HR Recruiter / IT recruiter

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced and result-oriented Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and manage the organization’s talent acquisition function. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in IT recruitment, stakeholder management, team leadership, workforce planning, and end-to-end hiring.

The candidate will be responsible for developing effective recruitment strategies, managing the TA team, ensuring timely closure of critical positions, and building a strong talent pipeline aligned with business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Talent Acquisition team and ensure achievement of hiring targets.
• Develop and implement effective end-to-end recruitment strategies for technical and non-technical positions.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce requirements and hiring priorities.
• Manage the complete recruitment lifecycle from requirement gathering, sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, negotiation, and onboarding.
• Handle senior and critical-level hiring independently.
• Track recruitment metrics such as Time-to-Hire, Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, Offer-to-Joining Ratio, Source Effectiveness, and Recruitment Funnel Conversion.
• Establish and monitor team-level KPI/KRA and hiring targets.
• Coach, mentor, and develop recruiters to improve productivity and quality of hiring.
• Conduct regular reviews of recruitment performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Manage candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Lead salary negotiations and offer discussions while ensuring alignment with company compensation structures.
• Work closely with HR and management teams for manpower planning and workforce forecasting.
• Develop talent pools for recurring and future hiring requirements.
• Ensure proper documentation and timely updates in the ATS/recruitment management system.
• Ensure recruitment processes comply with company policies and applicable employment regulations.
• Prepare and present recruitment reports and hiring dashboards to management.
• Educational Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience Required
• 7–10 years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment, preferably within the IT/Technology industry.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in technical recruitment and IT hiring.
• Prior experience in leading or managing a recruitment team.
• Strong understanding of various sourcing techniques and recruitment channels.
• Excellent stakeholder and hiring-manager management skills.
• Strong negotiation and candidate engagement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple positions and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Hands-on experience with ATS, recruitment dashboards, and hiring analytics.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Key Performance Indicators
• Positions closed within defined timelines
• Monthly/quarterly hiring target achievement
• Quality of hire
• Offer-to-joining ratio
• Time-to-hire / Time-to-fill
• Candidate pipeline strength
• Recruiter productivity
• Hiring manager satisfaction
• Employee referral and direct sourcing contribution
• Reduction in recruitment cost and dependency on external agencies
• Preferred Candidate Profile
• A proactive Talent Acquisition professional who combine hands-on recruitment expertise with team leadership and strategic hiring capabilities, while consistently delivering quality talent within defined timelines.

Review Criteria:

Mandatory:

• Strong Technical Recruiter profile
• Must have 7+ years of experience in end to end recruitment (sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, joining etc)
• Must have 4+ years of experience in tech recruitment across different tech roles
• Strong grasp of technical concepts and ability to evaluate candidate fit for different technical roles
• Must have experience of analyzing data to improve hiring funnel, take data-driven hiring decisions
• Must be proficient in advanced sourcing techniques such as Boolean search, social media recruiting, and referral programs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills — should be articulate, confident, and well-spoken in interactions
• Product companies
• This is an IC role

Preferred:

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, or a related field

Role & Responsibilities:

The company’s Human Resources team plays a critical role in enabling business growth by building high-performing, mission-driven teams across geographies. As a people-first organization, we are focused on attracting, developing, and retaining top talent while creating an engaging and inclusive employee experience.

As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you will own end-to-end hiring for technology roles. You will partner closely with technology leaders to understand evolving workforce needs, build strong talent pipelines, and deliver high-quality hiring outcomes. This role requires a strong understanding of technology roles, proactive sourcing capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders while strengthening company’s employer brand.

