Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.
Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
The People Team is a dynamic force in shaping an exceptional employee experience through the seamless integration of employee lifecycle, global benefits, and compliance. Our programs, services, processes, and technology are designed to support our current workforce and to evolve with the needs of employees, customers, and stakeholders to foster Illumio’s growth.
As Illumio continues to grow, there are numerous opportunities to illuminate your future by joining a team dedicated to enhancing our talent pipeline, streamlining employee communications, optimizing performance recognition, and showcasing our values.
Role Overview
Illumio is seeking a Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition to lead and evolve our end-to-end hiring strategy as we continue to scale the world’s leading breach containment company. This leader will own our global recruiting strategy and execution across Engineering, Product, Go-To-Market, and General & Administrative functions—ensuring Illumio attracts, assesses, and hires exceptional talent with speed, quality, and rigor.
This role is both strategic and hands-on: shaping multi-year workforce plans while personally driving outcomes on mission-critical executive and technical hires. This leader will be a trusted partner to the Executive Team, a critical member of the People Senior Leadership Team (PSLT), and a key architect of Illumio’s public-company-ready talent engine.
Location: Illumio HQ; on-site 4 days per week
Reports to: Chief People Officer
Your Impact:
Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning
Partner with the Chief People Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Team to translate Illumio’s business strategy and Annual Operating Plan into a multi-year global hiring plan aligned to growth, product roadmap, and geographic expansion.
Lead Strategic Talent Planning to identify mission-critical roles, succession risk, and future capability gaps.
Collaborate with HR Business Partners and Compensation colleagues on the PSLT to advise executives and hiring managers on talent strategy, geographic location approach, and evolving talent market dynamics.
Global Recruiting Execution
Own hiring outcomes across Engineering, Product, Security, Cloud, Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, General & Administrative, and Executive leadership roles.
Ensure consistent, high-quality hiring practices across the United States, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific (APAC), and Japan.
Personally lead or quarterback select Vice President-level and above searches and/or partner with executive search firms as needed.
Talent Acquisition Operating Model, Metrics & Technology
Lead and develop our high-performing global Talent Acquisition organization.
Own Talent Acquisition systems and analytics, including Ashby, with accountability for time-to-fill, offer acceptance, and a defined quality-of-hire scorecard (e.g., 6–12-month performance signal, retention, and hiring-manager satisfaction).
Lead the roadmap for forward-leaning, talent-related artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to improve hiring speed, consistency, decision quality, and hiring manager and candidate experience. Partner with colleagues on their AI initiatives.
Employer Brand & Candidate Experience
Strengthen Illumio’s employer brand to compete for top-tier talent in the Bay Area and around the world.
Deliver a best-in-class candidate experience aligned with Illumio’s values and culture.
Governance, Compliance & Public-Company Readiness
Ensure recruiting processes meet public-company standards for consistency, documentation, and audit readiness.
Partner with Legal, Finance, People Operations, and Immigration teams to manage risk while maintaining hiring velocity.
What Success Looks Like
3–12 Months
Establish credibility as a member of Illumio’s People Senior Leadership Team (PSLT), helping to drive cross-functional initiatives.
In partnership with Finance, executive stakeholders, and other key partners, confirm the current fiscal-year Talent Acquisition goals and operating rhythm after reviewing team capacity, requisition load, funnel health, and performance-to-date against agreed metrics.
Augment the Talent Acquisition team as needed to strengthen partnerships with senior leaders and improve functional delivery across the company.
12–24 Months
Consistently strong hiring outcomes: maintain high offer acceptance and deliver quality-of-hire results against the defined scorecard.
Predictable, efficient closure of executive and highly technical searches, with clear slates and time-to-fill targets for priority roles.
A scalable, data-driven Talent Acquisition function ready for public-company scrutiny.
Your Toolkit:
15+ years of progressive talent acquisition leadership experience.
Proven success scaling Talent Acquisition in high-growth software-as-a-service, cybersecurity, or technology companies.
Deep experience hiring across Engineering, Go-To-Market, and Executive roles.
Strong executive presence and senior voice, business acumen, and data-driven decision-making capability.
Experience leading distributed, global teams.
Leadership Attributes
Strategic, pragmatic, and outcomes-driven.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and rapid change.
High judgment, integrity, and builder mindset.
A natural orientation toward and facility with our Illumio Core Values.
Why Illumio?
Illumio is at an inflection point in our growth—recognized as a leader in breach containment, with strong customer impact and market momentum. This is an opportunity to shape the company’s next chapter and scale a world-class public-company-ready Talent Acquisition function.
As Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition, you will join the People Senior Leadership Team and build on a strong foundation: a talented team, strong operational discipline, and a culture rooted in trust, rigor, and ambition, with our people and leaders at the center of everything we do. In partnership with the Chief People Officer, you will be a key culture champion who evangelizes our Illumio Core Values of Customer First, Always, Relentless Execution, and Onwards, Together both inside and outside the company.
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