Senior Technical Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Lead
at A fast-growing bank recognized for its robust retail banking
Role Title: Senior Technical Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Lead Function/Department: Human Resources – Talent Acquisition
Location: Chennai - Tharamani
Experience & Expertise Required:
• 7–12 years of proven success in technical recruitment, preferably in high-growth product or digital engineering environments.
• Demonstrated ability to attract passive candidates through innovative sourcing strategies.
• Deep understanding of tech talent market dynamics, especially in digital engineering and product development.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and advise senior leaders.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Passionate about building diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams.
• Good to have prior experience managing a small team.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Talent Acquisition:
• Design and implement high-impact recruitment strategies to attract top-tier talent for niche,
cutting edge and critical roles.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements and align hiring plans with
business goals.
• Act as a talent advisor, offering market intelligence, benchmarking insights, and best
practices.
Sourcing Excellence:
• Leverage advanced sourcing techniques including LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow,
Google X-ray search, and other platforms.
• Build and maintain a robust pipeline of top talent, including passive candidates.
• Drive talent mapping initiatives to stay ahead of market trends and competitor movements.
Process Optimization:
• Continuously improve recruitment cycle time and candidate experience.
• Recommend and implement changes to recruitment policies and processes.
• Lead automation and process improvement projects to enhance efficiency.
Qualifications:
• Graduate (preferably in Engineering) or Postgraduate (MBA in HR preferred)
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- Proactively partner with leadership across the portfolio to determine hiring requirements and develop sourcing and acquisition strategies which include exploring talent partner relationships, tapping into alumni programs, consulting organizations, campus placement drives and other innovative sources.
- Understand resource requirements for thematic areas and verticals, design appropriate job profiles, identify the appropriate talent acquisition strategy and maintain an extensive database with appropriate metrics to track and monitor requirements promptly.
- Execute all stages of the recruitment process from start to end.
- Collaborate with the vertical leads of different organizations and Project Team leads and augment and oversee the induction program for all employees.
- Augment the employer branding strategy and ensure implementation of the short-term and long-term deliverables carved out for the organization and the portfolio organizations
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- Master's degree required preferably in Human Resources, Psychology, Business or any relevant fields.
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- Extensive experience in partnering and working with multiple stakeholders
- Having past experience of working in matrix organizations would be a preference.
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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
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- 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
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What you will do:
- Serving as a go-between the candidates and hiring managers
- Coordinating the hiring process end-to-end
- Building and reporting on quarterly and annual hiring plans
- Creating and publishing job ads in various portals
- Networking with potential hires through professional groups on social media and during events
- Collaborating with hiring managers to set qualification criteria for future employees
- Screening resumes and job applications
- Conducting initial phone screens to create shortlists of qualified candidates
- Interviewing candidates in person for a wide range of roles (junior,senior, and executive)
- Tracking hiring metrics including time-to-hire, time-to-fill, and source of hire
- Designing, distributing and measuring the results of candidate experience surveys
- Training and advising hiring managers on interviewing techniques and assessment methods
- Hosting and participating in job fairs
- Following up with candidates throughout the hiring process
- Maintaining a database of potential candidates for future job
What you need to have:
- Excellent communication skills
- Compliance knowledge
- Time management skills
- Organizing & Relationship building skills
We are building for the future of work by changing the way the world looks at information and data paradigms. The Meaning Engine by India-based Needle Innovision enables building solutions by processing meaningful data out of anything stored anywhere - structured, unstructured data types, distributed, at scale and more.
In our quest to do more, we are looking for a fantastic Talent Acquisition Specialist to join us in a hybrid setting. Below are some (seriously important) green flags that we are looking for from you:
🟢 Ability to build and repeat the vision, not just work on tasks in the new phase of your career
🟢 Empathy for people and ability to connect with diverse individuals
🟢 Be a transparent and communicative person
🟢 Champion Diversity and Inclusion initiatives and incorporate them in the hiring process
This could be an awesome launching pad for someone who believes in our mantra of "find them, grow them, keep them,". Our teams are sustained on values of care and we offer a generous number of vacation days, the opportunity to craft your calendar with flexible schedules and very soon an insurance plan for you and your loved ones.
What you will do:
- Coordinate with the functional and technical team leads to identify staffing needs
- Determine selection criteria and standardize the selection process across tech and non-tech roles
- Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g. social platforms and professional networks)
- Plan interview and selection procedures, including screening calls, assessments and in-person/virtual interviews
- Assess candidate information, including resumes and contact details, and maintain an updated pipeline
- Design compelling job descriptions and interview questions that reflect each position’s requirements
- Lead employer branding initiatives and collaborate with the Marketing and Communications team, when needed
- Foster long-term relationships with past applicants and potential candidates
What you will bring:
- 2-4 years experience in talent acquisition (preferably in a start-up environment) and hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
- Proficiency in maintaining the hiring pipeline for multiple roles, at the junior - mid-level roles (experience in hiring for leadership roles can be a bonus)
- Familiarity with social media, resume databases, and professional networks (e.g. Stack Overflow and Github)
- Ability to devise innovative sourcing strategies for potential applicants
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to work closely with others across different teams.
- A keen understanding of the requirements for each role in the company
- Proficiency in documenting processes and keeping up with industry trends
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-Must know basic excel
-Skilled in candidate screening & initial telephonic interview
-Must be a graduate, MBA in HR/IR or MSW will be an added advantage
-Must be an immediate joiner (15 days or less)
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