Position Overview

We are seeking a strategic and results-driven Head of Talent Acquisition to lead our recruitment function and build a scalable talent acquisition strategy. This role will be responsible for driving both internal hiring and client-focused staffing requirements, strengthening recruitment operations, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality talent.

The ideal candidate will combine strong recruitment leadership with hands-on execution, stakeholder management, workforce planning, and experience managing high-volume and specialized hiring.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and execute the overall talent acquisition strategy aligned with business growth and client needs.
- Lead, mentor, and manage the recruitment team, including recruiters, sourcing specialists, and recruitment coordinators.
- Oversee end-to-end recruitment across technology, consulting, corporate, and leadership positions.
- Partner with business leaders and client stakeholders to understand workforce requirements and establish hiring priorities.
- Drive timely delivery of qualified candidates against internal and client requirements.
- Establish proactive talent pipelines for recurring and niche skill sets.
- Define recruitment processes, governance, service-level expectations, and quality standards.
- Monitor recruiter performance through metrics such as time-to-fill, submission-to-interview ratio, offer acceptance rate, fulfilment rate, and candidate quality.
- Improve sourcing strategies across LinkedIn, job portals, referrals, social media, internal databases, and professional networks.
- Strengthen candidate screening, engagement, follow-up, and offer-management practices.
- Manage recruitment capacity, workload distribution, and hiring forecasts.
- Collaborate with sales, account management, delivery, HR, and operations teams.
- Evaluate and implement recruitment technologies, automation, AI tools, and ATS improvements.
- Build and promote a strong employer brand and positive candidate experience.




- Ensure compliance with applicable employment laws, client requirements, and internal hiring policies.
- Provide regular recruitment dashboards and progress updates to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of talent acquisition or staffing experience, including at least 4 years in a recruitment leadership role.
- Proven experience managing recruiters and driving recruitment performance.
- Strong understanding of technology and professional-services hiring.
- Experience supporting both internal recruitment and client staffing requirements.
- Demonstrated success in building talent pipelines and filling niche, high-volume, and leadership roles.
- Solid stakeholder, client, negotiation, and team-management skills.
- Experience working with applicant tracking systems, recruitment analytics, sourcing platforms, and job portals.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with IT staffing, consulting, or workforce-solutions organizations.
- Exposure to recruitment across India, Canada, and the United States.
- Experience supporting contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent recruitment.
- Familiarity with VMS/MSP-based client requirements.
- Experience introducing AI, automation, or data-driven practices into recruitment operations.

Key Performance Indicators

- Requirement fulfilment rate
- Time to submit and time to fill
- Candidate submission quality
- Submission-to-interview and interview-to-offer ratios
- Offer acceptance and joining rates
- Recruiter productivity
- Client and hiring-manager satisfaction
- Talent-pipeline readiness
- Candidate retention and quality of hire

Ideal Candidate You are a hands-on recruitment leader who can define strategy while remaining closely involved in execution. You know how to build accountable teams, create predictable hiring outcomes, develop long-term talent pipelines, and balance speed with candidate quality and experience.

📌 Head of Recruitment (Chennai)
🏢 TechDoQuest
📍 Chennai