About the role
We're hiring a Lead Recruiter to own senior and business-critical hiring at SkilloVilla. This is a hands-on role with team responsibility. You'll close niche technical and leadership mandates yourself while guiding a small team of recruiters and partnering directly with founders and function heads on how we hire.
What you'll own
• Drive end-to-end hiring for senior IC, technical, and leadership roles — from intake and market mapping to offer negotiation and closure
• Lead and mentor a team of recruiters: goal setting, pipeline reviews, quality of shortlists, and capability building
• Partner with hiring managers as an advisor, not a coordinator — challenge role definitions, set realistic hiring plans, and manage expectations on timelines and compensation
• Build proactive talent pipelines through direct sourcing, referrals, industry mapping, and community networks
• Own hiring metrics: time-to-fill, offer-to-join ratio, quality of hire, source effectiveness — and use the data to fix what's leaking
• Improve interview processes, structured evaluation, scorecards,



and candidate experience across the funnel
• Manage employer branding inputs and drive closures in competitive offer situations

What we're looking for
• 5–6 years in talent acquisition, with a strong track record in technical and leadership hiring
• Proven team handling experience — you've managed, reviewed, and coached recruiters
• Demonstrable closures of senior and hard-to-fill roles
• Solid direct sourcing skills across LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, and networks
• Confident stakeholder management with senior leadership; comfortable pushing back with data
• Sharp assessment ability — you can judge depth beyond the résumé
• Experience with ATS platforms and hiring dashboards

Good to have
• Exposure to hiring in [product / startup / EdTech / SaaS]
• Experience setting up hiring processes from scratch or scaling a team quickly
• Comfort with compensation benchmarking and of

📌 Lead Recruiter (Bengaluru)
🏢 SkilloVilla
📍 Bengaluru