The Associate Director leads Oracle HCM Recruiting initiatives, managing global technology, program governance, and multi-country implementations while partnering with Talent Acquisition and stakeholders for strategic direction.
Grant Thornton is seeking an Oracle HCM Recruiting Associate Director to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below.
People & Culture (HRIS / HR Technology)
Position Summary
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.
Partnering closely with Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, People & Culture leadership, HRIS, Technology, Compliance, and external vendors, the Associate Director ensures Oracle Recruiting solutions are designed, governed, and delivered in a way that supports business growth, regulatory requirements, and an exceptional candidate and recruiter experience. This role typically leads a team of HRIS Recruiting resources and serves as the primary decision authority and escalation point for Oracle Recruiting solutions worldwide. This is an internal role that will be to support Grant Thornton specifically.
Key Responsibilities
Oracle Recruiting Platform Leadership
- 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.
Global Program & Project Management Leadership
- Serve as the program lead for large, complex Oracle HCM Recruiting initiatives, including global rollouts, phased regional deployments, new entity onboarding, and operating model transformations.
- Own end‑to‑end project governance, including scope definition, integrated planning, milestones, dependencies, risk and issue management, and executive‑level status reporting.
- 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.
Global Oracle HCM Recruiting Implementation & Deployment
- 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.
- Serve as the primary escalation point during deployments, ensuring rapid resolution of issues with minimal impact to recruiting operations.
Stakeholder Partnership & Governance
- 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.
Configuration & Solution Design Oversight
- Lead and approve complex ORC configurations, including:
- Requisition structures, approvals, and posting rules
- Candidate application flows (experienced, campus, executive and pipeline)
- Offer frameworks, templates, and integration points to Core HR
- Recruiting security roles and access models
- Oversee adoption of advanced capabilities such as Recruiting Booster, Talent Pools, Campaigns, and Recruiting Analytics, ensuring scalable and compliant global use.
- Approve and govern Pending Worker and pre‑hire configurations, including templates, legal employer mapping, work relationships, hire actions, and downstream integrations.
Delivery Excellence, Testing & Risk Management
- Establish delivery standards for design documentation, configuration quality, testing rigor, and release readiness across global initiatives.
- Oversee recruiting‑related SIT/UAT, ensuring test strategies reflect global business scenarios, multi‑country data considerations, and real‑world recruiting use cases.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data quality, regional readiness, change saturation, testing constraints, and vendor dependencies.
- Ensure all changes meet enterprise change and release management standards prior to production deployment.
Change Enablement, Adoption & Optimization
- Partner with regional Talent teams to support global adoption strategies, training approaches, and communications.
- Ensure recruiters, hiring leaders, and HR partners are prepared for system and process changes associated with Oracle Recruiting releases.
- Monitor platform usage and outcomes to identify opportunities for simplification, efficiency, and improved candidate experience.
Reporting, Insights & Analytics
- Drive adoption of Recruiting Analytics, OTBI, and dashboards to support TA performance, workforce planning, and leadership reporting.
- Use data and insights to inform roadmap priorities, process optimization, and continuous improvement.
Team Leadership & Resource Management
- Lead, coach, and develop HRIS Recruiting resources (Associates, Senior Associates, Managers, as applicable).
- Provide design guidance, quality assurance, and mentorship across configuration, testing, documentation, and support activities.
- Serve as the escalation lead for high‑visibility recruiting incidents and production issues.
Qualifications & Experience
Required
- 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.
Preferred
- Experience integrating Oracle Recruiting with Core HR, Onboarding/Journeys, OIC, HDL/HSDL, and reporting solutions.
- Prior people‑lead, product‑owner, or HRIS capability‑lead experience.
- Experience supporting broader Oracle HCM implementations or global transformations.
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
The base salary range for this position in the firm’s Chicago, IL, Downers Grove, IL, Cleveland, OH, Minneapolis, MN, Reno, NV, Denver, CO and Baltimore, MD offices only is between $152,000 and $228,000 per year.
About UsAt Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services ― and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non-attest offerings, including tax and advisory services.
In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland. The platform offers a premier Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent American and Irish audit practices. With $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland and other territories, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of 12,000 quality-driven professionals enjoying exceptional career-growth opportunities and a distinctive cross-border culture.
Grant Thornton is part of the Grant Thornton International Limited network, which provides access to its member firms in more than 150 global markets. About the TeamThe team you’re about to join is ready to help you thrive. Here’s how:
• Whether it's your work location, weekly schedule, or flex time off, we empower you with the options to work the way that it best serves your clients and your life. Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site.
• Here, you are supported to prioritize your overall well-being through work-life integration options that work best for you and those in your household.
• We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different — and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. See how at www.gt.com/careers
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Benefits:
We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits
- Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.
- Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.
Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.
Additional Details:
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