Our Vision – To Enable Wow and Delightful Careers

Ethnus is a leading Emerging Technology training provider that has trained over 2.5 million students since 2007. We specialize in training, certification, employability enhancement, skill development, and placement support, helping students build careers in industry-relevant roles.

Ethnus has the honor of being the Cloud expert for Team India in the WorldSkills 2024 competition. We are an Authorized Training Partner of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Cloud Computing courses, EC-Council for Cybersecurity courses, and several other technology partners. Our work was recognized by the Hon. Minister of Education in Parliament in 2019 for delivering high-quality training and mentoring to students.

With over 800 higher education institutions trusting our services, Ethnus operates across multiple business verticals, including institutional training, corporate training, government-funded skill development programs, CSR and impact initiatives, technology certification, placement support, and emerging workforce solutions.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a high-energy, business-oriented and execution-focused Head of Talent Acquisition to lead and own the entire Talent Acquisition function across Ethnus Group companies. This is a strategic yet highly hands-on leadership role, responsible for building a robust, scalable and agile talent acquisition engine that can consistently deliver exceptional talent across business functions, technology staffing, software solutions and emerging business requirements.

The ideal candidate is a true Go-Getter who thrives on challenging hiring mandates, takes complete ownership of delivery, and can translate business priorities into measurable talent outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Group-wide Talent Acquisition Ownership

- Own end-to-end TA strategy, planning and delivery across all Ethnus Group companies.
- Drive workforce planning, talent forecasting and recruitment budgets aligned with business growth.
- Establish consistent recruitment governance, processes, SLAs and performance metrics.

2. Technology Staffing & Solutions Hiring

- Lead high-volume, niche and specialised technology hiring for client staffing and software solutions mandates.




- Deliver talent requirements across Full Stack, FDE, Embedded Software, Cybersecurity and other emerging technology domains.
- Take complete accountability for stringent client timelines, hiring SLAs, fulfilment rates and deployment readiness.

3. Talent Delivery & Operational Excellence

- Build and lead a high-performing recruitment team with clear individual and collective accountability.
- Develop strong sourcing capabilities through direct recruitment, referrals, talent communities, consultants and strategic partnerships.
- Drive recruitment funnel efficiency, time-to-hire, cost-of-hire, offer-to-joining ratios and quality-of-hire.
- Build talent pipelines ahead of demand rather than operating purely on reactive hiring.

4. Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management

- Partner closely with the CEO, Business Heads, Delivery Leaders and Client-facing teams.
- Understand business economics, project requirements, revenue commitments and talent margins.
- Provide hiring intelligence, market insights and talent availability assessments to support business decisions.

CRITICAL COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

- TA Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment, technology hiring, lateral hiring, niche talent acquisition and staffing models.
- Business Acumen: Ability to understand revenue, margins, client commitments, workforce utilisation and business priorities.
- Execution Excellence: Strong delivery orientation with the ability to manage multiple critical hiring mandates simultaneously.
- Talent Market Intelligence: Deep understanding of technology talent markets, compensation benchmarks, sourcing channels and competitor hiring practices.
- Process Orientation: Ability to establish scalable recruitment frameworks, dashboards, governance and measurable operating metrics.
- Negotiation & Closure: Exceptional candidate engagement,



stakeholder influence, offer negotiation and closure capabilities.
- Technology Savviness: Experience with ATS, recruitment analytics, sourcing tools and data-driven hiring methodologies.

LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES – NON-NEGOTIABLE

- Go-Getter Mindset: Relentless drive to achieve targets; believes in making things happen.
- High Energy & Ownership: Personally accountable for outcomes, not just activities.
- Speed & Agility: Comfortable working with stiff deadlines, changing priorities and demanding stakeholders.
- People Leadership: Ability to inspire, coach, develop and hold recruitment teams accountable.
- Solution Orientation: Finds ways to deliver rather than reasons why hiring cannot happen.
- Resilience & Grit: Remains composed and determined under pressure.
- Integrity & Professionalism: Builds trust with candidates, employees, clients and business leaders.
- Continuous Improvement: Constantly challenges conventional recruitment practices and drives innovation.

SUCCESS MEASURES

The incumbent will be measured on:
- 100% ownership of Group-wide hiring delivery against agreed plans.
- Fulfilment of critical technology staffing and software solutions mandates within committed timelines.
- Time-to-hire, quality-of-hire and offer-to-joining conversion.
- Recruitment cost optimisation and sourcing productivity.
- Client and internal stakeholder satisfaction.

Requirements

WHO SHOULD APPLY? A proven Talent Acquisition leader from IT Services, Technology Staffing, Software Services, Product Engineering or GCC environments, who combines strategic thinking with exceptional execution capabilities.

We are not looking for someone who merely manages recruitment. We are looking for someone who owns talent delivery, builds capability, understands business and makes hiring happen.

If you have the energy, expertise and ownership mindset to build a world-class Talent Acquisition function, we would like to hear from you.

Benefits

- Health insurance for self and dependents
- Thriving quick-paced work culture
- Attractive performance-linked variable pay

- Tenure linked bonus
- Opportunity to build, scale and lead strategic business organisation.

📌 Head – Talent Acquisition (Bengaluru)
🏢 ETHNUS
📍 Bengaluru