Position Overview We are seeking a transformative Senior Director, Talent Acquisition to lead the overall recruiting function and deliver a high-impact, modern, and scalable hiring experience across the organization. In this role, the successful candidate will partner closely with senior business leaders and HR stakeholders to align hiring priorities, shape workforce plans, and support business growth through innovative, data-driven talent strategies. This leader will oversee end-to-end recruitment strategy and operations, guide team performance, and drive process improvements that strengthen hiring outcomes, scalability, speed, and quality of hire. A key focus of the role will be leading the successful implementation and optimization of Workday Recruiting and related processes, while advancing the use of AI-enabled recruiting tools, automation, talent intelligence, and analytics to improve sourcing effectiveness, decision quality, operational efficiency, and candidate experience. The ideal candidate is an AI-forward talent acquisition leader who brings strong leadership, stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and communication skills, along with deep expertise in recruiting operations, team development, talent analytics, recruiting technology, and enterprise process transformation. They will bring experience leading large-scale systems and process change, including Workday implementation or optimization, as well as a thoughtful approach to the responsible use of AI and technology across the hiring lifecycle. They will also bring a fresh and creative approach to attracting top talent and play a key role in advancing and strengthening our employer brand in the market. Key Responsibilities Lead the global Talent Acquisition function across a broad team or portfolio, with accountability for recruiting strategy, delivery, team capability, technology adoption, and performance against hiring goals. Partner closely with senior business leaders, HR
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Position Overview: We are excited to introduce a newly created Senior HR Business Partner role, partnering directly with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to drive organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, and strategic workforce planning across the business. Central to the role is holding senior leaders accountable for their own growth as leaders: coaching them with the same rigor they are expected to apply to their teams, so that as leaders level up, their team’s level up alongside them. You will help drive effective people practices by balancing business priorities with employee experience and will play a key role in evolving Diligent’s HR operating model toward more strategic, AI-enabled ways of working. The ideal candidate is collaborative, business-minded, and solutions-oriented, with strong judgment, communication skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders – while being direct enough to hold them to account. Key Responsibilities Serve as a senior strategic HR partner to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for an assigned business unit or regional pod, leading org design, talent planning, succession planning, and coaching. Develop the people strategy for the business unit or function you support, in partnership with senior leadership, translating business strategy and objectives into a people plan that delivers maximum impact. Lead strategic workforce planning for the business unit — including how work is organised across people and AI agents — and navigating the balance between building AI capability and developing the human skills needed for the future in an AI-first organisation. Partner with the HR Director on implementation and functional roll-out of the broader people strategy. Lead the business unit’s talent and performance cycles, including goal-setting/OKR cadence, SLT-level calibrations, compensation review for the SLT-and-below population, and 9-box grid review. Drive turning workforce, engageme
Position Overview: We are seeking a Payroll Specialist to be responsible for handling all aspects of payroll processing across the entire organization, including Americas, EMEA, and APAC, in a fast-growing business. Strong experience managing UK payroll and knowledge of UK payroll legislation, tax, pensions, and compliance requirements is essential. The Global Payroll Specialist ensures that payroll transactions are well documented, executed appropriately, and completed on time. This role also supports the development of cost-effective and efficient payroll processes, including integrating newly acquired entities. Key Responsibilities Ensure on-time and accurate disbursement of all payroll transactions for Diligent’s employees for multiple international payrolls, while ensuring HR and Payroll records remain in synch. Work closely with Human Resources (HR) to facilitate and ensure accurate data entry of benefit, employee data, pay and other payroll changes into the payroll system. Creating and notating payroll journal entries in the general ledger (GL). Research and work with accounting to resolve payroll GL reconciliation exceptions to ensure proper recording of payroll transactions in the company’s ERP system. Review and audit timesheets and payroll reports, manage payroll cutoffs, and process payrolls timely and accurately. Assist in the maintenance of country specific payroll guidelines and applicable policies and procedures. Ensure all requests sent to the payroll department are resolved in a timely manner. Required Experience/Skills 3+ years of end-to-end payroll processing with global experience and management of third‑party international payroll providers. Experience with Workday Payroll is highly desirable, with the ability to navigate payroll processes, reporting, and employee data management effectively. General Ledger experience and a s
