Vice President, Talent Acquisition

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Job Summary

The Vice President of Talent Acquisition is responsible for designing, developing, and executing an end‑to‑end enterprise talent acquisition strategy that enables business performance, workforce readiness, and long‑term growth. This role translates business strategy, workforce segmentation, and position assessment into differentiated hiring strategies across multiple client groups and role types, ensuring the organization attracts, assesses, and hires talent with the skills and capabilities most critical to success. As a senior talent leader, this role serves as a strategic partner to business and HR leadership, driving proactive sourcing, scalable recruitment processes, a high‑quality candidate experience, and a highly collaborative talent acquisition operating model. This role requires proven experience defining and operationalizing the intersections and handoffs between talent acquisition, talent management, and learning to form an elegant and high performing talent and hiring ecosystem.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Sets and executes the enterprise Talent Acquisition strategy, aligning hiring priorities to business strategies, workforce segmentation, and role criticality to ensure the organization secures talent essential to current execution and future growth.

• Leads end‑to‑end talent acquisition across enterprise client groups, designing and delivering differentiated hiring strategies, inclusive of in-house talent management practices, tailored to regional, technical, operational, corporate, and early‑career workforce needs.

• Aligns recruiting models, processes, and resource deployment to workforce categorization for roles across high‑volume, professional, and emerging talent populations.

• Acts as a strategic advisor, in partnership with Talent Management, to business and HR leaders, partnering to clarify role criticality, anticipate short‑ and long‑term talent demand, and align hiring decisions with broader workforce, operating, and investment priorities.

• Establishes proactive, skills‑based sourcing strategies, building and sustaining strong external and internal pipelines for priority roles and capabilities, and reducing reliance on reactive hiring approaches.

• Anchors talent acquisition practices to enterprise skills intelligence, ensuring sourcing, assessment, and selection methods emphasize the skills, capabilities, and learning agility most critical to organizational success.

• Owns hiring speed, quality, and risk outcomes, using data and insights to balance time‑to‑fill, quality of hire, and business continuity, particularly for enterprise‑critical and hard‑to‑fill roles.

• Leads the adoption of AI‑enabled and technology‑driven recruiting capabilities, leveraging automation, advanced analytics, and emerging tools to improve hiring speed, scalability, decision quality, and recruiter effectiveness.

• Continuously simplifies and optimizes recruiting processes, eliminating low‑value steps, reducing friction for candidates and hiring leaders, and ensuring recruiting operating rhythms match the pace and urgency of the business.

• Owns and elevates the enterprise candidate experience and employment brand, ensuring a consistent, inclusive, and high‑quality experience that reflects the organization’s values, culture, and future direction—regardless of hiring outcome.

• Partners with the Talent Branding team to amplify Comcast’s employment brand in the marketplace to draw more qualified, passive candidates.

• Champions a highly collaborative ‘one‑team’ Talent Acquisition model, enabling recruiters aligned to specific client groups to share insights, talent pools, and high‑quality candidates across business lines to fill critical roles efficiently.

• Uses data, analytics, and recruiting metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement, monitoring effectiveness, ensuring compliance, optimizing resource allocation, and improving quality of hire, speed to fill, and pipeline health.

• Leads, inspires, and develops multiple high‑performing teams, fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion, accountability, and performance while operating effectively at enterprise scale.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.

• 15+ years of progressive experience in talent acquisition, workforce strategy, or related talent leadership roles within large, complex organizations.

• Demonstrated experience designing and leading enterprise‑scale talent acquisition strategies aligned to business priorities and workforce planning.

• Strong expertise in workforce segmentation, role criticality, and differentiated hiring models across high‑volume, professional, and early‑career populations.

• Proven success building proactive sourcing engines and sustainable talent pipelines for critical skills and roles.

• Experience integrating skills intelligence or workforce data into recruiting strategy, assessment, and decision‑making.

• Track record of leading large, distributed recruiting teams and fostering high collaboration and shared accountability.

• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders and navigate complex, matrixed environments.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

• Drive results and growth.

• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.

• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Recruiting, Strategic Objectives, Talent Acquisition

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

15 Years +

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