What you will be expected to do:

• Own and manage the full recruitment lifecycle for technology and IT roles, from sourcing to offer management and onboarding support.
• Partner with technology leaders to understand hiring priorities, role requirements, and future talent needs.
• Design and execute effective sourcing strategies, leveraging online platforms, professional networks, referrals, and offline channels.
• Conduct initial screening and structured interviews using technical, behavioural, and competency-based assessment methods.
• Coordinate and manage interview processes, ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience.
• Review employment applications and background verification reports to ensure compliance with hiring standards.
• Act as a trusted advisor to candidates, providing clarity on role expectations, compensation, benefits, and work culture.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with active and passive talent pools.
• Track and report on key talent acquisition metrics, including time-to-hire, source effectiveness, and pipeline health.
• Stay abreast of market trends, emerging technologies, and competitor hiring practices to strengthen hiring strategies.
• Analyse and improve hiring and candidate experience through surveys, feedbacks, etc.

Ideal Candidate:

• 7 to 10 years of overall recruitment experience, with 4-7 years focused on technical/IT hiring.
• Good understanding of technology roles and the ability to assess and articulate technical requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and resume databases.
• Good analytical skills, including market mapping, talent research, and data-driven hiring decisions.
• Proficiency in advanced sourcing techniques such as Boolean search, social media recruiting, and referral programs.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence both candidates and hiring managers.
• High levels of ownership, self-motivation, and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, or a related field (preferred).

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture:

• Because we are a high-growth global enterprise, and because we prefer to promote successful employees internally, Greenlight Planet offers opportunities for flexible assignments and rapid international career progression as well as a competitive salary and a fun, supportive work environment. Our Creative team, headquartered in Nairobi, is an innovative team, operating in a stimulating atmosphere where our only measure is in the results we deliver.
• Greenlight Planet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/Aids, disability or any other protected characteristic as established by law. If you are a committed, passionate professional who wants to become part of a compelling social venture that is redefining energy access in Asia and Africa for the underserved, we want to hear from you.

EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TASKS?

● Liaise with clients to understand role requirements in order to source the most suitable candidates

● Source, screen and compile a shortlist of qualified candidates for various technical roles

● Screen the candidates to ensure we put forward the best quality candidates to clients

● Recruit senior IT profiles, with a focus on functional expertise

●Communicate with hiring managers in order to understand vacancy requirements fully

● Establish a strategy in order to deliver suitable candidates on time

● Build and develop relationships with both clients and candidates to provide a high level of client and candidate service

● Connect and coordinate with external vendors to support hiring needs

● Serve the business at a very deep and high touch level

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

● 1 year of full life-cycle IT Recruiting Experience, in either an agency or corporate setting

● Familiarity with different selection methods (screening, interviews, assignments)

● Excellent follow-up skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a hands-on, fast-paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity

● Must have Strong Knowledge of IT Technologies and skills

● Experience in handling multiple vendors.

● Great interpersonal and communication skills

● MBA in human resources or similar relevant field

Position - Recruiter & HR

About the role

Identify qualified Tech & Non-tech candidate profiles using various sourcing techniques

Proactively interact with potential candidates through various job portals, social media, and professional networks (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed, Angle list)

Work directly with the founders and develop talent pipelines for future hiring needs and strategic roles

Ensuring a good candidate experience during the recruitment process

As our first HR hire, be responsible for some of the other early stage HR functions (Onboarding & Policies).

What are we looking for?

3-5+ years working in the early stage startups or similar organizations

You are a self-starter and can make decisions on your feet with minimal supervision, end-to-end ownership to drive outcomes.

You possess deep employee empathy

We are location agnostic, but in the same time zone (India). We have a small garden office @ Jayanagar, Bangalore (home to some of the best dosas in India) to jam together on anything that requires space.

You are somebody who shares the same ethos.

Bonus

You've an interest in EdTech & learning.

You have interests outside work, in art, music, cooking, dance or any other similar skill.

What is our interview process?

An initial 30 min call to understand each other at a high level.

Work on a case study or assignment together to ensure a good match.

UPCRED powers AI-Recommendation on Social Content Creators, helping them discover content monetization and helping Brands/Businesses explore Influencer Marketing.

The company’s advert platform is powered by artificial intelligence, which is used by businesses for Influencer Discovery, Campaign Management, and Campaign Analytics through UPCRED Pixel Management.