About Dot Collective We are a new generation consultancy based across UK and EU and founded on the premises of the engineering excellence and empowering people to make an impact. We work with all modern tech stacks and typically run agile scrum on all our projects. About you Are you passionate about data and its transformational powers? Do you like being able to make a huge difference in a limited period of time? We might be just the right place for you. Your key skills and capabilities: · Implementing cloud-native data platforms · Engineering scalable and reliable pipelines · Good knowledge of distributed computing with Spark · Understanding of cloud architecture principles and best practices · Hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud resources · Excellent python and SQL skills · Agile ways of working · Experience in cloud automation and orchestration using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform · Monitoring and performance tuning of cloud-based applications and services Nice to haves: (MLOps): Model Deployment & Serving – Deploy and manage ML models using MLflow, Azure ML, SageMaker, or similar, ensuring scalability and performance. Monitoring & Retraining – Set up model drift detection, performance monitoring, and automated retraining ML Pipelines & CI/CD – Automate end-to-end ML workflows We expect you to have some knowledge about how to architect, design, develop, deploy, and operate a data platform. Our promise to you We will always see you as a human being and will do our very best to support your needs and wellbeing – well-designed co-working and collaboration spaces, remote working patterns that work for you, parenting leave, sabbatical
Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? Code-generating LLMs and autonomous agents are revolutionizing how software is built and tasks are automated. At Cohere, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with these technologies for enterprises, and we’re looking for a senior member for the Agent Code team. You’ll be at the forefront of research and engineering, driving the development of cutting-edge code LLMs and agent systems that can interact with the digital world to solve complex tasks with minimal human oversight. This role is hands-on and research-driven. You’ll dive into the latest literature on code LLMs and agents, experiment with frontier models, and collaborate with a team of talented engineers and researchers to build scalable, production-ready solutions. At Cohere, we blend engineering and research seamlessly—everyone contributes to both, depending on their interests and organizational needs. We provide access to world-class compute resources, data, and talent to ensure you can do your best work. Note: We have offices in London, Toronto, New York and San Francisco, but we’re also remote-friendly! This team operates primarily between E
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. You independently lead the most complex AI deployments Smartsheet undertakes. You own the full engagement lifecycle from technical discovery through production deployment through solutions org handoff. You architect multi-agent solutions, design client-personalized MCP resource packs, and build the Deployment Kits that transform how 200+ solutions consultants and partners operate. You mentor junior FDEs, drive the intelligence loop, and present field findings at weekly Applied AI strategy sessions. You are building a function, not filling a role. What You Will Do Lead complex, multi-system AI deployments end-to-end scope, architect, build, validate, and manage the customer relationship throughout. Own the AI workshop program for your pod, customize modules per customer, lead technical sessions, translate outputs into production requirements, evolve content from field learning. Architect multi-agent solutions selecting the right coordination pattern for each customer’s workflow characteristics and compliance requirements. Design client-specific and industry-specific MCP resource packs that serve personalized intelligence from the server so every connected AI surface gets smarter for that customer automatically. Own Deployment Kit quality for your pod. If a kit is not documented well enough for a solutions consultant with no engineering background to follow, it isn’t done. Lead Solutions Enablement Sprints: transfer AI deployment patterns to solutions consultants and partners with training materials and certification crite
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. You independently lead the most complex AI deployments Smartsheet undertakes. You own the full engagement lifecycle from technical discovery through production deployment through solutions org handoff. You architect multi-agent solutions, design client-personalized MCP resource packs, and build the Deployment Kits that transform how 200+ solutions consultants and partners operate. You mentor junior FDEs, drive the intelligence loop, and present field findings at weekly Applied AI strategy sessions. You are building a function, not filling a role. What You Will Do Lead complex, multi-system AI deployments end-to-end scope, architect, build, validate, and manage the customer relationship throughout. Own the AI workshop program for your pod, customize modules per customer, lead technical sessions, translate outputs into production requirements, evolve content from field learning. Architect multi-agent solutions selecting the right coordination pattern for each customer’s workflow characteristics and compliance requirements. Design client-specific and industry-specific MCP resource packs that serve personalized intelligence from the server so every connected AI surface gets smarter for that customer automatically. Own Deployment Kit quality for your pod. If a kit is not documented well enough for a solutions consultant with no engineering background to follow, it isn’t done. Lead Solutions Enablement Sprints: transfer AI deployment patterns to solutions consultants and partners with training materials and certification crite
