Job Description
TA Advisory Head — Forward-Deployed Consultant & Business Builder

Role : Head — Executive Search & RPO (working title; final title to be aligned with the incumbent)
Reports to : Founder & CEO, People Equation
Location : Pune/ Mumbai (with travel to client sites as engagements require)
Practice : Org. & Talent Advisory — anchored in Executive Search and RPO, extending into
organisation design and workforce advisory
Experience : 15 years, with significant depth in Executive Search and/or Global RPO on the
service-provider side

About People Equation
People Equation (PE) is a boutique advisory firm focused on capability transformation — helping companies translate strategy into results. PE runs Practices across Org. & Talent, AI, and GCC (Global Capability Centre) advisory, working primarily with mid-market and other growth-oriented companies, including technology-based and engineering-focused GCCs.

Why This Role Exists
This is not a standard TA leadership hire. PE is scaling its Executive Search and RPO business — commercially, operationally,



and in delivery capability — and needs a leader who has run this kind of business before: someone who knows how to win clients, price and structure mandates, build a delivery team, and be accountable for P&L-level; outcomes.
At the same time, PE does not see Talent Acquisition as a standalone delivery function. The person in this role is expected to operate as a forward-deployed advisory partner — having one deep subject-matter expertise, staying close enough to the client's business to see the organisational problem behind the hiring mandate, and capable enough to shape a broader solution around it.
Over time, that scope is expected to extend into organisation design, workforce planning, and other parts of the Org. & Talent Advisory practice.
In short: this role is built for someone who refuses to let recruitment be the boundary of their contribution.

Role Mandate
The role has three connected dimensions. They a

📌 Director Executive Search (India)
🏢 People Equation
📍 India