Our technology visions to have one-third of the world's social consumers discover new things through recommendation feeds from their favourite social media creator and which connects advertisers to these audiences to grow their business.

UPCRED Social has long-term partnerships with a variety of digital content creators and has the vision to democratize the social earning for content creators in India.

UPCRED Advert wants to be an all-in-one influencer marketing platform designed to help businesses own their influencer relationships.

Proven work experience as an HR Recruiter or similar role.
Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases.
Experience with sourcing techniques.
Understanding of referral programs.
Solid verbal and written communication skills.
Sound judgment.

Desired Candidate Profile

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in full recruitment cycle for technical roles
• Background in IT, knowledge of the basics of the latest IT technologies, programming languages
• Good command in verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent negotiation skills and candidate engagement skills
• Adaptibility to new technologies and business environment
• Positive attitude    

Technical Recruiter / HR Executive

Notice Period: 30 days / Immediate Joining

Banyan Data Services (BDS) is a US-based IT Managed Services company focused on the Data Services, DevOps, and Cloud services to support Enterprise Applications, headquartered in San Jose, California USA.

We are looking for an HR Executive/Manager to join our India team based out of Bangalore. This team focuses on the most innovative and emerging data infrastructure management and DevOps tools to support highly scalable and available infrastructure and Cloud platforms.

It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a rocket ship startup run by a world-class executive team. You will be given high-level exposure to work with the executive team and to be part of the cutting-edge solutions and services we offer that address next-gen data evolution challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

3 - 7 years of experience in Technical Recruiting /Staffing experience/HR Operations

Excellent interpersonal, presentation, written, verbal, and negotiation skills

Effectively utilizes recruiting tools including networking through social media outlets, professional affiliations, job boards, database searches, etc

Technical Staffing initiatives including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation and welfare benefits, training and development, records management

Background working at a small to mid-sized technology startup in a high growth stage

Must possess critical thinking, strong planning, time management, and organizational skills

Ability to prioritize tasks to meet individual and business goals.

Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Must be diversity Oriented to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type

Competitive drive & strong work ethic, “whatever it takes” attitude.

Bachelor’s Degree in human resources, business administration, finance, IT, or related field

Key Responsibilities

Strategically advise and work with company leadership for building an amazing team. From attracting and hiring the right people, to creating programs that will engage and cultivate their talents once hired, to implementing team building and retention strategies to keep them engaged, you will lead the charge to create and implement these programs and initiatives.

Demonstrates competency in the execution of the full life cycle recruitment process (source, screen, submit, pipeline, etc.), policies and guidelines, and client service objectives.

Hands-on experience utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean search preferred

Writing job descriptions and screening applications for competency with the hiring requirements.

Scheduling and keeping tracking of all applicants as well as keeping applicants informed on the application process.

Demonstrates a proficient understanding of the business and industry; can effectively build relationships with candidates to create and sustain a pipeline for future positions. Can utilize established networks to anticipate and meet client requests.

Payroll processing for all employees.

Lead and inspire in all areas of the people services. We’re looking for someone with a high degree of emotional resilience, ethics, thoughtfulness, and positivity for this role as you’ll be looked at as a leader amongst the team.

Strategically advise company leadership for all things related to people services as well as a generalist who is seen as the point of contact within the company for all people services.

Understand our company services, technology stack and work with the technology team leader to align our recruitment practice for the effective hiring process.

Coordinate with IT team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs

Must be flexible to work on the office timings and off-hours to accommodate the multi-national teams

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Hands on experience in sourcing through job portals and referrals.

Good experience in IT or Non IT recruitment .

Willingness & ability to handle end to end recruitment including internal recruitment.

Should be able to handle multiple requirements simultaneously.

Comfortable with niche hiring & critical search assignments.

Interaction with the candidates and briefing them about the requirement.

Experience in handling walk-in drives.

Interaction with the clients.

Maintain all recruitment-related reports and forms

Should have good working knowledge in Microsoft Excel

Excellent command in verbal and written English.