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Experience: 8+ yrs

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Bengaluru

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Talent Acquisition & HR Lead to lead talent acquisition while providing strategic guidance across key HR initiatives. This is a player-coach role, with approximately 80% focus on end-to-end talent acquisition and 20% on HR mentoring, process development, and people-related initiatives.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing a small team while remaining actively involved in recruiting. You will partner closely with founders, hiring managers, and HR stakeholders to build high-quality talent pipelines, improve hiring processes, strengthen candidate experience, and support organizational growth across India and the US.

Requirements

Key ResponsibilitiesTalent Acquisition & Hiring

- Own end-to-end talent acquisition across India and the US, from sourcing through offer closure.
- Build and execute effective sourcing strategies for multiple roles and functions.
- Partner with founders and hiring managers to understand hiring requirements and refine job descriptions.
- Conduct intake discussions and establish transparent hiring expectations, timelines, and evaluation criteria.
- Build strong candidate pipelines and ensure hiring managers have consistent access to qualified talent.
- Manage candidate screening, interviews, feedback, selection, and offer processes.
- Maintain a fast, transparent, and positive candidate experience throughout the hiring journey.

Team & Agency Management




- Lead and mentor a small Talent Acquisition/HR team and take ownership of team performance.
- Guide team members on recruiting strategy, stakeholder management, escalations, and decision-making.
- Manage external recruitment agencies and hold them accountable for candidate quality and turnaround time.
- Establish clear expectations, metrics, and performance standards for internal and external recruiting partners.

Recruitment Analytics & Process Improvement
- Monitor pipeline health, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, conversion rates, and hiring performance.
- Identify bottlenecks in the recruitment process and implement improvements.
- Use market intelligence, compensation benchmarks, candidate expectations, and attrition trends to improve hiring strategies.
- Build scalable recruitment processes and frameworks suitable for a rapidly growing organization.

HR Advisory & Mentoring
- Mentor the HR team on performance management, policy interpretation, process design, and people-related escalations.
- Provide guidance on developing effective HR frameworks without owning day-to-day HR execution.
- Connect talent acquisition insights with broader HR initiatives and organizational planning.




- Support smooth onboarding in collaboration with HR, Operations, and Administration teams.

What's Makes You a Great Fit
- 8+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, or related HR functions, with strong hands-on recruiting experience.
- Proven expertise in full-cycle recruitment, from sourcing and screening to offer closure.
- Experience managing and mentoring a team of 2+ TA/HR professionals.
- Strong experience developing sourcing strategies and building talent pipelines for multiple roles.
- Experience working closely with founders, senior leaders, and hiring managers.
- Prior exposure to HR/HRBP functions, including policies, performance frameworks, and people processes.
- Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment, particularly where processes need to be built from scratch.
- Experience hiring for B2B technology, AI, SaaS, or other rapidly scaling businesses is highly preferred.
- Exposure to scaling organizations from approximately 80 to 300+ employees will be an advantage.
- Experience managing recruitment for US-based roles from India is a strong plus.
- Strong stakeholder, candidate, and agency management skills.
- Excellent communication skills with a direct, clear, and practical approach.
- Strong understanding of recruiting metrics, candidate experience, and market intelligence.
- Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on recruiting execution.
- Highly proactive, adaptable, and comfortable operating with ambiguity and changing priorities.

📌 Talent Acquisition & HR Lead (Player-Coach) (Bengaluru)
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