About the Role

Our client, a leading global financial institution, is looking for two Vice President-level Campus Recruiters to own and evolve its early-careers hiring in India. One role will lead technology and engineering campus hiring; the other will lead non-technology (business, finance, operations and risk) campus hiring.

The firm expects every new hire to raise the benchmark, not simply add capacity. Campus hiring is therefore about fewer, sharper, more deliberate decisions: defining the right campuses, attracting the strongest talent from premier institutes, and running an assessment process that tests real depth rather than polished CVs. The role sits at the intersection of talent strategy, technical understanding and stakeholder influence, with AI embedded in how the work gets done.

Key Responsibilities

- Own the end-to-end campus hiring strategy and calendar for your track (technology or non-technology), from campus selection through offer and onboarding.
- Define and continuously refine the campus portfolio, using data and AI-enabled tools to decide which institutes, programmes and talent pools deliver the best quality and conversion.
- Build and sustain relationships with placement cells, faculty, alumni and student communities at premier engineering and management institutes (IITs, IIMs and comparable institutions).
- Lead employer branding and campus marketing, using AI tools and well-crafted prompts to create targeted, high-quality outreach, content and engagement campaigns.
- Partner with hiring managers and senior business and engineering leaders to understand role requirements in depth, challenge assumptions,



and negotiate priorities.
- Design and run rigorous selection processes, including case, technical and AI-capability assessments, in collaboration with business interviewers.
- Assess candidates on practical ability, problem-solving, project ownership and potential, and on their willingness to adopt and apply AI in real work.
- Manage internship-to-full-time conversion, offer strategy, candidate engagement and drop-off reduction.
- Use the ATS and recruitment analytics to track funnel health, diversity, cost and quality of hire, and report insights to leadership.
- Coach and guide junior recruiters and coordinators, and work closely with HR, diversity and external partners.
- Pilot and scale recent ways of working, including AI-led screening support, workshops, prompting exercises and hackathon-style engagement events.

Requirements

- 7–12 years of recruitment experience, with significant ownership of campus or early-careers hiring in India.
- Proven track record of hiring from IITs, IIMs and other top-tier institutes. Experience in financial services or global technology and banking environments is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on familiarity with AI tools in recruitment (sourcing, screening, content, analytics) and the ability to speak concretely about practical use cases, limitations and failures.
- Experience working with an enterprise ATS and recruitment technology stack.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, and a hands-on, ownership-driven working style.

If this sounds like you, please click apply or drop a note on [email protected] for a confidential chat.

📌 VP Campus Recruiter (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aquis Search
📍 Bengaluru