Director, Talent Acquisition – Brands
Core
Lead recruiting strategy and execution for Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta, supporting design, creative, product development, merchandising, and marketing functions.
Role type
Senior Director, Talent Acquisition (Brands)
Builds
Talent pipelines and hiring strategies for design, creative, product, and brand functions across multiple apparel brands.
Domain
Apparel & Fashion Retail
Required skills
Strategic talent planning, team leadership and development, brand and product organization knowledge, market intelligence, data-driven decision making, change management, stakeholder influence, operational excellence, AI and recruiting technology adoption.
Preferred skills
Deep design and creative recruiting expertise, experience with executive search partnerships, internal mobility program support.
Technologies
Sourcing technologies, AI-enabled tools, recruiting data analytics platforms.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop the Brands TA team; own the Brands recruiting strategy; advise senior brand and HR leaders on talent needs; build external talent relationships and pipelines; lead recruiting across functional pods; build hiring manager capability; use recruiting data to diagnose and improve hiring outcomes; personally lead critical searches; partner on internal mobility and early talent programs; lead adoption of TA playbooks and technology.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on execution
