Talent acquisition specialist

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.

Position: Senior HR & Admin Executive

Experience: 4–10 Years

Reporting To: Director

Employment Type: Full-Time

Office Timing: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Working Days: Monday to Saturday

CTC: As per Company Standards

Notice Period: Immediate Joiner/ 15 Days / 1 Month

Key Responsibilities

End-to-end IT recruitment.

Complete HR operations and employee lifecycle.

Attendance, leave, payroll coordination & HR documentation.

Employee engagement, performance management & policy implementation.

HR MIS reporting and administrative activities.

Desired Profile

HR Generalist experience with recruitment.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good knowledge of MS Excel, MS Office & HRMS.

Ability to work independently and take ownership.

Employment Terms

3-month probation.

Work from Office.

6-day working.

Performance-based growth opportunities.

Review Criteria:

Mandatory:

• Strong Technical Recruiter profile
• Must have 7+ years of experience in end to end recruitment (sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, joining etc)
• Must have 4+ years of experience in tech recruitment across different tech roles
• Strong grasp of technical concepts and ability to evaluate candidate fit for different technical roles
• Must have experience of analyzing data to improve hiring funnel, take data-driven hiring decisions
• Must be proficient in advanced sourcing techniques such as Boolean search, social media recruiting, and referral programs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills — should be articulate, confident, and well-spoken in interactions
• Product companies
• This is an IC role

Preferred:

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, or a related field

Role & Responsibilities:

The company’s Human Resources team plays a critical role in enabling business growth by building high-performing, mission-driven teams across geographies. As a people-first organization, we are focused on attracting, developing, and retaining top talent while creating an engaging and inclusive employee experience.

As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you will own end-to-end hiring for technology roles. You will partner closely with technology leaders to understand evolving workforce needs, build strong talent pipelines, and deliver high-quality hiring outcomes. This role requires a strong understanding of technology roles, proactive sourcing capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders while strengthening company’s employer brand.

What you will be expected to do:

• Own and manage the full recruitment lifecycle for technology and IT roles, from sourcing to offer management and onboarding support.
• Partner with technology leaders to understand hiring priorities, role requirements, and future talent needs.
• Design and execute effective sourcing strategies, leveraging online platforms, professional networks, referrals, and offline channels.
• Conduct initial screening and structured interviews using technical, behavioural, and competency-based assessment methods.
• Coordinate and manage interview processes, ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience.
• Review employment applications and background verification reports to ensure compliance with hiring standards.
• Act as a trusted advisor to candidates, providing clarity on role expectations, compensation, benefits, and work culture.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with active and passive talent pools.
• Track and report on key talent acquisition metrics, including time-to-hire, source effectiveness, and pipeline health.
• Stay abreast of market trends, emerging technologies, and competitor hiring practices to strengthen hiring strategies.
• Analyse and improve hiring and candidate experience through surveys, feedbacks, etc.

Ideal Candidate:

• 7 to 10 years of overall recruitment experience, with 4-7 years focused on technical/IT hiring.
• Good understanding of technology roles and the ability to assess and articulate technical requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and resume databases.
• Good analytical skills, including market mapping, talent research, and data-driven hiring decisions.
• Proficiency in advanced sourcing techniques such as Boolean search, social media recruiting, and referral programs.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence both candidates and hiring managers.
• High levels of ownership, self-motivation, and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, or a related field (preferred).

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture:

• Because we are a high-growth global enterprise, and because we prefer to promote successful employees internally, Greenlight Planet offers opportunities for flexible assignments and rapid international career progression as well as a competitive salary and a fun, supportive work environment. Our Creative team, headquartered in Nairobi, is an innovative team, operating in a stimulating atmosphere where our only measure is in the results we deliver.
• Greenlight Planet is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/Aids, disability or any other protected characteristic as established by law. If you are a committed, passionate professional who wants to become part of a compelling social venture that is redefining energy access in Asia and Africa for the underserved, we want to hear from you.

