Sr. Talent Acquisition Manager

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

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What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Strategy and Workforce Planning

·       Translate annual and quarterly headcount plans into actionable hiring plans, recruiter capacity models and sourcing strategies for each business group.

·       Provide leaders with labor market intelligence on talent availability, compensation trends and competitor hiring activity to inform decisions on location, level and timing.

·       Anticipate future skill needs, particularly in high-demand engineering disciplines, and build proactive talent pipelines ahead of demand.

Team Leadership and Development

·       Lead, coach and develop talent acquisition team,  setting clear goals, balancing workload and holding regular performance and career conversations.

·       Build recruiting capability through structured development in sourcing techniques, structured interviewing, offer negotiation and effective use of recruiting technology.

·       Foster a collaborative, accountable and data-driven team culture that consistently meets its service commitments to the business.

Full-Cycle Recruiting and Business Partnership

·       Serve as the senior recruiting advisor to business and HR leaders on role design, level calibration, interview panel composition and selection criteria.

·       Personally manage searches for senior, niche and business-critical positions, including hard-to-fill technical roles.

·       Ensure a consistent, well-run hiring process from requisition approval through offer acceptance, and drive timely decisions with hiring managers at every stage.

·       Partner with Compensation and Benefits on competitive, internally equitable offers, and with HR Business Partners and hiring managers on a smooth handoff into onboarding.

Employer Branding and Candidate Experience

·       Strengthen KLA's employer brand in Taiwan through campus partnerships, industry events, professional communities and digital channels.

·       Design and govern a candidate experience that is responsive, respectful and consistent at every stage, and act on candidate feedback.

·       Lead university and early-career recruiting, including internship and new-graduate hiring, in partnership with academic institutions and business leaders.

Process, Systems and Analytics

·       Own the regional recruiting process, policies and hiring standards, and drive continuous improvement in speed, quality and cost.

·       Maximize adoption and effective use of Workday Recruiting, HiredScore and sourcing platforms, and partner with global Talent Acquisition and HR Technology teams on enhancements.

·       Define and report recruiting metrics, including time to fill, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, pipeline health and hiring manager and candidate satisfaction, and use them to set priorities.

·       Manage search agencies, job boards and recruitment marketing vendors, including selection, contracts, performance reviews and budget.

Compliance and Governance

·       Ensure hiring practices comply with Taiwan labor regulations, KLA policies and data privacy requirements, and maintain complete, audit-ready records in Workday.

·       Champion fair, structured and inclusive selection practices, including diverse candidate slates and consistent interview standards across all hiring teams.

Minimum Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology or a related field.
• Ten or more years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including at least four years leading and developing recruiting teams.
• Demonstrated success recruiting engineering and technical talent in the semiconductor, high-tech manufacturing or related industries.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on workforce planning and advising on complex, high-visibility searches.
• Strong command of recruiting metrics and analytics, with the ability to turn data into insight and action.
• Working knowledge of applicant tracking systems, ideally Workday Recruiting, together with sourcing tools and recruitment marketing channels.
• Solid understanding of Taiwan employment law and hiring compliance requirements.
• Professional fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English, both written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a global, matrixed organization, working across time zones with regional and corporate HR functions.
• Background in employer branding, university relations or early-career program management.
• Experience leading recruiting technology implementations or process transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to compensation practices, including offer structuring and market benchmarking.

Core Competencies

The competencies below describe how the Senior Talent Acquisition Manager is expected to operate. They form the basis for selection and for ongoing development in the role.

CompetencWhat It Looks Like in This Role

Strategic Thinking

• Connects hiring plans to business goals and anticipates talent needs before they become urgent.

People Leadership

• Builds a capable, engaged team through clear expectations, coaching and development.

Influence and Partnership

• Earns the trust of senior leaders and shapes hiring decisions through insight and candor.

Data-Driven Decision Making

• Uses recruiting analytics to set priorities, diagnose bottlenecks and demonstrate impact.

Execution and Accountability

• Delivers on commitments in a fast-moving environment and keeps stakeholders informed.

Candidate and Customer Focus

• Treats candidates and hiring managers as customers and designs every interaction around their needs.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.