Indeed Appoints Jim Giles as Chief Technology Officer
“Jim is a proven engineering leader with deep experience scaling technology used around the world"
Indeed, the world’s number one job site, has appointed Jim Giles as Chief Technology Officer, effective February 16, 2026. Giles will be tasked with leading the technical strategy and evolution of Indeed’s global engineering teams, overseeing how the platform transforms the way people find jobs and how employers hire with speed, confidence, and trust.
“Jim is a proven engineering leader with deep experience scaling technology used around the world,”said Indeed CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba. “As hiring enters a new era, his forward-thinking approach to applying AI will help drive a step-change in our platform, ensuring our technology is built to simplify hiring and fuel Indeed’s long-term growth.”
Giles joins Indeed from Google, where he served as Vice President of Engineering and led the engineering teams behind some of the world’s most widely used productivity tools including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, products collectively used by more than a billion people globally.
The scale of that responsibility is not incidental to why Indeed hired him. Running engineering for products at that level of global adoption requires an ability to balance technical depth with organisational complexity, and to ship AI features that work reliably for enormously diverse user bases.
During his tenure at Google, Giles also helped lead the company’s transition to an AI-first product strategy and founded the Workspace AI platform, the infrastructure layer designed to power AI development across Google’s productivity suite and enable cross-product journeys.
Earlier in his career, Giles held senior engineering roles at Google and was a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, a title reserved for a small number of engineers recognised for exceptional technical contribution and industry impact. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Giles was direct about what drew him to the role. “I’ve long focused on how technology can improve the way work gets done,” he said. “Hiring sits at the heart of that challenge and holds tremendous potential for transformative innovation. Indeed’s mission deeply resonates with me, and I’m excited to help build technology that simplifies hiring and more effectively connects people with meaningful opportunities.”
Indeed has described his philosophy as applying AI “intentionally to scale impact without losing sight of the people it serves,” a calibrated position for a platform whose core purpose is helping people find work.
At a time when AI’s impact on employment is one of the most charged conversations in the industry, the emphasis on human outcomes rather than pure automation is both a product philosophy and a positioning statement.
Bringing in someone who built the AI infrastructure for a billion-person productivity suite, and who founded the platform that powers AI across Google Workspace, suggests Indeed is not looking to add AI features at the margins. It is looking to rebuild around them.