# Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Purchase, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $98,000 - $152,000 USD
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to join its Global Talent Acquisition team. The successful candidate will play a critical part in supporting the growth of the Services organization across North America.

The Senior Specialist will act as a strategic talent advisor, partnering with business leaders and hiring managers to understand business priorities, translate workforce needs into effective talent strategies, and attract high-impact product talent.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from intake and sourcing through assessment, selection, offer and close, delivering a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience.

- Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders as a trusted talent advisor, translating business priorities into clear talent strategies, success profiles, required skills and hiring milestones.

- Develop targeted sourcing strategies and build diverse talent pipelines for critical, recurring and future capability needs, leveraging internal and external talent pools.

- Provide talent-market intelligence and recruiting insights to influence sourcing strategies, talent decisions and hiring outcomes.

- Apply skills-based hiring practices, translating role requirements into clearly defined skills and capabilities and enabling structured, evidence-based candidate assessment.

- Lead effective intake, interview planning, calibration and debrief conversations, ensuring clear accountability, timely feedback and informed hiring decisions.

- Establish and manage recruiting milestones, proactively identifying pipeline risks, bottlenecks and barriers and recommending solutions to maintain hiring momentum.

- Promote inclusive and consistent hiring practices, helping reduce bias and ensuring candidates are assessed against relevant skills and role requirements.

- Build strong relationships across local, regional and global teams, sharing talent, insights and best practices to support broader business priorities.

- Use recruiting data and insights to monitor pipeline health, identify trends and provide clear, meaningful hiring updates to stakeholders.

- Maintain accurate and timely recruitment information in Workday, supporting strong governance, reporting and data integrity.

- Leverage AI, automation and emerging recruiting technologies to improve sourcing, productivity and talent insights while continuously identifying opportunities to simplify and improve the recruitment process.

Requirements:

- Significant full-cycle talent acquisition experience, with demonstrated expertise recruiting Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Design and other product-focused talent.

- Proven ability to operate as a strategic talent advisor, translating business priorities and workforce needs into effective talent strategies.

- Strong direct sourcing capabilities with experience building proactive, diverse talent pipelines and engaging high-quality passive talent.

- Strong understanding of skills-based hiring, structured interviewing and evidence-based candidate assessment.

- Demonstrated ability to use talent-market intelligence, recruiting data and insights to influence hiring strategies and decisions.

- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to advise and constructively challenge hiring managers and senior leaders.

- Strong business acumen with the ability to understand complex organizational needs, operate effectively in ambiguity and adapt to changing priorities.

- Results-driven with a strong sense of urgency, excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple searches and milestones in a fast-paced environment.

- Digitally curious and comfortable leveraging AI, automation and emerging recruiting technologies to improve effectiveness, productivity and talent insights.

- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with a high degree of professionalism, integrity, confidentiality and commitment to an inclusive candidate experience.

## Skills

### Required
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruitment
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Product Design
- Skills-based hiring
- Structured interviewing
- Evidence-based candidate assessment
- Talent-market intelligence
- Recruiting data analysis
- AI
- Automation
- Emerging recruiting technologies

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