ZenTrades AI is looking for a high-ownership Talent Acquisition Partner to own end-to-end hiring as we scale our teams. This is a core business role, not a support function. You will work closely with leadership and hiring managers to build strong, high-performing teams in a fast-growing SaaS environment.
This role is ideal for someone who has scaled teams in startups before, understands the pace and ambiguity of growth, and enjoys building hiring processes that actually work.
What You’ll Own
Own end-to-end recruitment across tech and non-tech roles
Partner with business leaders on hiring plans, role design, and talent strategy
Build and manage talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, referrals, and networks
Drive a strong candidate experience aligned with our culture
Continuously improve interview frameworks, hiring processes, and TA metrics
Act as a trusted hiring partner to stakeholders
What We’re Looking For
3–6 years of Talent Acquisition experience in startups / high-growth SaaS companies
Proven track record of scaling teams in fast-paced environments
Ability to own hiring independently with minimal hand-holding
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Comfort working in ambiguity, speed, and changing priorities
What This Is NOT
A coordination-only or sourcing-only role
A role with narrow scope or limited ownership
Why Join Clara AI
Opportunity to own hiring impact at scale
Work closely with leadership and key business teams
Build and evolve hiring processes and talent strategy
Clear growth path into TA Lead / People Partner roles
Who Will Thrive Here
Recruiters who have built and scaled teams in startups
People who think business-first, not process-first
Individuals who take ownership of outcomes, not just activities
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Location: Bangalore (Work from Office)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Joining: Immediate Joiners Preferred
About the Role
We are looking for a dynamic and result-oriented HR Associate with 1–3 years of experience in recruitment and onboarding for niche technology roles. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in sourcing and shortlisting candidates for Full Stack (MERN), AI/ML, and QA Automation roles, with a proven ability to manage end-to-end recruitment cycles.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing to onboarding
- Identify, source, and shortlist candidates for roles like:
- Full Stack Development (MERN Stack – MongoDB/MySQL, Express.js, React, Node.js)
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML)
- QA Automation Engineering (Selenium, Playwright, API Testing, etc.)
- Utilize multiple sourcing channels such as job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, and networking
- Screen resumes and conduct initial HR interviews to assess candidate suitability
- Coordinate with hiring managers to understand technical requirements and hiring priorities
- Ensure a smooth and positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process
- Maintain and update candidate databases and recruitment trackers
- Meet hiring targets within defined timelines
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA (HR or related field) or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
- Experience working in product-based companies or startups
- Familiarity with modern QA tools and automation frameworks
- Strong professional network in the tech hiring ecosystem
- Immediate availability or short notice period
Role Overview
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated HR professional to join our growing team. The ideal candidate should be proactive, organized, and capable of managing end-to-end HR operations.
🔑 Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end recruitment lifecycle
- Handle employee documentation and compliance
- Oversee onboarding and offboarding processes
- Address and resolve employee grievances
- Support day-to-day HR operations
🎯 Requirements
- Minimum 1+ year experience in HR / Recruitment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently
- Basic knowledge of HR processes and compliance
Job Title: Talent Acquisition Associate
Location: Worli, Mumbai (Hybrid Working)
Experience: 1-2 years
About Qrata
We match top talent with highly competitive career opportunities with leading startups in India
and globally and address hiring challenges, recruitment brand marketing, with innovative and
collaborative strategic consulting.
Position Overview:
As a Talent Acquisition Associate at Qrata, you will be an essential part of our human resources team, responsible for sourcing, attracting, and hiring talented professionals. You will work closely with hiring managers to understand their staffing needs and ensure we bring in the best talent to support our company's growth. This position offers the opportunity for hybrid working, combining both remote and in-office collaboration, with our office located in Worli, Mumbai.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with hiring managers to understand job requirements and create detailed job descriptions.
- Develop and implement effective talent acquisition strategies to attract high-quality candidates.
- Source candidates through various channels, including job boards, social media, and professional networks.
- Screen and evaluate resumes and applications to identify potential candidates.
- Conduct initial interviews to assess candidate qualifications and cultural fit.
- Coordinate and schedule interviews with hiring managers.
- Manage the recruitment process from start to finish, ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience.
- Extend job offers and negotiate terms with candidates.
- Build and maintain a talent pipeline for future staffing needs.
- Assist with other HR-related tasks and projects as needed.
Qualifications:
- 1-2 years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment.
- Knowledge of recruitment best practices and sourcing techniques.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and HR software.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Familiarity with employment laws and regulations.
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.
Qualities
1. Prefer people with experience of recruiting diverse profiles across business functions & levels.
2. Prefer people with FMCG & start-up exposure
3. Prefer people with exposure to both tech & non-tech hiring
4. Prefer people from Tier-1/Tier-2 colleges
5. Prefer people with very good communication skills, develop faster connect with internals &
externals and who have very strong selling skills.
