Talent Acquisition Lead

 Job Title: Technical Recruiter

🔶 Experience: 2–5 Years (Technical & FinTech Hiring Experience Preferred)

🔶 Employment Type: Full-Time

🔶 Location: Bangalore

🔶 Joining: Immediate Joiner Preferred

Job Summary

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Technical Recruiter with strong exposure to technology and fintech hiring. The ideal candidate will be responsible for end-to-end recruitment, stakeholder management, and sourcing top technical talent in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle: sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviews, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
• Develop and implement effective hiring strategies for various tech and fintech roles.
• Source candidates through job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, internal database, and other innovative channels.
• Evaluate candidates’ technical skills through screening calls and coordinate with hiring managers for technical evaluation.
• Collaborate closely with tech and product teams to understand job requirements.
• Maintain a strong pipeline of qualified candidates for future requirements.
• Ensure all recruitment activities are aligned with company standards and timelines.
• Provide timely updates and manage expectations of internal stakeholders and candidates.
• Maintain and update recruitment dashboards, trackers, and reports.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience (2–5 years) in Technical Recruitment, preferably in a FinTech environment.
• Strong understanding of technology roles such as Developers, QA, DevOps, Cloud, Data Engineers, Analysts, Product roles, etc.
• Hands-on experience with ATS tools, job portals, and sourcing platforms.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume hiring environment.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Immediate Joiner—ready to join at short notice.
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Good to Have

• Experience hiring for Startups / FinTech companies.
• Basic understanding of tech stacks (Java, Python, Node.js, React, AWS, DevOps, etc.).
• Knowledge of market trends and compensation benchmarking.
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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)

1. Screening resumes of the candidates based on the job description available.

2. Shortlisting resumes based on several search factors such as skills, recently updated resume, location, experience, previous employers etc.

3. Calling the shortlisted candidates to know their interest in the job opening.

4. Convincing candidates to attend the interviews.

5. Finalizing the interview schedule and making the interviewer to be available for taking the interview.

6. After the interview share feedback with the candidate.

7. Salary negotiation and follow-up with them till onboarding.

            Responsible of Monitoring Team members’ daily activity

            Responsible for Manage the team, fix performance metrics and periodical performance review

            Responsible for Effectively handle employee grievances and communicate

            Excellent English communication skills- The ability to communicate effectively is a core skill required to be a successful recruiter.

            Responsible for handling IT requirements from US based clients.

            Responsible for full-cycle recruiting: interview, offer, negotiation and closed candidates for assigned requisitions.

            Sourcing from Job Portals (Monster, Dice, Career builder, Yahoo Hot Jobs), Making job postings on the Job Portal.

            Well versed about US Terms like W2, C2C, 1099, US Visas, etc.

            Responsible to work on Contract, Permanent & C2H (Contract to Hire) positions.

            Responsible for Coordinating fulfillment of other formalities such as background check, drug test etc. leading to joining post placement.

            Responsible for achieving a good conversion ratio of submittals into interview and placement.

            Responsible for Strategy Development process which includes understanding client requirements & mapping the relevant targets.

            Must be having capability to work with a team or individually.

            Maintain close contact with candidates/Vendors/ recruiters/offshore team.

            Publish progress report to management every week.

            Updated about technologies of the Client requirements and knowledge of current IT trends.

Our client is re-imagining skill-based education building the future of higher education. The platform educates young talent from remote India (tier - 2/3 cities/towns) on job-relevant skills and connects skilled graduates to jobs. With more than 200000+ users currently on the platform, it is growing exponentially. We are looking for the missionary talent to join us in the journey to transform higher education and build the university of the future.

• Being an ambassador for the company- attracting and hiring the best talent in the industry
• Driving recruitment strategy for the technical and non-technical role
• Independently driving hiring needs for our business functions end to end and managing the entire lifecycle of recruitment
• Developing and planning recruiting strategies around sourcing, branding, candidate experience and management
• Driving operational excellence across the entire recruitment funnel by actively monitoring our recruiting funnel data, analyzing the results, and identifying areas for improvement
• Ensuring a compelling, engaging candidate experience that helps to strengthen and enhancing our employer brand
• Building proactive sourcing strategies to engage and nurture the pipeline of passive talents and taking steps to approach people from diverse backgrounds
• Initiating and driving projects from time to time to help optimise and making the recruitment process more efficient

Desired Candidate Profile

• 6-8 years experience recruiting, sourcing and engaging talent in an extremely fast-paced environment
• TA experience from startup background or from Fintech will be preferred
• A great understanding of different roles in the industry with an understanding of high-performance culture and hiring standard
• Ability to assess the candidates beyond their work profiles and engaging them throughout the process
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders    

We are looking for an HR Intern to support our HR department’s daily activities.

HR Intern responsibilities include updating our employee records with new hire information, screening resumes and scheduling interviews. If you’re interested in kickstarting your career in HR and getting a closer look at how our company approaches recruiting and employee development, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Screen resumes and application forms
• Schedule and confirm interviews with candidates
• Post, update and remove job ads from job boards, careers pages and social networks
• Removing job advertisements from job boards and social media platforms once vacancies have been filled.
• Assisting the HR staff in gathering market salary information.
• Assisting in the planning of company events.
• Preparing and sending offer and rejection letters or emails to candidates.
• Coordinating new hire orientations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in human resource management or studying toward a degree in human resource management or related field.
• Proven experience working in an office environment.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications.
• The ability to work as part of a team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Detail-oriented.

• Write and post technical job descriptions
• Source potential candidates on niche platforms, like https://resources.workable.com/tutorial/post-a-job-on-stackoverflow">Stack Overflow and Github
• Parse specialized skills and qualifications to screen IT resumes
• Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicants’ abilities
• Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g. structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions)
• Coordinate with IT team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs
• Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates
• Participate in tech conferences and meetups to network with IT professionals
• Compose job offer letters
• Onboard new hires
• Promote company’s reputation as a great place to work
• Conduct job and task analyses to document job duties and requirements
• Keep up-to-date with new technological trends and products

• Proven work experience as a Technical Recruiter or https://resources.workable.com/recruiter-job-description" target="_blank">Recruiter
• Hands-on experience with various interview formats (e.g. https://resources.workable.com/phone-screening-interview-questions" target="_blank">phone, https://resources.workable.com/skype-interview-questions" target="_blank">Skype and https://resources.workable.com/tutorial/structured-interview-questions-guide" target="_blank">structured)
• Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills