About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Talent Acquisition Lead to build and run a high-performing recruitment team while personally closing a focused set of strategic roles. You will set the hiring strategy, coach a team of 67 recruiters, and keep our hiring process fast, fair and candidate-friendly. This is a player-coach role: roughly 70% leadership and 30% direct hiring.

Role & responsibilities

1. Team Leadership

- Lead, mentor and manage a team of 67 recruiters and sourcers; set goals, review performance and support career growth.
- Allocate requisitions across the team based on skills, capacity and business priority.
- Run weekly pipeline reviews, remove blockers and hold the team accountable to hiring SLAs.
- Onboard current team members and build a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous learning.

1. Hiring Strategy and Delivery

- Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to forecast headcount, define role requirements and agree on hiring plans.
- Design sourcing strategies across job boards, LinkedIn, referrals, communities, campuses and agencies.
- Own the end-to-end recruitment process: intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation and closing.
- Strengthen employer branding and candidate experience at every stage.

1. Personal Hiring Target

- Directly own and close a small portfolio of critical or senior roles (depending on business needs).
- Lead by example in sourcing, assessment and closing quality.

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Process, Data and Compliance

- Track and report key metrics: time-to-hire, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, source effectiveness, quality of hire and cost-per-hire.
- Manage the ATS, keep data clean and use insights to improve process.
- Manage agency and vendor relationships, including budgets and fee negotiations.
- Promote structured interviewing, diversity and inclusive hiring, and ensure compliance with labor laws and company policy.

Preferred candidate profile

Must Have

- 3–6 years of recruitment experience, including at least 2 years leading a team.
- Proven record of hiring across both technical and non-technical roles, ideally in a fast-growing environment.
- Strong sourcing skills and comfort with direct, hands-on recruiting.
- Experience with an ATS (Keka Hire) and recruitment analytics.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and communication skills.

Good to Have
- Experience with senior or leadership hiring.
- Exposure to employer branding, campus hiring or hiring at scale.
- Experience building recruitment playbooks and processes from scratch.

Key Metrics
- Time-to-fill and time-to-hire
- Offer acceptance rate
- Quality of hire and 6-month retention of new hires
- Candidate and hiring manager satisfaction
- Team engagement and recruiter productivity
- Personal closures against target

Perks and benefits Health insurance, Provident fund

📌 Talent Acquisition Team Lead (Kozhikode)
🏢 Lanstitut Technologies
📍 Kozhikode