Talent Advisor

About the job

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 sits at the heart of our firm’s talent strategy to recruit world-class talent focused on driving growth and delivering superior results for clients.

As a Talent Advisor, you'll help Schwab attract and hire exceptional talent across the firm. You’ll deliver strategic recruiting solutions for high-impact roles while shaping hiring strategies that advance business priorities. You’ll create an engaging candidate experience that inspires top talent to envision a future at Schwab.

Serving as a trusted partner, you'll help business leaders define talent needs, develop data-informed recruiting strategies, and navigate competitive talent markets. You'll build diverse talent pipelines, apply skills-based hiring practices, and ensure evidence-based hiring decisions. Through your consultative approach, you'll help remove barriers, accelerate hiring outcomes, and deliver positive, lasting experiences for candidates and stakeholders.

Success in this role requires close collaboration and the ability to evolve recruiting strategies as business needs and market conditions change. In return, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact and help shape the future of talent at Schwab.

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+ 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 complex, specialized, or hard-to-fill roles

• Experience consulting with hiring teams to uncover business needs, clarify role outcomes, frame options, and provide evidence-based recommendations to hiring leaders.

• Strengths in building trusted partnerships, setting expectations, and providing consistent follow-through.

• Strategic thinking skills used to connect business priorities, workforce needs, and market insights with recruiting strategies.

• Experience driving results by managing competing priorities, maintaining search momentum, removing barriers, and delivering against commitments.

• Proven success navigating change and adjusting recruiting plans and communication as business needs, market conditions, or hiring priorities evolve.

• Successful history of evaluating talent, 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.

• Background in workforce planning, talent market analysis, sourcing strategy, internal mobility, or employment branding.

• Exposure to 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.