Recruitment

The Talent Acquisition Specialist – IT Recruitment is responsible for identifying, attracting, and hiring high-quality technical talent in line with business requirements. The role focuses on timely, cost-effective, and quality-driven hiring while building strong talent pipelines and delivering an excellent candidate and stakeholder experience through data-driven recruitment practices.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with hiring managers to understand current and future IT hiring needs

Translate business requirements into structured recruitment plans with timelines and deliverables

Conduct detailed role intake discussions covering skills, experience, and behavioral competencies

Manage end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from sourcing to offer closure

Source candidates through multiple channels including job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, and internal databases

Screen, interview, and assess candidates to build high-quality shortlists

Schedule and coordinate interviews while ensuring smooth candidate experience

Provide market insights and hiring recommendations to stakeholders

Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and recurring IT roles

Track recruitment metrics such as TAT, quality of hire, and cost efficiency

Job Location - Andheri- Onsite

Role Overview

The Manager – Talent Acquisition will play a strategic and hands-on role in building a strong talent pipeline aligned with business goals. The role involves close collaboration with business leaders to proactively identify hiring needs, attract and recruit high-quality talent within defined cost and timelines, and continuously improve hiring outcomes through data-driven decision-making and superior candidate experience.

This position is responsible for driving recruitment excellence, optimizing sourcing channels (internal and external), and strengthening employer branding while ensuring compliance, consistency, and efficiency across the hiring lifecycle.

Principal Purpose

Partner closely with department heads and stakeholders to proactively identify current and future talent requirements.

Attract, engage, and hire the right talent at the right cost, quality, and time.

Explore, optimize, and manage multiple sourcing channels to build a sustainable talent pipeline.

Drive recruitment excellence through experience design, process optimization, and data-backed insights.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Strategic Workforce Planning

Identify talent needs and translate them into a comprehensive recruitment plan aligned with business priorities.

Ensure hiring plans are delivered within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality benchmarks.

Develop a deep understanding of role requirements, including technical skills, experience, and behavioral competencies required for success.

Stakeholder Partnership

Conduct detailed vacancy intake discussions with hiring managers to align on expectations, hiring strategy, and timelines.

Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders by sharing market insights, talent availability, and hiring trends.

Continuously evolve recruitment strategies based on changing business needs and market dynamics.

End-to-End Recruitment Management

Create and manage hiring plans with clear deliverables, milestones, and formal tracking mechanisms.

Coordinate, schedule, and conduct interviews in line with role specifications and organizational standards.

Screen, interview, and assess candidates to build strong shortlists within consistent timelines.

Conduct in-depth candidate interviews and anticipate hiring manager preferences to ensure strong role fit.

Talent Pipeline & Sourcing

Build and maintain a strong network of potential candidates through proactive sourcing, research, and relationship management.

Leverage internal talent pools, referrals, job portals, social media, agencies, and other sourcing channels effectively.

Ensure a continuous pipeline of ready-to-hire talent for critical and future roles.

Process Excellence & Data-Driven Decisions

Track and analyze recruitment metrics such as time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, quality-of-hire, and candidate experience.

Use data insights to improve hiring efficiency, decision-making, and overall recruitment outcomes.

Drive continuous improvement in recruitment processes, tools, and systems.

Team Leadership

Lead, mentor, and guide Talent Acquisition Specialists to ensure high performance and capability development.

Set clear goals, review performance, and foster a collaborative and high-accountability culture within the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare the most effective sourcing approach and plan based on the final requirements, including sourcing platforms, acquisition pitch, acquisition funnel, etc.
• Drive the sourcing efforts and ensure the right quality of candidates are sourced based on the requirements and within the committed timelines.
• Communicate role specifications and terms to the candidates clearly and transparently.
• Drive negotiations with the candidates and help resolve their queries and concerns effectively.
• Communicate any specific requests or modifications required by the candidate to the Engagement Manager proactively.
• Ensure a clear track of progress, transparency, and coordination within the Expert team.
• Screen applicants on call to ensure they meet the necessary technical qualifications and requirements for the respective roles.
• Evaluate candidates' technical skills, knowledge, and abilities based on the job description.
• Provide constructive feedback and maintain detailed records of candidates' technical evaluations, feedback, and assessment outcomes.
• Generate regular reports on sourcing activities and other relevant data points.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in technical screening methodologies.
• Continuously refine and optimize the technical sourcing process to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and candidate experience.

