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The Director of Early Career Recruiting will lead the team of Recruiters that serve as trusted business advisors and execute on Visa’s ambitions early career hiring goals.  Reporting to the Global Head of University Recruiting & Early Careers Programs, this leader will be responsible for establishing best-in-class talent acquisition processes, driving innovative delivery of the uniquely Visa candidate experience, promoting an integrated inclusion and diversity strategy, and executing our early career recruiting activity with consistency and precision.

The Director of North America Early Careers Recruiting will:

• Apply fresh ideas and innovative solutions to develop, implement, and lead strategic, impactful, and scalable early careers talent acquisition processes in partnership with the business and in alignment with our workforce goals and objectives.
• Stand out as an inspirational leader who manages a team of Tech and Non-Tech Early Careers Recruiters.  Excel at enabling the team to shine as trusted business advisors, thrive in a change environment, exemplify high performance teaming, and execute with rigor. 
• Utilize internal and external data to drive drastically effective strategic solutions, advance the candidate experience, and implement agile process improvements. 
• Partner with the I&D team, global recruiting teams, HR partners and business partners to activate the early career talent engagement and acquisition strategy.  Work collaboratively to drive shared outcomes that strengthen our brand in the market, and enriches the pipeline of diverse early career talent into the organization.
• Effectively implement and deploy technology solutions to drive efficiency and consistency in internal processes and maximize an exemplary candidate experience
• Participate in annual budgeting, planning, and operating processes

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Relationship & Stakeholder Management: Primary point of contact and trusted business advisor for Executive level Tech and Non-Tech clients. Active member of the North America Early Careers Leadership team and collaboration with the Global Early Careers Leadership team. Serves as the point of escalation for significant, complex or sensitive issues related to recruiting activity.
• Strategy: Define and lead pipeline management and recruiting process improvement strategy for internship and early career recruiting in alignment with Global TA strategic priorities
• Operation Excellence: Assess recruiting processes and implement improvements to ensure optimal operational performance.  Establish and apply related early career recruiting performance metrics that reinforce execution of best-in-class recruiting experience.   Ensure established capacity levels for team are maintained.
• Governance: Champion continuous improvement in early careers recruiting processes as well as consistent adherence to all compliance and acquisition processes. Manage budget with utmost fiscal responsibility.
• Leadership & Talent: Guide and support the team to collaborate in a trusted environment to reach bold and clear objectives.  Conduct performance and talent reviews and set the strategy for recruiting, onboarding, training of new team members. 
• Execution: Ensure that recruiting activities are executed with maximum efficiency and effectiveness,  provide consistent reporting insight into the function, monitor and diagnose pipeline health, and implement agile adjustments throughout recruiting life cycle.
• Project Management: Lead & prioritize portfolio of early career recruiting and Global TA initiatives identifying and aligning the right resources and talent behind critical projects.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.