Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition

Summary:
We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with deep expertise in product recruitment to join our Global Talent Acquisition team, reporting directly to the Director, Global Talent Acquisition.
In this role, you will play a critical part in supporting the growth of our Services organization across North America. You 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.

Mastercard’s Talent Acquisition team is focused on building a future-ready workforce through skills-based, strategy-led hiring and transparent people practices. Our approach focuses on candidate capabilities and transferable skills, aligns hiring with business and future capability needs, and supports consistent, evidence-based talent decisions.

This is an individual contributor role responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from intake and talent strategy through sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and close, while delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights and execution.

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.

All About You
• 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.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations. THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 01/12/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York: $98,000 - $152,000 USD