Responsibilities:
· Responsible for Technology hiring across levels and manage a team of recruiters
· Responsible for end to end Talent Acquisition including planning and strategizing for deliverables, sourcing and attracting candidates through various active and passive channels; candidate engagement; stakeholder management; reporting; database management etc.
· High end ownership of the deliverables.
· Focus on priorities, drive & deliver successfully.
· Maintain effective communication with the hiring managers and candidates.
· Build influential candidate relationships throughout the process.
· Follow and practice latest recruitment trends and strategies.
· Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and networking.
· Proactively resolve bottle necks.
· Prepare and submit timely progress reports to various stakeholders.
· Involve in various initiatives for process improvement and talent branding
What are we looking for?
· Proven 5 -10 years of experience in technical recruitment with excellence in hiring across levels, stakeholder management, database management, reporting etc
· Ability to manage a team of recruiters and sourcers
· Expertise in stakeholder management and leading an entire unit of hiring independently
· Possess the ability to assess candidates against profiles and the culture
· Strong understanding about engineering and product requisitions
· Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and work under tight timelines
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· Impeccable multitasking and organizational skills
· Always pushing the limits
· Excellent relationship building and analytical skills
· Knowledge of latest recruitment trends and practices
· Proven skills in attracting candidates through various social media channels
· Detailed oriented, organized, discrete and dedicated professional
About Company :
Our client is a renowned social transformation organization that bridges government, corporates, non-profits as well as citizens to create a sustainable livelihood for underprivileged urban youth.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- 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
Requirements :
- Master's degree required preferably in Human Resources, Psychology, Business or any relevant fields.
- 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience
- Extensive experience in partnering and working with multiple stakeholders
- Having past experience of working in matrix organizations would be a preference.
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency level in Microsoft Office - Excel, Word & PowerPoint
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
- A strong work ethic and sense of commitment
- Responsible for end-to-end recruitment cycle i.e., sourcing qualified candidates to deploying selected candidates with the clients.
- Understanding & analyzing the requirement of the position based on the client’s specifications.
- Experience in End-to-end recruitment: Sourcing to onboarding candidates.
- Sourcing of candidates via internet postings, networking, headhunting, and internal Database.
- Ability to source resumes quickly and work on multiple positions simultaneously Thorough screening applications for identifying quality candidates.
- Sound knowledge on Sourcing Candidates thru REDEX, Monster & various Job Sites.
- Excellent knowledge in Boolean function & usage of various job board databases.
- Foster long-term relationships with candidates and clients
- Draft job descriptions push them through all talent acquisition channels and coordinate candidate sourcing with the same.
- Doing junior to middle-level hiring for all verticals.
- Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met.
- Format resumes meeting client expectations.
- Telephonic Screening of the profiles checking for Technical Fitment, Behavioral Fitment, Stability, etc.
- Utilize your innovative and effective convincing and negotiation skills to impress and attract top talent.
- Follow up with candidates and clients and maintain records of progress.
- Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates.
- Keep up to date with new technological trends and products
- You need to be comfortable being an individual contributor and working in an ambiguous, chaotic, and fast-paced work environment.
- Effective negotiating skills Sourcing and attracting candidates by using databases, social media, etc
- Strong decision-making skills
- Experience in end-to-end recruitment Quick learner and a passion for bridging talent with opportunity
Job Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Telephonic Skills
- Interviewing & Negotiation skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent English Communication Written & Verbal, with very good E-Mail writing skills & etiquette.
- Professionalism
- Strong social aptitude and ability to build relationships
- Technical knowledge to be able to talk to job prospects and understand qualifications
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As a Talent Acquisition Manager, you will be sourcing potential candidates on niche platforms, and being involved in other talent acquisition roles.
- Executing a vision for talent acquisition that will support the company as they prepare to scale.
- Working with the leadership team and HR business partners and implementing talent acquisition strategy.
- Developing creative sourcing strategies to proactively build a robust pipeline of candidates.
- Partnering with key leadership to formalize, support and implement an employer branding strategy across numerous channels.
- Organizing events to drive recruitment and brand awareness.
- Managing recruitment process flows (Requisition to offer ).
- Refining recruitment process as needed and documenting the same.
- Working closely with marketing team in outreach to the talent network.
- Working with functional team to meet their recruiting needs in terms ofnumber and quality of people.
- Proactively identifying and maintaining relationships with talent across various skill categories and levels of experience.
- Designing, implementing and refining process pertaining to talent on-boarding,
What you need to have:
- IC role; at least for initial few months.
- Experience of sourcing from multiple channels.
- The profile sits within the business function.
- Experience of niche/specific recruitment will be an added advantage.
- Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search).
- Hands-on experience with various interview formats (e.g. phone, Skype and structured).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience: 2 to 5 years
Annual CTC: Rupees 10,00,000 to 12,00,000
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