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Get to know Okta Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Auth0 and Okta Platforms enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box, we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. The Okta Technical Account Management Team The TAM team empowers Okta customers to deliver secure, scalable, and transformative identity solutions by acting as their trusted identity coach. We drive lasting success through elevated technical maturity, proactively guiding their identity decisions and long-term identity vision. We guide a customer’s strategy for customer identity, workforce identity, and security posture while driving value in Okta’s suite of products and, ultimately, retention at contract renewal. The Auth0 Technical Account Manager Opportunity This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced technical expert to join the TAM team. This role specialises in the Auth0 platform, which is an easy-to-implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform for Consumer and SaaS applications. Bas
From £163K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. As a Senior Manager, Solution Engineering, you will: Hire, coach, and inspire a high-performing team of Solution Engineers, driving career development, performance management, and continuous skill enablement. Support and coach your SEs as they partner with Account Executives to discover customer pain points, develop opportunities, and secure the technical win. Partner directly with senior customer technical leaders on strategic opportunities to articulate Okta’s platform value and secure technical buying decisions. Build deep relationships with key partner technical sales leaders to establish Okta as their preferred identity security standard. Partner with aligned Area Sales Directors to design, execute, and scale Go-To-Market strategies that consistently exceed regional booking targets. Align with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and peer SE managers to share best practices, track market trends, and support organizational scaling. Present on key Identity & Access Management (IAM) and cybersecurity topics at Okta events and industry conferences. Collaborate with HR, Finance, and Operations on workforce planning, budget alignment, and talent acquisition strategies. Serve as an ambassador between the field and headquarters, funneling critical customer feedback and product requirements directly to Okta's Product and Engineering teams. We are looking for demonstrable experience in: A proven track record of managing and scaling high-performing Solution or
From £69K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. We’re looking for a Sr. Product Marketing Specialist, EMEA with a foundation in core Product marketing (PMM) disciplines to drive regional go-to-market execution, product launches, positioning, and sales enablement across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). This role is perfect for a strategic marketer with a passion for storytelling, market insights, and equipping sales teams with impactful content. Based in London, you will collaborate closely with global and regional stakeholders to drive localised GTM impact by: Translating Global Strategy to Local Reality: Adapting global product positioning, value frameworks, and launch plans to align with regional buying behaviors and local industry dynamics. Bridging Global & Regional Teams: Serving as the strategic liaison between global and regional teams, ensuring regional market feedback directly shapes product roadmaps and global messaging. Tailoring High-Impact Collateral: Refining customer-facing narratives, campaign assets, and enablement tools to drive pipeline velocity across EMEA. What You’ll Do Regional Go-to-Market Execution Support product launches and GTM strategies across EMEA, ensuring alignment with regional needs. Localise global marketing campaigns for key and emerging EMEA markets. Optimise product messaging and positioning for diverse audiences. Sales Enablement Adapt global sales content for EMEA, ensuring relevance and effectiveness. Equip sales and partners with the right me
From £119K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. About the Role We are seeking a Pre-sales Architect to join our team of identity security experts. In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise and business acumen to drive customer success, helping organisations modernise and secure their identity ecosystems. As a trusted advisor, you will collaborate with enterprise customers, channel partners, and internal teams to deliver innovative identity and access management (IAM) solutions that align with business goals. This role requires a balance of strategic thinking, technical depth, and exceptional communication skills to translate complex identity challenges into solutions that address customer needs. You’ll play a pivotal role in accelerating sales cycles, enabling technical wins, and shaping the future of identity in your region. The Opportunity Reporting into the EMEA Office of the Field CTO, this role will be challenged daily to show prospects and customers how Okta can help solve their business challenges. We are searching for individuals that have experience deploying identity and access management solutions in large and complex environments. This hands-on experience and exposure to the operational aspect of real customer deployments is what sets you apart and provides credibility to the architectures you design and propose. Your proven experience with other products and legacy solutions will be invaluable when assessing a customer’s existing challenges and planning the
