Talent Acquisition Specialist

Job Description

The incumbent is responsible for driving end-to-end hiring strategy, ensuring a strong talent pipeline across business units, and delivering a superior candidate and stakeholder experience. This role partners closely with business leaders, HR teams, and external partners to fulfil organizational talent needs efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

· Partner with business heads to understand manpower needs, skills gaps, and future workforce requirements.

· Develop and execute the annual hiring plan aligned with business priorities.

· Own end-to-end hiring across all levels – junior, mid, senior, and niche roles.

· Provide weekly dashboards, hiring status, and leadership insights.

· Manage sourcing, screening, interviews, assessments, salary negotiation, and offer closure.

· Maintain strong candidate pipelines using multiple channels (job portals, social media, referrals, agencies, direct networking).

· Lead campus hiring strategy across engineering & MBA institutes.

· Build and maintain campus relationships.

· Implement best practices in assessments, interviewing, and candidate evaluation.

· Ensure compliance with HR policies, budgeting, and documentation.

Required Skills & Experience

8–12 years of progressive experience in talent acquisition.

Strong experience in hiring for diverse functions (Tech/Non-Tech/Corporate/R&D).

Demonstrated capability in campus hiring and employer branding.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.

Education

MBA/PGDM in HR or related field preferred.

Sourcing Guidelines

Must-Haves

8–12 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition

• Experience in the Manufacturing domain

• Proven track record in hiring for diverse functions (Tech, Non-Tech, Corporate, R&D)

• Hands-on experience in campus hiring and employer branding initiatives

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills

• Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

• Education: MBA/PGDM in HR or a related field preferred

Strong Recruitment / Talent Acquisition focused-profile

Mandatory (Availability) - Must be available immediately, to join from client office location in Indiranagar, Bengaluru (5 Days WFO)

Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have strong experience in hiring for Product, Tech and Design roles.

Mandatory (Company) - Small Recruitment Agency (Not more than 50 Employees) OR Small / Early-stage Startup

Preferred

Preferred (Company) - Early-stage Tech Startup

Key Responsibilities

Interview Panel Sourcing: Identify and connect with senior IT professionals to onboard them as freelance interview panelists on our platform.

Candidate Engagement: Reach out to experienced IT professionals, explain the benefits of joining Incruiter, and convince them to register as interviewers.

Boolean Search & Sourcing: Utilize Boolean search techniques and sourcing tools like Naukri, LinkedIn, and other job portals to find suitable panelists.

Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationships with senior IT professionals to ensure long-term engagement with our platform.

Client JD Alignment: Understand various job descriptions from different clients to ensure the right panelists are onboarded for relevant technical assessments.

TAT Adherence: Ensure quick turnaround time for onboarding interview panelists based on business requirements.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Freshers with prior 3-6 months of internship experience in IT Recruitment.

Strong understanding of IT technologies and job roles.

Proficiency in sourcing tools like Naukri, LinkedIn, and Boolean search.

Excellent follow-up skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a hands-on, fast-paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity.

Excellent communication and persuasion skills to onboard senior IT professionals.

Ability to multitask and meet onboarding targets within the defined timelines.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and update job descriptions

• Source potential candidates from various online channels (e.g. social media and other platforms like Naukri, Indeed, Shine, etc)

• Craft recruiting emails to attract passive candidates
• Screen incoming resumes and application forms

• Conduct a telephonic interview of candidates

• Advertise job openings on the company’s careers page, social media, job boards, etc

• Provide shortlists of qualified candidates to the manager.

Requirements and skills

• Proven work experience as an HR Recruiter or similar role
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases

• Experience with sourcing techniques

• Solid verbal and written communication skills

What you need to have:

We’re looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work. Some of the skills and experience we look for includes:

• Builds and maintains relationship with talent pool in regional markets
• Opens and manages requisitions throughout recruiting lifecycle
• Manages candidate database, including resumes and applications
• Assesses recruiting service request and confirms talent needs with Business and Hiring Manager
• Identifies recruiting channels and target talent pools and conducts search for candidates
• Captures applicant information into recruiting database, maintaining database for future reference
• Prepares and shares candidate communications throughout recruiting lifecycle
• Provides candidate logistics support during hiring process, including coordination of candidate interviews and screening
• Screens candidates, including review of application and resume along with conducting assessments and interviews in partnership with Hiring Manager
• Serves as a point of escalation for inquiries and redirects the resolution of complex or unusual talent acquisition inquiries to the Talent Acquisition COE
• Provides inputs on recruiting operations and execution improvements to Talent Acquisition Lead and Talent Acquisition COE

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.