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When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.
The Sr Director – Talent Acquisition for Technology is responsible for designing and executing a comprehensive recruitment strategy to attract, hire, and retain top talent. This role oversees all recruitment processes, leads a high-performing team, and ensures alignment with business objectives and budgets. Acting as a strategic partner, the position drives workforce planning and uses data-driven insights to optimize hiring outcomes.
Our technical recruiting team is composed of experienced talent needing a leader who can earn the respect of this elite group while navigating a high-stakes, high-velocity environment.
What You'll Do
Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Own the end-to-end recruitment life cycle, from sourcing to offer acceptance. This is across Technology, Product and AI
- Collaborate closely with executives, department heads and HRBPs to forecast headcount needs, design strategic workforce plans, and align hiring priorities with overall company objectives
- Lead initiatives that strengthen our employer brand, positioning the company as a top destination for exceptional talent
- Source and attract qualified candidates across variety of platforms and leverage sourcing strategies for cold calling passive candidates to establish rapport and build a pipeline
- Develop data-driven hiring strategies that anticipate future needs, optimize team structure, and ensure scalable growth across functions
- Regularly provide insights and reporting to leadership on talent trends, pipeline health, and market intelligence to inform strategic decisions
- Act as an advisor to our technical leaders helping define role requirements in emerging AI spaces, and influence hiring approaches and decisions through deep market intelligence.
- Monitor the health of our technical funnel, proactively identifying opportunities and implementing rapid pivots to maintain momentum in a competitive landscape.
Talent Acquisition Team Leadership
- Manage a high-performing team of senior technical recruiters driving excellence through shared standards, technical calibration, and removing systemic friction, allowing your team to do their best work.
- Communicate expectations of team dynamics, performance, and relationship building with internal and external stakeholders
- Establish clear and concise performance goals for each team member and ensure open lines of communication on progress towards goals
- Identify opportunities for development, appropriate training, and potential certifications
What You’ll Need
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience inclusive of deep technical depth recruiting experience, within elite, high-growth Technology & AI practices
- Proven experience partnering with leaders who have an exceptionally high bar; you are a truth-teller who can push back, pivot strategies, and deliver results under pressure.
- Proven ability to design and implement successful recruiting programs with strong strategic, creative, and analytical skills
- Expertise in full life-cycle recruiting and operating within a geographically dispersed organization
- Exceptional negotiation skills with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively across all organizational levels, from staff to senior leadership
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal skills with diplomacy and tact
- Data-driven decision-making skills and knowledge of industry trends to diagnose problems and forecast needs, ensuring that "gut feel" is always backed by operational data
- Demonstrated track record of building scalable processes and systems from the ground up in high-growth environments
- Exceptional change management skills with experience leading organizational transformations and driving adoption of new processes or tools
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience building reporting frameworks, analyzing recruiting metrics, and translating data into actionable insights
Annual Salary
$195,000.00 - $315,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.