Job description

Company Description

Watch Your Health is a health-tech company based in Thane, specializing in innovative digital health solutions that enhance user engagement, improve health outcomes, and drive business growth. The platform combines AI-driven tools and wellness programs to provide personalized, data-driven healthcare for individuals and corporates.

 Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role in Thane for an HR Recruiter at Watch Your Health. The HR Recruiter will be responsible for sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates. They will also be involved in onboarding new employees, managing employee relations, and ensuring compliance with labor laws and company policies.

 Qualifications

Recruitment and Interviewing skills

Employee Onboarding and Employee Relations skills

Knowledge of labor laws and HR policies

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• To hire for all the sales openings
• To generate offer letters
• Providing quality candidates & Employee retention

Skills Required

1. Proven work experience as a Technical Recruiter or Recruiter

2. Ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles

3.Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)

4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Manager- Talent Acquisition

Who we are?

At Edge, we believe simplifying employee data will help large corporates solve sub-optimal talent management problems. This data is more critical after the pandemic, as managing a remote workforce has shifted from optional to essential.

We have spent our last eight years understanding the workforce from the IT and BFSI industries. We have used this employee data to create a sophisticated intelligence. This brain behind our AI-based products is called EdGE graph™. We have used 11 million job descriptions and more than 30 million profiles to build the graph.

Our products like Pathfinder, Recruit and Mobility are deployed in IT companies like Wipro, HCL, UST Global, etc. and help them upskill, invest, and maintain their existing people. It has helped organisations improve their workforce availability, billing, allocations and drive straight bottom-line impacts. The new order of talent decisions helps us define, identify, and plan for a future-ready workforce.

We build end-to-end talent management products for organisations so that they have a 360-degree view of their talent supply chain. This helps them make informed talent decisions efficiently and build an intelligent workforce.

We built Edge Networks in 2012 in an apartment in Bangalore and soon, were supported by the National Skill Development Corporation of India (NSDC). We are a part of the NASSCOM Product Council and have been recognized by Gartner, Deloitte, Equidam, NVIDIA, Amazon as an innovative tech HR startup in various titles.

At Edge, we understand that modern companies that put the employees at the center of their workings, backed with data, will make their organisation productive. This is how we, at Edge, use tech for good.

Role:

As a Manager -Talent Acquisition you will be responsible to take care of all the recruitment related activities for the organization both Tech and non- tech. You will also be responsible to drive the entire function independently and manage stakeholders as well. Work very closely with the HRBP to manage risk and work on succession planning. You will be the first point of contact for the probable candidates for the organization and drive the company’s brand value. 

Traits that you have

A team player – I know we only win if we all win. I recognise and value the different perspectives and skills my squad mates bring. It is not about being a hero but jumping in and contributing to the successful delivery of our mission.

An excellent communicator – I know and understand the importance of clear, on-time communication. My spoken and written communication skills stand out for clarity and conciseness.  

A collaboration champion – I work closely with my colleagues to ensure alignment and champion the sharing of learning across teams.

Comfortable being uncomfortable – I am comfortable with uncertainty. I have the ability to effectively manage myself through ambiguity by making meaning, building relationships and creating clarity with my peers.

Continuous improvement junkie – I constructively challenge the status quo, I look for better ways of doing things and passionately advocate continuous improvement.

Committed to my own and others’ growth – I strive to stretch and grow myself and others by identifying my own development areas, seeking feedback, and providing feedback to others to help them learn and grow every day.

A problem solver – I am energised by tackling complex problems. I use my critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge, and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the product.

Commercially and Tech curious – I have a wide-angle lens. I am curious about what is happening in the external market and in emerging trends and innovations (technological and otherwise) and how we use this information to better inform our decisions and actions.

Risk savvy – I build sustainable solutions that protect stakeholders and customers and proactively address risks by role-modelling improvements in the product’s overall risk and control environment.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for taking care of end-end recruitment process across the organization which will include tech and non-tech roles across all job levels till on-boarding.
• Work very closely with the stakeholders to understand their requirements and work consultatively giving suggestions on market availability of talent, market dynamics, salary ranges and competitive salary packages.
• Maintain HR metrics like – Cost per hire, Quality of hire etc
• Create a continuous pipeline of candidates with passive job seekers to maintain a relevant talent pool.

Role Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Talent acquisition with relevant industry hiring.
• Should have worked and scaled teams in startups.
• Subject matter expert in defining the roles for different line of businesses
• Independently managed stakeholders and worked closely on the hiring needs
• Excellent communication skills
• Hands on excel skills to build dashboards and excel reports.
• Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in computer science or related streams is preferable.