Jake Foster

Head of Talent

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States19 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led talent acquisition during rapid company growth.
Expert in executive recruitment for tech industries.
Passionate about partnerships and shared accountability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruitment leader with extensive experience in talent acquisition and executive search.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTeam ManagementExecutive RecruitmentSales RecruitmentNetworking

Other Skills

RecruitingCollaborationCapacity PlanningStrategic PlanningWorkforce PlanningEvent SupportEvent ManagementInterviewsHuman ResourcesCoachingCall CentersSalesCustomer ServiceScreening ResumesWorkforce Management

About

Builder. Scaler. Excessive Dad joke/gif user. Passionate about partnerships and shared accountability to GSD! At Atlassian, I was fortunate to be a part of an amazing post-IPO growth trajectory, growing the company from ~1,200 to ~7,500 over my 4.5 years. I started as one of 25 global TA team members and left leading ~45 team members and 5 managers supporting our global GTM and G&A functions. At Red Hat, I was able to see the second rocket ship boosters kick in as we scaled from 5,500 - 11,000 during my time growing into leading our US Sales/Pre-Sales function, attending and running numerous conference events, and evangelizing all things open source!

Experience

19 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Gitlab

4 roles

Senior Director, Global GTM, G&A, and Executive Recruiting

Promoted

May 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Managing a rockstar team of Recruiting Managers and full lifecycle Recruiters focused on hiring key talent for all of our non-engineering business groups: Sales (Direct Sales, Customer Success, Solution Architecture, Channel, Professional Services, Revenue Operations, and Enablement), Marketing, Data & Analytics, IT, People, Legal, and Finance across NORAM, EMEA, and APJ. Collaborating cross-functionally with our Finance, Legal, Sales Ops/Strategy, and People teams on capacity/headcount planning, investment asks, reporting, and anything needed to ensure efficient delivery and execution against our hiring targets.
Executive Leadership Recruitment:
Successfully identifying and placing VP and Senior Director-level executives who shape GitLab's vision and drive organizational growth.
President's Club Cross-Functional MVP 2025

RecruitingTalent AcquisitionTeam ManagementCollaborationCapacity Planning

Head of Global Talent Acquisition (Interim)

Feb 2024 – Aug 2024 · 6 mos

Maternity leave coverage responsible for leading global talent acquisition (R&D, GTM, G&A, Executive, and Emerging Talent)

Director, Global GTM, G&A, and Executive Recruiting

Promoted

Feb 2022 – May 2026 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Director, Global GTM Recruiting

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022 · 5 mos

Atlassian

3 roles

Senior Recruiting Manager, Global GTM + G&A

Promoted

Sep 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Managed a humble and amazing team of Recruiting Managers and ~40 Recruiters/Sourcers focused on hiring key talent for all of our non-Engineering business groups: GTM (Sales, Marketing, Customer Support Services), Data & Analytics, IT, People, Legal, and Finance. Interface with the global leaders of each business unit to ensure hiring is on target, problem-solve, and conduct workforce planning annually and quarterly against recruiting capacity.
Executive Leadership Recruitment:
Successfully identified and placed numerous VP and Senior Director-level executives who helped shape Atlassian's vision and drive organizational growth.

RecruitingTeam ManagementWorkforce PlanningTalent Acquisition

Recruiting Manager - Global GTM + G&A

Promoted

May 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Senior Recruiter - US GTM + G&A

May 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Red hat

Lead - Sales & Solution Architecture Recruiting

Apr 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Lead in North America where I covered all of the Red Hat tech stack along with running point on Telco, OpenStack, and nationwide Partner pre-sales roles. Our recruiting was focused around Middleware, Cloud, Telco, and Storage Solution Architect and management roles. Middleware can be all-encompassing in our JBOSS product set or more focused on technologies such as BRMS/BPM and Fuse while Cloud roles can cover our OpenStack, CloudForms, RHEV, Ansible, Satellite, and OpenShift solutions.
Supported Events:
Grace Hopper Women in Computing- Houston 2015 & 2016
All Things Open - Raleigh - 2015, 2016
OPNFV - San Francisco - 2015
Openstack Summit- Austin- 2016, Boston 2017
Red Hat Summit - San Francisco - 2016