Senior Talent Acquisition Leader

Innominds is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Leader to build and lead a scalable, data-driven hiring function supporting executive, strategic, niche-skill, technical, client-led, and high-volume recruitment. The role will connect workforce demand to business growth, delivery commitments, client requirements, and long-term capability building.

At its current scale, the function supports 300+ open positions with a recruiting team of 25+ members. This leader will improve hiring predictability, strengthen leadership and technical talent pipelines, and ensure a high-quality candidate and stakeholder experience.

Key responsibilities

- Partner with the CPO, business leaders, Delivery, Sales, RMG and Operations to forecast demand, prioritize critical roles, and convert business plans into hiring action.
- Establish disciplined requisition intake and approval gates covering headcount, role clarity, project readiness, compensation, interview-panel availability, and decision timelines.
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for leadership, strategic, niche, and high-volume technical roles across relevant markets.
- Build sourcing capability through direct search, referrals, executive networks, talent communities, campuses, specialist partners, and selective agency use.
- Develop talent maps and pipelines for scarce and evolving skills, including Cloud and DevOps, Data Engineering, AI/ML, .NET, Java, QE, Android, embedded etc. and other priority capabilities.
- Strengthen executive search through confidential market mapping, structured assessment, stakeholder alignment,



compensation positioning, and candidate relationship management.
- Improve interview quality and speed through calibrated scorecards, trained panels, transparent decision rights, and faster feedback cycles.
- Own offer and joining conversion, pay-range discipline, offer governance, candidate communication, background verification, and onboarding readiness.
- Establish a clear operating cadence using ATS and dashboards for pipeline reviews, aging escalations, SLA tracking, source effectiveness, offer risk, and executive reporting.
- Lead, coach, and develop the recruiting team while building hiring-manager capability in job definition, structured interviewing, inclusive assessment, and timely decision-making.

Experience and qualifications

- 15+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including leadership responsibility in technology, digital engineering, product engineering, IT services, or a comparable environment.
- Proven success leading both executive or strategic hiring and high-volume technical recruitment.
- Experience building recruiting teams, operating models, governance, dashboards, and stakeholder-review mechanisms.
- Strong understanding of technical talent markets, compensation benchmarking, offer negotiation, funnel analytics, ATS governance, and recruiting metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to influence C-suite leaders, business heads, technical interviewers, clients, and external search or staffing partners.

Reports to: Chief People Officer
Location: Hyderabad

Time to join: 30 days

📌 Senior Talent Acquisition Leader (Hyderabad)
🏢 Innominds Software
📍 Hyderabad