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

Manager, Executive Talent Acquisition

Manager, Executive Talent Acquisition

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview:

Mastercard’s Executive Talent Acquisition function plays a critical role in shaping the company’s future by identifying, engaging, and attracting top senior level talent across global markets. The team partners closely with business leaders, HR executives, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure Mastercard continues to lead the industry through exceptional executive hiring and worldclass talent pipeline strategies.

Job Responsibilities:

Partner with Hiring Managers and HR stakeholders to design and implement targeted sourcing and attraction strategies for senior executive roles in the external market.

Lead initial executive talent assessments, conducting thoughtful screening and engagement of passive candidates to determine alignment with business needs.

Develop and maintain robust executive pipelines within the CRM, ensuring strong pools of deployable talent for both current and future opportunities.

Ensure adherence to core TA processes and systems, championing operational discipline, data quality, and process integrity across all stages of the executive hiring lifecycle.

Monitor and report on sourcing effectiveness using key performance indicators—such as direct sourcing success, time-to-fill, cost per hire, diversity outcomes, pipeline strength, and ATS/CRM data accuracy—to drive continuous improvement in executive sourcing strategies.

All About You:

Proven experience designing and executing sophisticated executive level sourcing strategies.

Demonstrated success attracting senior level professionals through diverse, multichannel sourcing approaches.

Deep familiarity with applicant tracking systems and CRM platforms; advanced experience is a plus.

High ethical standards, strong integrity, and a genuine passion for identifying and championing top talent.

Operates with urgency and a service-oriented mindset, delivering an exceptional experience to stakeholders and candidates

Strong networking capability with a track record of building lasting, high value professional relationships

Self-driven, resilient, and able to operate as an independent contributor while navigating a complex, global matrixed environment

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.