We are hiring a Recruitment Specialist who can take care of hiring and team building.
Job Roles and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with managers to identify staffing needs.
- Determine selection criteria.
- Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g. Job portals , Social media platforms, Professional networks).
- Plan interview and selection procedures, including screening calls, assessments and in-person interviews.
- Assess candidate information, including resumes and contact details, using our Applicant Tracking System.
- Design job descriptions and interview questions that reflect each position's requirements.
- Lead employer branding initiatives and manage a team of Recruitment executives.
- Forecast monthly, quarterly and annual hiring needs by department.
- Foster long-term relationships with past applicants and potential candidates.
Requirements:
- Must have experience in IT, Non IT and leadership roles hiring, preferably for startups.
- Proven work experience (minimum 3+ years) as a Recruitment Specialist or similar role.
- Experience in volume/bulk hiring for Sales roles.
- Familiarity with social media, resume databases and professional networks.
- Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A keen understanding of the differences between various roles within organisations.
- B-Tech or MBA in Human Resources Management.

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Job Description – Talent Acquisition Manager
Location: Bangalore (On-site)
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 2+ Years
Company: Squadra Media
About Squadra Media
Squadra Media is a fast-growing digital marketing and technology agency working with global brands to deliver bold, user-centric, and performance-driven solutions. We specialize in performance marketing, creative content, and tech innovations. As we continue to scale, we are seeking a proactive and driven Talent Acquisition (TA) Manager to lead our recruitment efforts and build a strong talent pipeline that supports our growth.
About the Role
The Talent Acquisition Executive will be responsible for end-to-end recruitment, employer branding, and candidate experience. This is a hands-on role, ideal for someone with proven hiring experience who wants to grow into a leadership role while working in a fast-paced creative-tech environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end recruitment: sourcing, screening, interviewing, evaluating, and closing candidates across creative, technical, and business roles.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs and create effective job descriptions.
- Build and maintain a talent pipeline through portals, LinkedIn, referrals, and direct sourcing.
- Use innovative strategies to attract top talent, including passive candidates.
- Ensure a smooth candidate experience from first contact to onboarding.
- Track and report recruitment metrics (time-to-hire, offer-to-join ratio, sourcing effectiveness).
- Contribute to employer branding initiatives to strengthen Squadra Media’s presence in the market.
- Coordinate with HR for smooth onboarding of new hires.
Requirements
- 2+ years of proven experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment.
- Strong background in creative and/or tech hiring (designers, developers, marketers preferred).
- Familiarity with job portals, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other sourcing platforms.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- A proactive, solution-oriented approach with a strong sense of ownership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field.
- Prior experience in a digital agency or startup environment is a plus.
- Knowledge of HR tools, ATS, or recruitment analytics.
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to own and scale the hiring function in a growing creative-tech company.
- Exposure to global brands and diverse hiring needs.
- Fast career growth in a collaborative, innovative environment.
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
Reviewing resumes and applications
Conducting initial telephonic screenings and scheduling interviews
Managing the end-to-end recruitment process
Sourcing candidates through job portals and social media
Client coordination and relationship management
Negotiation and candidate engagement throughout the hiring cycle
Compensation & Benefits:
Competitive salary based on experience and interview performance
Provident Fund, Medical & Accident Insurance
24 days of annual paid leave
Performance-based incentives
Job Responsibilities:
- Oversight of recruitment delivery and operations. Partner closely with the business teams to ensure sourcing and hiring strategies are aligned with People’s strategies.
- Use industry knowledge and experience to identify and attract the best talent in technical or business baseline.
- Determining current hiring needs and producing forecasts
- Develop a sustainable talent acquisition and hiring plans and strategies
- Create, organize, and implement new and enhanced recruiting and selection processes/tools to drive efficiency and improve the quality of hires
- Develop and oversee innovative sourcing strategies to attract talent from non-traditional and/or diverse talent pools
- Actively leverage a network/user group base to promote the brand and tap into potential talent.