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• Design and update job descriptions
• Source potential candidates from various online channels (e.g. social media and professional platforms like StackOverflow and Behance)
• Craft recruiting emails to attract passive candidates
• Screen incoming resumes and application forms
• Interview candidates (via phone, video and in-person)
• Prepare and distribute assignments and numerical, language and logical reasoning tests
• Advertise job openings on company’s careers page, social media, job boards and internally
• Provide shortlists of qualified candidates to hiring managers
• Send job offer emails and answer queries about compensation and benefits
• Participate in job fairs and host in-house recruitment events
• Collaborate with managers to identify future hiring needs
• Act as a consultant to new hires and help them onboard

• Proven work experience as an HR Recruiter or similar role
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases
• Experience with sourcing techniques
• Understanding of referral programs
• Solid verbal and written communication skills

MUMBAI Location - Work From Office

Job brief

We are looking for a Recruitment Specialist to undertake all hiring activities, from advertising open roles to interviewing candidates and closing hires. Recruitment Specialist responsibilities include connecting with potential candidates online and offline, screening applications and supporting hiring managers. If you have experience evaluating candidates for roles of various fields and seniority levels, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you will be responsible for hiring qualified people while maintaining a positive candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and report on quarterly and annual hiring plans
• Create and publish job ads in various portals
• Network with potential hires through professional groups on social media and during events
• Collaborate with hiring managers to set qualification criteria for future employees
• Screen resumes and job applications
• Conduct initial phone screens to create shortlists of qualified candidates
• Interview candidates in-person for a wide range of roles (junior, senior and executive)
• Track hiring metrics including time-to-hire, time-to-fill and source of hire
• Design, distribute and measure the results of candidate experience surveys
• Train and advise hiring managers on interviewing techniques and assessment methods
• Host and participate in job fairs
• Follow up with candidates throughout the hiring process
• Maintain a database of potential candidates for future job openings

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Recruitment Specialist, Recruiter or similar role
• Hands-on experience with the largest job sites like Naukri or Indeed.
• Knowledge of sourcing techniques on social media and niche professional websites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Github and Stack Overflow
• Familiarity with applicant tracking systems
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Good written and verbal communications skills

• Full-Cycle Recruitment Process
• New Client References for the company

• Management- Manage full-cycle recruitment for a host of assigned searches.
• Gather Information- Understand the company and candidate requirements thoroughly.
• Process- Create and suggest the hiring process and strategies on the basis of the job description.
• Timeline- Mention the timelines for the end-to-end recruitment process to hire the right-fit candidate.
• Job Marketing- Advertise the job through different channels to get more attraction.
• Sourcing- Source candidates through different job portals and social media platforms.
• Initial Screening- Screen the candidates via phone call or video call.
• Interviews- Conduct rounds of interviews before shortlisting and submitting candidates to the clients.
• Assessments- Create and submit assessments based on each candidate’s interview.
• Co-ordination- Follow up with the client and candidates to schedule final interviews on a timely basis.
• Negotiation- Based on the client’s shortlisting, initiate negotiations with candidates and close the deal.
• Candidate Management- Once the deal is closed, follow up and maintain a good relationship with the candidates till the transition is complete.
• Client Management- keep in touch with the client for more vacancies.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
• Sound judgment to recognize and strive to meet client's hiring needs.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated, organized with leadership and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop talent by leveraging recruiting processes and tools and gathering role requirements and recommendations.
• Advocate for the candidate and create an excellent experience, supporting candidate assessment, evaluating candidate skills and client needs, and driving the interview and offer process.
• Influence hiring managers on their hiring strategy and provide status updates on open roles.
• Manage recruiting initiatives to meet established goals. Improve the candidate, new hire, hiring manager, and recruiter experience.
• Partner with key business, staffing, and hiring stakeholders to build solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives.

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in end-to-end recruitment in IT technologies.
• Take ownership individually and as a team member in supporting all open roles.
• Good understanding of software business, preferably Digital, Analytics and Technology hiring
• Energetic, ambitious professional with strong integrity
• Strong Communication, analytical/influential skills
• Good in talent mapping and networking with all levels of candidates
• Keen learner who can sail through ambiguity.
• Maintaining hands-on meticulous reports, draw trends and analysis, have great offer to joining ratio
• Quick joiners are preferred.

Location

Bangalore/Udupi

Seniority Level

5- 9 Year’s Experience, Mid-level in hierarchy