Talent Advisor - Specialized Client Enterprises

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. 

Schwab’s Talent Acquisition team is at the heart of the firm’s talent strategy, helping attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent while supporting business growth and meaningful outcomes for clients.

As a Talent Advisor supporting Specialized Client Enterprises, you will serve as a consultative partner to hiring leaders for roles that directly serve clients and support the client journey. You will translate business priorities, workforce needs, and talent market insights into focused recruiting strategies. Through strong relationship management, consultative communication, and strategic thinking, you will clarify role outcomes, influence selection priorities, and keep searches moving toward measurable results. 

You will also apply skills-based hiring and talent evaluation practices to identify role-relevant capabilities, assess demonstrated evidence, and guide structured selection decisions. As priorities and market conditions change, you will adapt your approach, remove barriers, and help candidates and hiring partners navigate the hiring process with clarity, trust, and reliable follow-through. 

What you’ll do 

Shape talent strategy 

• Lead consultative intake discussions that define business outcomes, required skills, success measures, talent market considerations, and selection priorities. 
• Build recruiting strategies that connect immediate hiring needs with longer-term workforce priorities and measurable hiring outcomes. 
• Use strategic thinking to frame options, surface tradeoffs, and provide clear recommendations to hiring leaders.

Build relationships and deliver results 

• Develop trusted relationships across Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, hiring teams, and business partners through transparent communication and consistent follow-through. 
• Create and nurture talent pipelines using sourcing tools, referrals, outreach, market research, and cross-functional talent partnerships. 
• Maintain momentum across multiple searches by prioritizing work, monitoring progress, resolving barriers, and adjusting strategy based on market response and business needs.

Evaluate talent and influence decisions 

• Apply skills-based hiring practices to evaluate role-relevant capabilities, transferable experience, and demonstrated evidence of success. 
• Create structured interview plans and materials that align interview questions and evaluation methods to the skills required for the role. 
• Facilitate evidence-based debriefs, synthesize feedback, and influence stakeholders toward timely, well-informed selection decisions.

Navigate change and improve the experience 

• Adapt recruiting strategies as priorities, market conditions, and hiring requirements evolve. 
• Communicate complex or sensitive talent considerations clearly, tailoring the message to each audience and guiding productive discussion. 
• Identify practical improvements to recruiting practices, candidate experience, tools, and workflows while contributing to shared team success. 

What you have

We value demonstrated capability, transferable experience, and the ability to learn and grow. The following qualifications describe what is needed to perform the role successfully. 

Required Qualifications 

• 5-7 years of experience in Talent Acquisition or related roles involving candidate assessment, stakeholder consultation, talent pipelines, workforce planning, or hiring process management.
• Full-cycle recruiting experience in a corporate, retained search, or related talent acquisition environment, including experience with complex, specialized, or hard-to-fill roles 
• Relationship management skills demonstrated through trusted partnerships, clear expectations, reliable follow-through, and productive stakeholder engagement. 
• Results orientation demonstrated by managing competing priorities, maintaining search momentum, removing barriers, and delivering against commitments. 
• Consultative communication skills demonstrated by clarifying needs, listening for underlying concerns, framing options, and delivering clear recommendations. 
• Change agility demonstrated by adjusting plans and communication as business needs, market conditions, or hiring priorities evolve. 
• Influencing others demonstrated by using evidence, business context, and sound judgment to guide stakeholder alignment and selection decisions. 
• Strategic thinking demonstrated by connecting business priorities, workforce needs, and market insight to recruiting strategy. 
• Talent evaluation skills demonstrated by assessing role-relevant capabilities and transferable experience, supporting structured interviews, and synthesizing evidence for selection decisions. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience recruiting across multiple functions, business areas, or geographically distributed teams. 
• Experience with workforce planning, talent market analysis, sourcing strategy, internal mobility, or employment branding. 
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and common recruiting technologies.