Sr. Director, Talent Acquisition, North America

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

The Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, North America (NA) will lead the recruitment strategies across Visa’s North America business. Additionally, this team is responsible for managing the execution of global roles located in the North America region. This role is responsible for developing and executing the talent acquisition strategy for North America, ensuring the organization attracts and hires top talent to support business growth and build long-term organizational capability in the region. This strategy includes professional recruitment and strong partnership across executive and early careers hiring, as well as being responsible for regional employer brand and marketing initiatives. This role involves collaboration on regional cross functional HR initiatives, global projects and initiatives that impact North America, Global Talent Acquisition (TA), and Global Talent.  The individual will ensure the excellence of the overall end-to-end candidate experience, through partnership with our central TA operations teams.

Additionally, the leader will be responsible for serving as the key point of talent acquisition contact for critical business units.  In this capacity, the leader will work closely with the business unit stakeholders to understand the strategy and define the global talent acquisition efforts to ensure human capital solutions are in place to allow the business to meet its objectives.  The NA TA Leader will collaborate with the Global TA team and provide dotted-line leadership to regional recruiters responsible for talent acquisition delivery. This role ensures consistent execution of hiring strategies, alignment on talent profiles, and excellence in delivery across the region. He/she will also foster team cross collaboration, maintain awareness of top talent globally and drive internal mobility opportunities where appropriate.  

The responsibilities include:

• Professional Recruitment and Strong Partnerships: This involves collaboration across executive and early careers hiring, business leaders, as well as managing regional employer brand and marketing initiatives.

• Collaboration on Regional and Global Initiatives: The role requires working on regional cross-functional HR initiatives, global projects, and initiatives that impact North America Global Talent Acquisition, and Global Talent.

• Key Point of Contact for Business: The leader will serve as the main contact for the business, working closely with leaders to understand strategy, define global talent acquisition efforts, and ensure human capital solutions are in place to meet business objectives.  Importantly, this person will advise and inform global recruiters of the business strategies to ensure consistency across the globe.

• Execution of Strategies: Partnering across the global TA team to lead the execution of strategies, ensuring consistency, alignment of profiles, and executing internal mobility.

• Driving Transformation: Aligning with global and regional stakeholders to drive transformation in capability growth, structure, and channel strategy to deliver a best-in-class TA function.

• Consultative Approach: Building and executing TA outcomes aligned with the People Team and Business strategy, focusing on skills enablement, Inclusion & Diversity, Internal Mobility, and capability growth and development.

• Leveraging Advanced Technologies: Leading the team to adopting advanced tools to enable sourcing and search strategy efforts.

The right candidate will be a highly seasoned recruiting/HR professional capable of driving both strategy and execution of the TA function, aligning with the wide multitude of global and regional stakeholders to drive transformation (e.g. capability growth, structure, channel strategy) that will deliver a best in class TA function.

The successful candidate will be highly consultative with a proven track record of building and executing TA outcomes which are aligned to the People Team and Business strategy.  They will be capable of charting an approach that delivers value across Visa’s people team priorities including skills enablement, inclusion, internal mobility, talent capability growth and