Note: This role is hired for Riko AI

About Riko AI

Riko AI is a funded fintech AI startup building financial intelligence and automation tools for Indian MSMEs, accountants and finance teams.

We are looking for a hands-on Talent Acquisition Specialist to help us build a high-quality team across technology, product, sales and customer-facing functions.

Role Overview

Your primary responsibility will be to manage end-to-end talent acquisition and maintain a continuous pipeline of strong candidates.

You will also support employee onboarding, engagement, retention and basic people operations as the company grows.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage end-to-end recruitment across technology, product, sales and operations roles.
- Source candidates through referrals, LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed and direct outreach.
- Proactively identify and engage passive candidates.
- Conduct initial screening interviews and assess skills, communication, motivation, compensation and startup fit.
- Coordinate interviews, assessments, offers, negotiations and joining follow-ups.
- Build and maintain active candidate pipelines for critical roles.
- Work closely with the CEO, CTO and hiring managers to define role requirements and interview scorecards.
- Support onboarding, employee check-ins, stay interviews and retention initiatives.
- Conduct structured exit interviews and identify recurring employee concerns.
- Maintain recruitment trackers and provide regular hiring updates.

Required Experience




- Must-have 2–5 years of hands-on talent acquisition experience.
- Prior experience hiring technology, product and sales roles .
- Must-have Experience working in a technology, SaaS, fintech, AI or product company.
- Solid direct sourcing and passive-candidate outreach skills.
- Experience managing candidates from sourcing through offer acceptance and joining.
- Strong communication, follow-up and negotiation skills.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Based in Mumbai/MMR and comfortable working from the office.

Preferred Experience
- Experience recruiting software engineers, AI engineers, product managers and B2B sales professionals.
- Familiarity with Mumbai’s technology and startup talent market.
- Experience supporting onboarding, employee engagement or retention programmes.

What Success Looks Like
- Consistently providing relevant, interview-ready candidates.
- Reducing founder and hiring-manager time spent on unsuitable profiles.
- Closing priority roles within agreed timelines.
- Maintaining strong backup pipelines for critical positions.
- Improving offer acceptance, joining conversion and employee retention.

Why Join Riko AI
- Work directly with the founders and senior leadership.
- Build the talent and people function from an early stage.
- Recruit across AI, fintech, product, engineering and B2B SaaS sales.
- Take meaningful ownership of hiring and team development.

📌 Talent Acquisition Specialist (Mumbai)
🏢 Tekhné
📍 Mumbai