About This Role
This role focuses on recruiting for technology positions within Mastercard's European Technology Talent Acquisition team. The specialist will manage end-to-end hiring for specific technology job families, becoming a talent expert in those areas. The position involves working with hiring managers across Europe to deliver strong hiring outcomes and a positive candidate experience.
Responsibilities
- Help hire engineers, product people, and technical specialists who build Mastercard's future
- Focus on a group of related technology job families and become the go-to talent expert for them
- Build deep knowledge of the skills, markets, and people involved
- Work with hiring managers across Europe and use a skills-based approach, modern tools, and data to deliver great hiring outcomes and a candidate experience
- Own end-to-end hiring for your job families, from intake to offer, across Dublin and wider European locations
- Lead skills-focused kick-off meetings with hiring managers to agree on role requirements, critical skills, level, and how candidates will be assessed
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for your job families that stay open all the time
- Source and engage talent directly through LinkedIn, networking, communities, referrals, events, and social media
- Write clear, inclusive job postings that describe roles in terms of skills
- Screen and assess candidates against defined skills, using structured interviews, scorecards, and technical assessment partners
- Share market insight with stakeholders on talent availability, compensation benchmarks, competitor activity, and emerging skills
- Track hiring data, including pipeline health, time-to-fill, and diversity, and use it to spot risks and keep hiring moving
- Keep candidates, hiring managers, and your leader informed with clear, timely updates
- Use AI-enabled recruiting tools and suggest new ways to make hiring smarter and simpler
- Take practical, deliberate steps to make the hiring process inclusive and fair
Requirements
- Experience recruiting for technology roles from start to finish, whether in-house, in an agency, or both
- Confident sourcing people directly and building talent pipelines for technical roles
- Good understanding of the Irish and European technology talent market
- Comfortable talking about technical skills with engineers and hiring managers; curiosity is key
- Organised and able to manage several open roles at once with pace, accuracy, and follow-through
- Comfortable using data to make decisions and share insights
- Open to using AI and new technology in your work
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