{"id":1134283,"url":"https://alion.io/job/granicus-director-talent-acquisition","title":"Director - Talent Acquisition","company":{"id":1264,"name":"Granicus","domain":"granicus.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/granicus","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US","IN","GB","AU","CA","NZ","AM"],"hiring_countries_total":7,"salary":{"min":120000,"max":180000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":180000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Teams","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T06:46:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T09:54:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"The Company\nServing the People Who Serve the People\nGranicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.\nOver the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve-driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.\nWant to know more? See more of what we do here.\nJob Summary\nGranicus is looking for a Director, Global Talent Acquisition to lead and elevate our global recruiting function. This is a high-impact leadership role for a talent acquisition leader who can combine recruiting strategy, operational discipline, people leadership, market insight, and the strategic application of AI to transform how we attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent across a complex, global organization.\nIn this role, you will own the global talent acquisition strategy, operating model, recruiting priorities, and performance expectations for the function. You will directly lead the global recruiting team and provide matrixed oversight, strategic direction, and operational alignment for the India recruiting team. You will partner closely with executives, HR Business Partners, hiring leaders, and cross-functional teams to ensure our hiring practices are scalable, inclusive, data-driven, compliant, and aligned to business growth.\nWhat Your Impact Will Look Like\nLead global talent acquisition strategy. Own the recruiting strategy, operating rhythms, priorities, and performance expectations for the global recruiting function, ensuring the team delivers against business hiring needs with quality, speed, consistency, and strong stakeholder partnership.\nLead strategic workforce planning. Partner with executive leaders, Finance, HR Business Partners, and business leaders to anticipate future talent needs, evaluate build-versus-buy talent strategies, identify hiring risks, and develop proactive talent acquisition plans aligned with business objectives.\nBuild and develop a high-performing team. Coach, develop, and hold recruiting team members accountable for results, while creating a culture of clarity, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nSupport executive hiring. Partner with senior executives on critical leadership searches, succession planning, and executive talent acquisition strategies.\nProvide matrixed leadership across regions. Partner with local HR and business leaders to provide strategic guidance and operational oversight for the India recruiting team, aligning regional priorities with global standards, metrics, and processes.\nPartner with executives and hiring leaders. Serve as a trusted advisor on workforce planning, hiring tradeoffs, candidate assessment, market dynamics, recruiting strategy, and prioritization decisions. Build hiring manager capability by providing coaching, interview training, selection guidance, and best practices that improve hiring quality and consistency.\nProvide talent intelligence to business leaders. Deliver insights on labor markets, talent availability, compensation trends, competitive hiring activity, and emerging skills to support strategic business decisions and workforce planning.\nDrive recruiting operations, metrics, and Own the recruiting operating model, ATS discipline, reporting cadence, and talent acquisition metrics, using data to identify risks, improve process effectiveness, and strengthen stakeholder confidence.\nAdvance responsibleAI-enabled recruiting. Lead the thoughtful adoption and optimization of AI recruiting tools and practices to improve sourcing efficiency, candidate matching, recruiter productivity, hiring manager insights, and pipeline visibility while ensuring appropriate human oversight, privacy, compliance, and bias awareness.\nManage recruiting budget and investment. Own the talent acquisition budget, vendor relationships, agency strategy, recruiting technology investments, and sourcing partnerships to maximize return on investment and hiring outcomes. \nStrengthen talent market strategy and employer brand. Translate talent market trends, competitive insights, and regional labor dynamics into practical sourcing strategies, pipeline plans, and employer brand recommendations.\nOptimizerecruiting processes and tools. Partner with HR Operations, HRIS, HRBPs, Total Rewards, and business leaders to improve recruiting workflows, systems, vendor partnerships, compliance, and candidate experience across global teams.\nYou Will Love This Job If You Have\nMinimum 10 years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including leadership of recruiting teams in a fast-paced, global, technology, SaaS, or similarly complex business environment\nMinimum 5years of people leadership experience, including demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and hold recruiters accountable for performance, quality, and stakeholder partnership\nExperience leading or influencing recruiting teams in a matrixed, global environment; experience partnering with or providing oversight to India-based recruiting teams strongly preferred\nStrong executive presence and ability to advise senior leaders on workforce planning, hiring tradeoffs, talent market dynamics, and recruiting strategy\nProven ability to use recruiting metrics, market data, and operational insights to improve hiring outcomes, process efficiency, team capacity planning, and stakeholder visibility\nExperience evaluating, implementing, or optimizing AI-enabled recruiting tools, sourcing technologies, automation, or talent intelligence platforms, with sound judgment regarding compliance, bias mitigation, data privacy, and human decision-making oversight\nDeep knowledge of full-cycle recruiting, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, employer branding, ATS usage, vendor management, and compliant recruiting practices\nAbility to operate at both strategic and execution levels, balancing long-term recruiting capability building with urgent hiring delivery\nExcellent communication, change management, prioritization, and cross-cultural collaboration skills; ability to lead through ambiguity and influence without direct authority\nPay Range\nUSD $120,000.00 - USD $180,000.00 /Yr.About Us\nDon’t have all the skills/experience mentioned above? At Granicus, we are trying to build diverse, inclusive teams. We do not have degree requirements for most of our roles. If you don’t meet every requirement above but are excited to learn more, we encourage you to apply. We might just be able to find another role that could be a perfect fit!\nSecurity and Privacy Requirements\nResponsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.\nResponsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.\nThe Team\nWe are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.\nThe Culture\nAt Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to bea part of our journey.\nA few culture highlights include - Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices\nCoffee with Mark sessions - Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important andsometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs.\nMicrosoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.\nWe bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employeepopulation\nThe Impact\nWe are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place - quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here.\nThe Benefits\nAt Granicus, we offer acomprehensive and flexible benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance-starting from day one. Here’s what you can expect as a U.S.-based team member:\nFlexibility & Balance\nFlexible Time Off - Take the time you need to rest, recharge, and live your life. \nCompany-Wide Wellbeing Days - Paid days off to unplug and focus on your mental health. \nWork From Home Reimbursement - Support a productive home office environment.\nHealth & Wellness\nMultiple Health Plan Options - Including a 100% employer-paid plan. \nEmployer HSA Contributions - When enrolled in a High-Deductible Health Plan. \nFitness Reimbursement Program - Stay active, your way. \nOn-Demand Mental Health Support - Access to Headspace and other wellness tools.\nFamily & Future\nPaid Parental Leave - For both birthing and non-birthing parents. \n Traditional & Roth 401(k) - With a generous company match. \nLife & AD&D Insurance - 100% employer-paid coverage for peace of mind.\nGrowth & Recognition\nOnline Learning Platforms - Fuel your professional development. \n Competitive Salary & Bonuses - Your contributions are valued and rewarded.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nGranicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10717,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":5,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible time off","Home office","Parental leave","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"},{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"},{"name":"Australia","iso":"AU","kind":"country"},{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"},{"name":"New Zealand","iso":"NZ","kind":"country"},{"name":"Armenia","iso":"AM","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Document Management","Content Management Systems (CMS)","Digital Government","Communication & Collaboration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T06:46:16Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:19","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":180000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/granicus-director-talent-acquisition","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/granicus-director-talent-acquisition.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T10:15:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}