- Plan procedures for improving the candidate experience
- Suggest measures for improving employee retention
The ideal candidate must have-
- At least 6+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition or similar TA role - Experience in Tech hiring is a big plus.
- Experience in hiring for Start-ups is a must.
- In-depth knowledge of full-cycle recruiting and sourcing.
- Experience with HRIS, ATS, Sourcing and Recruitment Marketing tools
The following are the responsibilities:
• Develop recruiting strategies as per the business requirements
• Create Job Descriptions in line with the business requirements.
• Identify the best mix of resources to source top tech talent using social media, job boards,
advanced search techniques, referrals, and new age sourcing tools .
• Build and manage relationships with the recruiting agencies.
• Manage the entire recruitment life-cycle including sourcing, screening and qualifying candidates, interviews, maintaining candidate communication and negotiations.
• Hiring for all the verticals across all the levels, primarily non-tech
• Responsible for manpower planning, budget and forecast.
• Create SOP’s for recruitment and set up all hiring process.
• Lead employment branding initiatives and build and execute strategies to ensure very positive candidate experience
• Assist in employee retention and development
• Supervise, guide & train recruiting personnel
• Drive campus engagements, organize and/or attend career fairs and build brand for the company.
Our client is one of the big 4 global management consultancy companies that focuses on achieving outcomes par excellence, by working alongside its clients, who are ambitious change makers across industries, as one team and thus redefining the industries.
They serve across industries such as financial services, aviation, energy and natural resources, aerospace and defense, automotive, technology, retail, health care, etc. They provide consultancy services in various categories including but not limited to, cost transformation, business strategy, customer experience, manufacturing, supply chain, mergers & acquisitions, leadership and talent etc.
What you will do:
- Ensuring optimal matching of people needs, firm needs and client requirements
- Executing a fair and transparent staffing process
- Ensuring balanced teams across various projects/ cases
- Developing one-on-one relationships with individuals within your class
- Regularly meeting with each to discuss their career development, goals, objectives and interests
- Providing guidance and mentoring on career management
- Regularly meeting with each to discuss their career development, goals, objectives, and interests
- Proactively connecting with individuals (and Professional Development Advisors if required), Class Captains (CC) and Class Program Managers (CPM) for periodic check-ins
- Hosting quarterly Staffing Open houses to discuss top-of-mind questions for classes
- Charting out annual engagement plan with classes to cover topics such as transfers, staffing in new roles (e.g. post level change or promotion), long duration staffings etc.
- Seeking support from CCs and CPMs in actively managing class staffing expectations and boosting class morale
- Actively managing expectations, as well as collaborating with them in finding creative ways to work around the challenges, and boosting the class karma/morale
- Working with peers across the global/ regional system to ensure India clients are served well, and supporting global/ regional cases requiring India team members
- Partnering with HR on performance management, employee relations, and other issues related to employment law and policy matters
- Engaging with case team leadership to understand staffing needs, including nature of assignments, staffing requirements, and overseeing staffing of teams to projects based on understanding of client, office and individual needs
- Managing the required trade-offs between business need and professional development needs of the consultants
- Managing and/or attending all Staffing related calls and meetings
- Working with Staffing Manager to ensure decisions best optimize tradeoffs between client service, utilization, and retention
- Continuously improving local staffing processes and supporting global staffing initiatives as required
- Being the single point of contact for approving all the vacation requests that come to staffing, by following a set of filters/criteria/conflicts we need to check for
- Managing staffing processes and databases to a high level of accuracy, including updating the overall allocation database, creating availability summary emails, updating the availability sheet, and owning a variety of weekly/monthly staffing reports
- Supporting the Performance and Career Development processes for the Consulting staff - by providing the Professional Development team with reports that allow them to generate reviews, upward feedback and run the promotion diligence process
- Collaborating with training team to plan the training schedule for your class
- Responding to ad hoc staffing information requests (as required)
- Periodically re-visiting the staffing process and recommending improvements to efficiency and effectiveness
- Continuously advancing local staffing processes
- Supporting regional and global staffing initiatives as required
- Leading/ supporting projects as required e.g. working with Finance to enhance visibility of cost/ revenue ratio for active cases
- Participating in and creating impact with other office/ people-related initiatives
- Being an active member of relevant governance councils e.g. People Council, PD Committee, Promotions Committee
- Demonstrating best practices in following staffing policies and processes
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Postgraduate with, 7-8 years’ work experience in HR/ Talent Management/ Resource Management/Professional Development
- Demonstrated leadership experience in client facing consulting work with at least 3 years of consulting work experience (having played Consultant equivalent or higher roles)
- Competence with Excel, PowerPoint, Word
- Excellent customer-facing communication skills (towards leadership, consulting staff)
- Ability to take high-stake decisions under pressure
- Ability to deal with highly confidential information with discretion
- Eagerness to contribute to team building and people development
- Sound commercial and business judgement
- Working closely with People Head, department leads and founders to gain a comprehensive understanding of the hiring needs for each position, and meeting competitive hiring goals and expectations.
