Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition

Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.

We partner with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers. Our products and services are focused on developer marketing, technical recruiting, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing. Our clientele includes Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and many other Fortune 500 names.

Reporting to our Chief Culture and People Officer, the VP Global Talent Acquisition will join our best-in-class People Organization as we scale. This individual will lead our talent acquisition strategy, building on and evolving our current recruiting and talent philosophy, programs and partnerships. The successful candidate will have a proven record of accomplishment of creating innovative talent acquisition strategies and programs and will be comfortable operating in an environment that prioritizes multi-stakeholder collaboration. The ideal candidate will have a depth of expertise in designing recruiting models across different geographies and employee segments, including engineering, product, operations, G&A and sales in high growth companies. Experience transitioning hiring operations from private to a public company operation is a plus; leading and operating recruiting in a public company is necessary. Our leader will possess a strong executive presence as they will interact with executive management and senior leadership teams. Our leader will also possess a strong customer service orientation ensuring programs and tools and interactions are frictionless and supportive of the Stack Overflow culture. Experience collaborating to build and leverage an employee brand in talent acquisition strategy and operations is required alongside a record of accomplishment of building teams of diverse talent.

In this role, you will

• Lead the strategy, design, and execution of the company's talent acquisition program to attract and retain highly committed, engaged, and talented employees
• Leverage knowledge of market conditions and competitive talent landscape while driving fairness and compliance in hiring and internal job fulfillment practices and policies
• Represent the company externally to build our talent brand and broaden pathways of opportunity into our company to ensure a robust and growing talent pool for our evolving needs
• Direct studies and analyses and engage resources such as specialized external consultants, executive recruiters and agencies as needed, to develop and refine programs and add recruiting capacity as needed
• Establish and measure key talent acquisition metrics to ensure widespread internal stakeholder understanding of our recruiting operations efficiency and effectiveness and deliver insights to enable future talent strategy evolution
• Drive employee awareness and understanding of all talent acquisition programs to ensure recruiting is a team sport with competence practiced in referrals, interviewing and selection
• Collaborate and partner with Stack Overflow's DEI, talent acquisition, people teams and business leadership to understand and proactively address key concerns in attracting, motivating, and retaining high quality, diverse talent.
• Oversee a team of talent acquisition leaders, full-lifecycle recruiters, coordinators, program, and operations managers ensuring that all members are supported in managing change as the company scales and are provided with clear expectations & direction and are empowered and held accountable to achieve their goals and perform their jobs
• Collaborate with other functions and external vendors and partners to bring technology solutions and processes to support the ingenuity and effectiveness of the team
• Partner with the head of total rewards to devise compensation and offer strategies that enable the company mission balanced with needs and expectations of talent Stack Overflow desires to attract and retain
• Oversee the design and implementation of talent acquisition communications processes within a 400+ and scaling person company
• Oversee the design, implementation, and operation of frictionless day-day processes to allow other functions such as people operations, legal, finance to be well-equipped to perform tasks dependent on recruiting strategy and guidance.
• Lead internal communication and partnering with executive and senior leadership team members to ensure collaboration, mutual understanding, and support for all aspects of talent acquisition strategy.
• Assessing and implementing TA technologies
• Experience building TA metrics and dashboards that calibrate against business goals and WFP initiatives
• Experience working in both agency and corporate settings
• Operational experience building and driving outbound branding through advertising, job descriptions, events and partnerships.
• Ability to lead in multiple directions through situational leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in recruiting and talent acquisition
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience working in fast-growth, scaling technology startups and larger companies - both private and public
• Experience scaling talent acquisition processes and systems
• Ability to interact with teams in offices around the globe. Post-COVID, willingness to travel
• Demonstrated competence in leading talent acquisition team through data and leveraging data and operations effectiveness to ensure equitable, fair, transparent hiring practices
• Demonstrated ability to attract and hire diverse talent

What you will get in return:

• Competitive Base Salary
• 20 days paid vacation
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and paid sick days
• Stock options
• Completely free health insurance (no copay, no premiums)
• 401K match
• Gym membership reimbursement
• If your role is not located in one of our offices.... We will reimburse you up to $2,000 to set up a magnificent home office.

If you want to work in our office... You will be in our headquarters in New York City, and enjoy additional benefits like free lunches, transportation reimbursement, and all the espresso you can drink.

Work Environment:

We are a remote-friendly team. Whether you work remotely or work out of our New York office, you will be part of a remote work culture that emphasizes online communication (Slack, GitHub, Hangouts, Zoom, Stack Overflow for Teams).

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

• For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Diverse teams build better products.

Legally, we need you to know this:

Individuals seeking employment at Stack Overflow are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, parent or caregiver status, ancestry, political affiliation, veteran and/or military status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by federal or state law.

But we want to add this: We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will be a better Company. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can, and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.