leaders
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Fivetran is a data integration company focused on one simple idea: making data easy to move and use. It provides a fully managed platform that automatically moves data from hundreds of sources into cloud destinations, helping team centralize information without building or maintaining complex pipelines. So, by handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes, Fivetran allows organizations to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time working on their data.
This approach has a real and growing impact, with more than 700 fully managed connectors, Fivetran supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments and keeps data accurate and secure as it flows into analytics and AI systems. Trusted by over 7,600 customers worldwide, the platform helps businesses standardize how data is collected and shared across teams, breaking down silos and making insights more accessible. And the result is a stronger data foundation that supports faster decision-making and innovation.
In 2025, the company's momentum was also recognized with a Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year Award and a finalist spot for Microsoft's Americas Emerging Partner of the Year. These milestones reflect its role in helping enterprises modernize data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and prepare for AI-driven workloads. By continuing to deepen its partnerships and focus on reliable, automated data movement, Fivetran is well positioned to carry this success forward as organizations increasingly rely on data s the backbone of future intelligence.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.7m
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)George graduated with a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Taylor Brown
(COO)Taylor studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level.
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