About Masters’ Union

Founded in 2020, Masters’ Union is a new-age, industry-led university focused on business, technology, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Built around learning by doing, the institution combines academics with real-world projects, startup building, and global exposure, with the ambition of becoming one of the world’s top business schools and multidisciplinary universities over the next two decades.

Today, Masters’ Union has nearly 3,500 students across undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive programs, with almost half being experienced professionals. Spread across nearly 5 lakh square feet in Gurgaon and Manesar, the institution houses the PwC Center for Generative AI, a Bloomberg Lab, Gurgaon’s premier maker space, AI and robotics infrastructure, advanced bioengineering workshops, and startup incubation spaces, while also expanding into areas such as bioengineering and genetic engineering.

The institution is chaired by Manoj Kohli, former CEO of Bharti Airtel and former Country Head of SoftBank India. Its leadership ecosystem includes Vivek Gambhir, Pankaj Bansal, Sanjiv Bikhchandani, Amitabh Kant, and 30+ other founders, CEOs, investors, and policymakers who contribute to teaching and institution building.

Masters’ Union’s flagship postgraduate program has recorded the highest average salary among MBA-equivalent programs in India, with graduates placed at firms such as Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Google, and Microsoft. The institution has also built one of the country’s strongest student startup ecosystems, with 10+ students pitching on Shark Tank India and 20+ students raising external funding for their ventures, alongside several successful creators and internet entrepreneurs.

About the Role The Manager – Talent Acquisition will be responsible for driving end-to-end recruitment across a fast-paced, high-growth environment. The role requires robust experience in startup hiring, with the ability to independently manage multiple mandates across Marketing, Growth,



Program Management, Operations and Business roles.

The ideal candidate should be a hands-on recruiter who can manage high-scale as well as niche hiring, partner closely with Hiring Managers, and drive positions from requirement understanding through offer and joining.

Key Responsibilities

- End-to-End Recruitment

- Own end-to-end hiring across Marketing, Growth, Program Management, Operations and Business roles.
- Manage multiple positions simultaneously across high-volume, mid-senior and niche hiring.
- Build relevant candidate pipelines through LinkedIn, job portals, referrals, direct sourcing and market mapping.
- Drive positions from sourcing and screening through interviews, offers and joining.
- Ensure hiring delivery within defined TAT, quality and cost benchmarks.

- Startup & High-Scale Hiring

- Manage rapidly changing hiring priorities in a startup/high-growth environment.
- Build pipelines quickly for new teams, programs and business requirements.
- Proactively change sourcing strategies when sufficient relevant talent is not available.
- Conduct market mapping and targeted headhunting for niche and critical roles.
- Maintain a healthy pipeline across multiple open positions instead of depending on a single sourcing channel or mandate.

- Stakeholder Management

- Partner closely with Hiring Managers to understand role requirements, candidate profiles and hiring priorities.
- Advise stakeholders on talent availability, compensation benchmarks and sourcing strategy.
- Conduct regular hiring reviews and provide visibility on pipeline, ageing, bottlenecks and closures.
- Drive timely CV feedback, interviews,



selection decisions and offer approvals.

- Recruitment Delivery & Analytics

- Track recruitment funnels and conversion metrics across assigned positions.
- Monitor TAT, source effectiveness, offer-to-join ratio, ageing and hiring productivity.
- Identify positions with low movement and proactively implement corrective sourcing strategies.
- Maintain accurate recruitment data and ensure complete ATS/process adherence.

- Team & Process Management

- Guide and support recruiters where applicable and ensure consistent hiring delivery.
- Drive sourcing discipline, candidate quality and stakeholder responsiveness.
- Ensure recruitment processes and defined SLAs are followed.
- Support continuous improvement of recruitment processes, candidate experience and employer branding.

Key Skills & Competencies

- Strong startup/high-growth hiring experience.
- Proven experience hiring for Marketing, Growth and Program Management roles.
- Strong hands-on sourcing and headhunting capabilities.
- Ability to manage high-volume and niche hiring simultaneously.
- Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
- Data-driven approach to recruitment.
- Ability to work with aggressive timelines and changing priorities.
- Strong ownership and execution orientation.

Qualifications & Experience

- MBA/PGDM in HR or equivalent qualification preferred.
- 5–8 years of Talent Acquisition experience.
- Prior recruitment experience within a startup or rapidly scaling organization preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple positions and functions simultaneously.
- Experience hiring Marketing, Growth, Program Management and business roles is strongly preferred.

Ideal Candidate A hands-on TA professional who enjoys working in a high-growth environment, can independently source and close difficult roles, manages multiple priorities effectively, and takes complete ownership of hiring delivery from requirement to joining.

📌 Talent Acquisition Manager (Gurugram)
🏢 Masters Union
📍 Gurugram