Role & responsibilities

- End-to-end search. Intake with the founder or hiring manager, market mapping, sourcing, screening, pipeline management, offer negotiation, close. No handoffs to hide behind.
- The client relationship. Once a founder signs, you're the person they call. You run the kickoff, set expectations on timeline and market reality, deliver weekly updates, handle escalations, and decide when a search needs re-scoping or pausing. Repeat business and referrals come out of accounts kept healthy, not out of current logos. [Handoff point: the founder leads business development through contract signature; the account is yours from kickoff onward confirm and state plainly.]
- How the firm runs. You define the search process, intake templates and scorecards, SLAs, and what "good" looks like at each stage.
- Tooling. Current stack is LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, Naukri Resdex, Juicebox/PeopleGPT, Apollo.io, and Zoho Recruit. You decide what stays, what gets replaced, and how the ATS is actually configured.
- Candidate experience. Response times,



feedback loops, how candidates are treated when they don't get the role. Repeat business at this end of the market is won or lost here.
- Delivery quality as we grow. You'll help hire and ramp the sourcer who follows you.

Preferred candidate profile

- 6+ years in agency, embedded, or in-house recruiting, with meaningful time in tech or AI hiring
- Demonstrable closes on hard technical roles you can walk through a specific search: the map, the outreach, why the candidate said yes
- Can hold a difficult conversation with a paying client: the role isn't hireable at that band, the interview loop is losing candidates, the offer is two weeks too slow
- Comfortable with founders and engineering leaders as a peer
- Builds systems rather than working from memory
- Wants ownership over stability, and is clear-eyed about what joining an early-stage firm means

📌 Founding Recruiter (Bengaluru)
🏢 Taghire
📍 Bengaluru