Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, CEMEA

The Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, CEMEA will lead talent acquisition strategy and execution across Visa's Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa business, enabling growth by building organisational capability through exceptional talent.

This leader will drive regional recruitment strategy across professional hiring, partner with executive hiring early careers, employer brand, and talent marketing, while aligning closely with cross-functional HR, Global Talent Acquisition, Global Talent, and central TA operations teams to deliver a consistent, high-quality end-to-end candidate experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver top talent aligned to Visa's People Team priorities, including internal mobility and Inclusion, while ensuring a remarkable candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Lead, coach, grow, and develop the TA team, ensuring they are set up for success and enabled to deliver optimal outcomes for their respective businesses.
• Serve as point of contact for all hiring across the region, bringing in subject matter experts where needed and providing data to senior leaders.
• Foster a culture of partnership, support, transparency, and shared ownership, enabling best-practice sharing, problem-solving, and consistent execution across the TA team.
• Drive hiring manager enablement by clarifying accountabilities, strengthening assessment discipline, and equipping managers to represent Visa effectively while making sound, inclusive hiring decisions.
• Lead and own execution of Visa's employment brand in alignment with market and business unit needs, ensuring Visa's employer value proposition is clearly, accurately, and powerfully represented.
• Develop talent attraction plans that ensure critical skills are available to support Visa's objectives across each business.
• Partner with HRBPs to align on internal talent, role requirements, assessment expectations, and mobility opportunities, serving as a strong advocate for internal talent.
• Partner with Global Talent and Global Talent Acquisition teams to continuously evolve Visa's assessment and evaluation processes.
• Partner with global compensation and benefits teams to ensure the offer process is managed effectively, competitively, and in compliance with applicable requirements.
• Play a global leadership role in Talent initiatives and projects that drive best-in-class TA outcomes.
• Continue the adoption of AI-enabled talent acquisition tools and workflows to improve recruiter productivity, strengthen assessment consistency, enhance data-driven decision-making, and improve overall quality of hire.
• Ensure compliance with audit, regulatory, and legal requirements across the TA function.
• Administer and resolve employee matters effectively, mitigating risk to the company.

Requirements:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD
• 15+ years of recruiting experience, including experience leading CEMEA regional recruitment teams in similar multinational corporate environments.
• A combination of corporate recruiting and search or agency experience is attractive.
• Relevant industry experience is highly desired, particularly in fintech, digital, technology, and/or financial services.
• Advanced ability to develop recruiting strategies for sourcing, evaluating, and selecting talent underpinned by advanced technologies.
• Strong understanding of strategic HR, including talent management, talent assessment, and organisational development, is highly desired.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent negotiation, presentation, and organisational skills