- Planning, designing, creating and releasing job descriptions for various positions.
- Suggesting the hiring process for each role and setting evaluation parameters for assessment.
- Staying active with current job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent.
- Building a pool of manpower sourcing vendors for potential hiring needs.
- Managing the end-to-end hiring lifecycle across levels and roles and target to hire, onboard and retain quality talent.
- Screening resumes and prospects, qualifying, interviewing, and managing candidates throughout the interview process from preparing before interviews to assisting with final offer negotiation.
- Growing and fostering high-touch relationships with a database of qualified active and passive talent.
- Utilizing knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and executing innovative recruiting strategies to find quality candidates and prospecting for new business.
- Continuously collaborating with hiring managers to design, refine, and implement innovative hiring strategies.
- Maintaining a database of candidate records, including active and passive prospects.
- Striving to bring automation in hiring through ATS, pre-boarding software etc.
- Identifying, analysing, presenting and keeping updated the hiring metrics and implementing initiatives to combat/ mitigate the challenges.
- Designing and updating policies related to hiring, onboarding, probation, referral, exit etc.
What you need to have:
- B.Tech ( Mandatory)
- Experience of working in hyper-growth start-up ( Mandatory)
- Technology Hiring ( Mandatory)
- Strong track record in sourcing qualified candidates, market intelligence, mapping, negotiating offers, and influencing management decision-making.
- 3-5 years of experience in engagement/ talent development role, out of which at least 1 year in independently driving end-to-end recruitment.
- Hands-on hiring experience on niche skills, volume hiring and leadership hiring.
- Deep knowledge of sourcing specifically for skills like tech, product, data science, customer experience, digital marketing, lending etc.
- Working knowledge of various social media recruiting channels and should be aware of current market trends.
- Good command over documentation and process flowcharting using tools.
- Passion for creating seamless and engaging candidate experience.
- Excellent organizational skills and an ability to multi-task across concurrent projects with strong attention to detail.
- Proven ability to drive assignments on metrics using technology.
- Strong analytic skills/ comfort in data analysis, including MS Excel modelling & data manipulation skills and ability to manage reports & dashboards.
- Curious about metrics, execution processes, people trends.
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and work with sensitive data and information.
- Excellent communicator having the ability to influence and persuade others.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, both external and internal.
- Commitment to demonstrably improving team metrics.
- Positive, flexible, and proactive, hands-on with a can-do approach.
- Good competitive analysis skills & intelligence to work upon data.
- Ability to identify process inefficiencies and suggest improvements.
- Target driven, detail-oriented and approachable with the ability to prioritize and work well in an environment with competing demands.
- Proficiency in MS-Excel and PowerPoint.
- Good tech startup experience is mandatory
- For gender Diversity, inviting applications only from Girl/Lady candidates

