Recruiter (Intern)

Role : Senior Technical Recruiter - US Market

Location : Hyderabad(Onsite)

Shift : 7:00 PM to 4:00 AM(IST)

Full-time

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Recruiter with proven leadership capabilities and deep expertise in the US staffing market. The ideal candidate will have a strong background hiring for AI, Product-based, and SaaS organizations, along with the ability to mentor recruiters, drive hiring strategy, and partner closely with stakeholders to deliver high-quality talent at scale.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for complex technical roles across AI, Product, and SaaS domains in the US market
• Partner with hiring managers, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to understand hiring needs and workforce planning
• Drive hiring strategy, market intelligence, and talent mapping for niche and high-demand skill sets
• Mentor, guide, and review the work of junior recruiters to improve quality, speed, and candidate experience
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle: sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding support
• Utilize advanced sourcing techniques (LinkedIn, Boolean, job boards, referrals, ATS, talent pools)
• Ensure compliance with US staffing regulations, hiring practices, and documentation standards
• Build and maintain strong pipelines for roles including Software Engineering, AI/ML, Data, Product, Cloud, DevOps, and Architecture
• Track and report recruitment metrics (time-to-hire, conversion ratios, quality of hire)
• Strengthen employer branding and candidate engagement for US-based clients and roles

Required Experience & Skills :

• 5+ years of experience in US Technical Recruitment / US Staffing
• Strong hiring exposure in AI, Product-based, and SaaS organizations
• Hands-on experience recruiting for complex technical roles across multiple tech stacks
• Proven leadership or mentoring experience within a recruitment team
• Excellent understanding of the US recruitment lifecycle, time zones, and client expectations
• Expertise in Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS tools, and sourcing platforms
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume, high-quality hiring environment

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience working with product companies, startups, or global SaaS firms
• Prior experience managing or scaling recruitment teams
• Exposure to diversity hiring initiatives in the US market
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist , you will be responsible for sourcing, screening and placing top-quality candidate in clients company

Key Responsibilities

Interview Panel Sourcing: Identify and connect with senior IT professionals to onboard them as freelance interview panelists on our platform.

Candidate Engagement: Reach out to experienced IT professionals, explain the benefits of joining Incruiter, and convince them to register as interviewers.

Boolean Search & Sourcing: Utilize Boolean search techniques and sourcing tools like Naukri, LinkedIn, and other job portals to find suitable panelists.

Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationships with senior IT professionals to ensure long-term engagement with our platform.

Client JD Alignment: Understand various job descriptions from different clients to ensure the right panelists are onboarded for relevant technical assessments.

TAT Adherence: Ensure quick turnaround time for onboarding interview panelists based on business requirements.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Freshers with prior 3-6 months of internship experience in IT Recruitment.

Strong understanding of IT technologies and job roles.

Proficiency in sourcing tools like Naukri, LinkedIn, and Boolean search.

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

Excellent communication and persuasion skills to onboard senior IT professionals.

Ability to multitask and meet onboarding targets within the defined timelines.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Build talent pipelines for current and future job openings
• Lead all sourcing strategies
• Manage our external partnerships with colleges, job boards and HR software vendors
• Implement online and offline employer branding activities
• Prepare and review our annual recruitment budget
• Oversee all stages of candidate experience (including application, interviews and communication)
• Forecast hiring needs based on business growth plans
• Manage, train and evaluate our team of recruiters
• Participate in and host recruitment events to drive awareness of our company
• Develop a network of potential future hires (e.g. past applicants and referred candidates)
• Measure key recruitment metrics, like source of hire and time-to-hire

Desired Candidate Profile

• Proven work experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist or similar role
• Demonstrable experience managing full-cycle recruiting and employer branding initiatives
• Solid understanding of sourcing techniques and tools (e.g. social networks)
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSs) and HR databases
• Good team-management abilities
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to foster long-term relationships (with internal teams, external partners and candidates)
• BSc/MSc in Human Resources Management or relevant field

Collaborate with business leads/managers, team members, RPO partners, recruitment agencies and other groups to run an effective recruiting unit

• Own planning and achievement of team targets, help team members on aspects like sourcing, quality checks, meeting their goals
• Implement weekly/monthly execution strategies through your team (5-6 members) to provide effective, in-time hires
• Work within predefined recruitment processes, also assess scope for improvement and build new methodologies
• Work on offer-generation, negotiation and post offer follow-up
• Continuously think and implement better candidate engagement practices (pre and post offer)
• Take initiatives to improve offer to join ratio and track necessary data trends
• Prepare team interview coordination plans and manage interviews in and out of Pune
• Work meticulously on ATS adherence and motivate the team to do so
• Work on data gathering, analysing and reporting, fetch meaningful hiring data trends

Required professional and technical expertise:

• Minimum 8 - 12years of experience in recruiting (preferably in IT corporates or Large RPO's)
• Must have worked on niche skills and targeted hiring (headhunting)
• Expertise in sourcing through social media channels and other innovative sourcing channels would be a plus
• Demonstrable experience in partner management and strength to hold difficult conversations with them
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills, ability to lead a team

• Sound knowledge on sourcing skills and knowledge about paid and unpaid job sites.
• Social media hiring, volume hiring 
• 70 % non tech roles like sales, marketing , BDM, backend support roles.
• 30% of technical recruitments like Php, Java...etc
• Very good communication skills and great negotiation skills (very important)

This role is for the IT Recruiter of the company and you'll be reporting to the Senior Manager of Business Operations.

As an IT recruiter you will be working to;

1. Identify and screen the best of available talents at the shortest possible time with a focus on quality

2. Maintain and develop the pipeline of eligible candidates for future open positions

3. Develop proactive sourcing strategies to engage and increase the number of qualified applicants in the database for active and passive talent.

4. Qualify or reject candidates based on introductory calls via phone and emails

Job qualifications and requirements - A degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science is highly preferred.

1. A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions
2. Knowledge of software terms, technology stacks, and software roles
3. Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to visualize processes and outcomes
4. Outstanding all-round communication skills and ability to work collaboratively

LrnEd Technologies is a product-based company doing business as (DBA) Outdefine (www.outdefine.com). We help top software engineers work remotely for top US startups. Outdefine is founded and backed by engineers from Facebook, Google, Stanford, OnDeck, and StartX. Join our world-class team and work to reinvent the way we transform the future of work.