Manager / Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition

About the role

The Netskope Engineering & Product Talent Acquisition Team partners with R&D leadership to identify, source, assess and hire candidates who meet our current and future hiring and diversity goals. We own and drive the recruiting process from the identification of needs and related sourcing strategy, through outreach, interviewing and assessment, offer negotiation and closing, and ensuring a smooth transition to the HR team for onboarding.

What's in it for you

We offer the rewarding experience of working with the best minds in the network & cloud cybersecurity industry, and the opportunity to help build and evolve the team that is changing the world through innovation, market leadership, and the scale, resilience, and performance of our global cloud security platform.

As a hands-on TA leader, you will be responsible for overall day-to-day team leadership, as well as direct ownership of your own searches. You will partner with TA leaders and local engineering leaders to define priorities and load balancing, define research and recruiting strategies, track weekly and monthly recruiting metrics, and grow your team’s capabilities through mentorship and leadership by example.

What you will be doing

• Partnering with TA and senior engineering leadership and hiring managers to identify and anticipate needs, load balance across the team, and develop sourcing strategies and targets that generate a consistent candidate pipeline.
• Playing a hands-on role in the day-to-day operations of the team, including performance management, reporting, and ensuring the team is making effective use of tools and following all TA SOPs.
• Performing your own full-cycle searches, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and assessing candidates, and using your knowledge of the competitive landscape, market compensation norms and candidate psychology to help guide the candidate and hiring manager through the offer negotiation and closing process.
• Acting as a player-coach in all sourcing and screening for open headcount, including cold call, email and LinkedIn outreach to generate initial interest, and deeper Zoom qualification calls before sharing candidates with the hiring teams.
• Acting as the in region point person for local engineering leadership
• Creating recruiting plans that increase our potential candidate pool and ensure a diverse range of candidates for current and future hiring needs.
• Helping to identify tools and process tweaks that improve our recruiting capabilities and efficiency.

Required skills and experience

• Ten (10) or more years of relevant technical recruiting experience, including a minimum of four (5) years of hands-on leadership of teams of five or more TAs.
• Proven leadership and mentoring skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong, proactive problem solving skills and the drive to get things done the right way the first time in a fast-paced startup environment
• The ability to work 2-3 days a week in our Bangalore office
• The ability to seamlessly transition between all stages of an end-end recruiting process and manage multiple searches for multiple hiring managers at the same time.
• Strong direct-sourcing skills including research / sourcing, cold calling, email and InMail outreach.
• Experience recruiting for product companies developing solutions for the enterprise that span cloud networking, distributed systems, big data engineering, cloud and network security, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing tools such as Gem or Greenhouse Sourcing Automation, regional job boards, etc.
• Direct experience working in an agency environment
• Discretion and good judgment is a critical required skill for this role as erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of functional and company operations.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required