From £108K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The UK&I Solutions Engineering team guides Okta customers through their entire journey, from initial engagement to upsell and cross-sell, using their expertise in presentations, events, and meetings to ensure customers drive maximum value from our platform. We are looking for great teammates that can build sales presentations, product demonstrations, and educate customers (everyone from developers to product managers to C-level executives) on Identity Security. Okta’s Solutions Engineers empathise with customers and quickly discern their true technical needs by asking detailed and clarifying questions and presenting solutions that target those needs. You have the rare combination of technical savviness and business insight and you’re looking for a career where you can utilise both. As a Solutions Engineer at Okta, you will hone each of these skills by advising a diverse set of customers on what is possible using Okta’s Identity Platform. What you’ll be doing: Involved in all stages of the customer’s sales lifecycle in the role of trusted technical advisor. Building sales presentations, product demonstrations, and educate customers (everyone from developers to product managers to C-level executives) on the best ways to secure identity. Empathise with customers and quickly discern their true technical needs by asking detailed and clarifying questions and presenting solutions that target those needs. Using your technical savviness and business
From £114K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. About Okta for AI Agents Okta secures access for 20,000 organizations and billions of users. Okta for AI Agents extends that work to the agentic shift. Deploying an AI agent is not like deploying traditional software. You are putting professional work output into production, and it needs deep integration, continuous tuning, and change management. Every agent needs an identity, a scope, an audit trail, and a way to be shut down when it goes wrong. Most enterprises have not built this yet. We are. We hire builders who see the cracks in enterprise agent identity that everyone else has learned to live with. The Role You are the most senior technical field authority for agent identity at Okta. Where a Senior FDE owns the outcome inside one account, you own the patterns that every account and every FDE inherits. You take the hardest and most strategic deployments yourself, set the reference architecture the team builds from, and turn what the field learns into the direction the product takes. You still write code. You also multiply the people around you, and you are the person product and engineering leadership call when an agent identity problem has no precedent. Responsibilities Own the reference architecture. Define the canonical agent identity, delegation, audit, and kill-switch patterns that Senior FDEs deploy across the portfolio, and keep them current as the standards and the product move. Lead the hardest accounts. Personally own the most strategic, regul
From £193K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Are you ready to redefine the future of digital identity in the AI era? Okta’s UKI Strategic Account Executive Sales Team is hiring! Our Strategic Account Executives (SAE) are the visionary leaders who orchestrate and drive sales engagements for our most critical and prestigious UKI customers. In an era where Artificial Intelligence is transforming how enterprises operate, identity has become the new security perimeter. As an SAE, you won't just be selling software—you will act as a trusted, long-term advisor helping the C-suite safely navigate the AI revolution. You will build first-class Account Plans that map directly to your customers' overarching business strategies, digital transformation initiatives, and AI adoption plans. By championing value-based selling, you will translate complex technical capabilities into undeniable business outcomes, showing how secure identity is the ultimate enabler of modern enterprise innovation and ROI. You will collaboratively plan and orchestrate the execution of aligned account strategies, ensuring robust opportunity generation, deep relationship alignment, and flawless account governance. Expect to lead from the front: presenting Okta’s transformational proposals, negotiating high-stakes terms, and bringing down complex, multi-layered, seven-figure deals that deliver massive win-win scenarios for both the customer and Okta. Beyond managing existing relationships, you will hunt for new business leads that fit our idea
From £164K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Sales Team Okta has a vision to free anyone to safely use any technology by providing a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade platform that secures billions of Workforce log-ins every year. As an Okta AE, you will drive territory growth through both net new logos and cultivating relationships to develop and grow existing Okta Platform customers. With the support of your Okta ecosystem, your focus will be on consistent results and an unwavering commitment to our customers. Enterprise Account Executive You will be focused on providing value to C-Suite decision makers on their ability to drive the most secure environment possible for their workforce. You will consistently drive territory growth through driving both net new logos and cultivating and growing existing Okta customers in the smaller Enterprise space. As an Enterprise Account Executive you will... Proactive drive top of funnel activity to drive net new pipeline generation. Run every sales cycle with a methodical and controlled MEDDPICC sales approach. Adhere to strong operational excellence with thorough territory planning and accurate forecasting mindset. Multithread throughout your customer base ensuring you're targeting both business and technical audiences and evangelise the value proposition for each. Scope, negotiate and close agreements to consistently meet and exceed revenue quota targets Holistically embrace, access, and utilise Okta partners to i
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