HRIS Oracle HCM Recruiting Associate Director

About the role

The Associate Director, Oracle HCM Recruiting serves as the strategic, functional, and delivery leader for the firm’s Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) platform. This role owns the global recruiting technology roadmap and leads enterprise-scale recruiting initiatives, including global implementations, regional expansions, and complex multi-workstream programs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the functional and strategic owner for Oracle Recruiting Cloud, including requisitions, job postings, candidate lifecycle, offers, hiring flows, and recruiting security.
• Define and maintain the global ORC roadmap, aligning enhancements and priorities to Talent Acquisition strategy, workforce planning, and firm growth.
• Provide strategic direction for recruiting process design, platform scalability, and user experience modernization, including Redwood UX.
• Lead and support global and multi-country implementations of Oracle Recruiting Cloud, including regional expansions and country-specific deployments.
• Ensure recruiting solutions appropriately accommodate global and local requirements, including regulatory compliance, data privacy, approval frameworks, and regional business practices.
• Own integration and handoff between Oracle Recruiting and Pending Worker processes, ensuring accurate pre-hire data creation and readiness for Core HR and Onboarding.
• Balance global standardization with regional flexibility, establishing clear decision frameworks for when processes and configurations should be global versus localized.
• Oversee go-live readiness activities, including data validation, cutover planning, access provisioning, training readiness, and post-deployment hypercare support.
• Partner with HRIS PMO, Technology, Oracle, and third-party vendors to ensure delivery aligns with enterprise standards, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate recruiting workstreams within broader Oracle HCM transformation programs to ensure alignment with Core HR, Onboarding, Compensation, Security, and downstream systems.
• Provide clear visibility into delivery progress, trade-offs, and risks, enabling informed decision-making by leadership.
• Act as the senior HRIS partner to Talent Acquisition leadership globally, translating recruiting strategy into sustainable Oracle configurations and delivery plans.
• Establish and enforce governance standards for requisition approvals, templates, job families, security roles, and recruiting data usage.
• Partner with Compensation, Core HR, Compliance, and Technology teams to ensure job data, offers, and hiring transactions are consistent, compliant, and audit-ready.
• Advise stakeholders on sequencing, readiness, and risk related to global recruiting initiatives and releases.
• Lead, coach, and develop HRIS Recruiting resources (Associates, Senior Associates, Managers, as applicable).
• Provide design guidance, quality assurance, and mentorship across configuration, sing, documentation, and support activities.
• Serve as the escalation lead for high-visibility recruiting incidents and production issues.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive, global experience with demonstrated depth in Oracle Recruiting Cloud.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale, multi-workstream HR technology initiatives.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end recruiting and hiring processes, including compliance, audit, and data privacy considerations.
• Experience supporting multi-entity, multi-country, or highly complex recruiting environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders across HR, Technology, and the business.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic platform and product ownership.
• Oracle Recruiting Cloud functional mastery.
• Enterprise-scale program and project management.
• Global implementation and deployment leadership.
• Executive-level stakeholder communication.
• Governance, controls, and global decision frameworks.
• Risk management and delivery excellence.
• Team leadership, coaching, and talent development.
• Change management and adoption enablement.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is between $152,000 and $228,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity.

Schedule

This position requires in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site.