HMX Media is a CGI product visualization and VFX studio. We make product launch imagery, film and real-time 3D for global consumer brands, out of Pune, Mumbai and London.

We are hiring for a dedicated talent acquisition specialist to own hiring for our Pune studio. Every artist, technical and production seat.

Why this one is different

Our open roles look nearly identical on a CV and are entirely different jobs. Two candidates can both write "Six years, Lighting Artist" and one has spent those years matching CG to a live-action plate on features while the other lights a product for a sequence of CG shots . Only the second can make brushed aluminum highlights look realistic for a macro shot.

So this is not a keyword matching role. We need someone who reads the reel before the CV, who can sit in a briefing with a Supervisor and leave knowing precisely what is being asked for, and who can then have a credible conversation about that work with the candidate.

You will be hiring across lighting, lookdev, CG compositing, modelling, animation and motion, Houdini FX, real-time 3D and WebGL, pipeline development, and production.

What you will own

- Direct sourcing. Reels and portfolios first: ArtStation, Behance, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Instagram and artist communities, alongside Naukri and a referral scheme you design.
- First-pass assessment of showreels against the brief, so Heads of Department only see candidates worth their time.
- Requisitions end to end: intake briefs, scheduling, feedback, offers and documentation.
- The offer to joining window. Counter-offer risk, buy-outs, weekly candidate contact, background verification and day-one readiness.
- Employer branding. Careers page, LinkedIn and Instagram presence, behind-the-scenes content agreed with Production, and studio presence at industry events.
- Campus and early talent. Relationships with the Pune animation and VFX institutes, reel reviews, workshops,



and the trainee intake.
- Data and benchmarks. Pipeline health, time to fill, source mix, offer acceptance, and live compensation benchmarks.

What we are looking for

- Three to six years recruiting, most of it inside an animation, VFX, gaming, CGI or design studio. Equivalent time inside studio production or studio HR with hands-on hiring responsibility counts equally.
- You can read a showreel. You do not need to light a scene. You do need to tell a solid lighting reel from a weak one, identify which parts of a group reel the candidate actually made, and hold your own with a Supervisor.
- You take a brief properly. You ask what the person will be doing in their first month, not just which software to search for.
- Direct sourcing as your default setting, rather than posting a role and waiting.
- Full ownership of a requisition list, run without being chased.
- Fluent written and spoken English. You are the first HMX voice a candidate hears, and the work here is delivered to global clients.
- Working knowledge of Indian hiring mechanics: notice periods, counter-offer behavior, background verification and offer structuring against CTC expectations.

This is not for you if your process starts with a Boolean string and ends with a forwarded CV. We will screen for that directly.

How we will assess you

Beyond the usual conversation, we will give you three real open briefs from the studio and ask you to define, for each, the profile you would go after, where you would find them, and the three questions you would ask to separate a genuine match from a keyword match. We are interested in your reasoning, not in whether you name the right tool.

Practicalities

Studio-based in Baner, Pune. Open to candidates relocating to Pune from anywhere in India.

Apply with your CV and a short note on one hire you are proud of, how you found that person, and what you spotted in their work that a CV would not have shown.

📌 Talent Acquisition Specialist (Pune)
🏢 HMX MEDIA
📍 Pune