Talent Acquisition Manager in India at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Talent Acquisition Manager based in India.

This is a strategic and hands-on leadership opportunity to build and scale a modern Talent Acquisition function within a fast-growing technology and product environment. You will shape hiring strategy, workforce planning, sourcing, assessment, and recruitment operations across highly specialized technical and business functions. The role combines executive-level stakeholder partnership with direct ownership of critical hiring activities. You will build scalable processes, develop talent intelligence, and establish data-driven mechanisms that improve hiring speed, quality, and predictability. You will also lead and develop a high-performing recruitment team while building pipelines for niche and business-critical capabilities. This role is ideal for an experienced TA leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-accountability environments and wants to make recruitment a strategic business function.

• Develop and execute a company-wide Talent Acquisition strategy aligned with business objectives, organizational growth, capability requirements, and future workforce planning.

• Translate growth plans into structured hiring roadmaps, quarterly recruitment plans, priorities, and execution mechanisms.

• Partner closely with founders, executives, business leaders, and hiring managers as a strategic talent advisor.

• Lead recruitment across specialized technology and business functions, including AI/ML, autonomous systems, robotics, embedded engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, data, product, engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, finance, HR, and operations.

• Establish scalable recruitment frameworks, interview processes, hiring SLAs, dashboards, documentation, and governance mechanisms.

• Standardize job descriptions, interview rubrics, evaluation forms, decision-making processes, and candidate assessment practices.

• Partner with business teams to anticipate future capability requirements and build proactive pipelines for niche, critical, and high-impact positions.

• Conduct talent market research covering candidate availability, competitor talent pools, compensation trends, sourcing channels, and recruitment strategies.

• Produce talent intelligence and market-mapping insights to support leadership workforce decisions.

• Identify and resolve hiring bottlenecks related to sourcing, interview readiness, panel capacity, decision-making, compensation alignment, offer conversion, notice periods, and internal processes.

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing Talent Acquisition team, establishing clear ownership, specialization, KPIs, and accountability.

• Use recruitment analytics and hiring dashboards to improve time-to-hire, quality-of-hire, source effectiveness, cost-of-hire, offer-to-join ratios, hiring-manager experience, and SLA adherence.

• Continuously improve recruitment processes to create a predictable, scalable, well-documented, and audit-ready hiring operation.

• 7–12 years of experience in Talent Acquisition or recruitment, including at least 3 years in a leadership or team-management capacity.

• Proven experience scaling recruitment functions within high-growth technology, product, engineering, or similarly complex organizations.

• Strong technical recruiting expertise across areas such as AI/ML, robotics, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and product.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement recruitment frameworks, interview processes, hiring workflows, and scalable Talent Acquisition operations.

• Strong strategic sourcing and strategic hiring capabilities, with experience building talent pipelines for specialized and difficult-to-fill positions.

• Experience partnering with senior leadership, founders, executives, and hiring managers to translate business requirements into effective hiring strategies.

• Strong understanding of workforce planning, talent intelligence, market mapping, compensation trends, and recruitment analytics.

• Hands-on experience with ATS platforms, hiring dashboards, recruitment metrics, and data-driven decision-making.

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a strong focus on execution and measurable outcomes.

• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous, and high-accountability environments.

• Strong leadership and team-building skills, with the ability to mentor recruiters and establish a culture of ownership, speed, quality, and continuous improvement.

• A data-driven mindset and ability to use recruitment insights to improve processes and business outcomes.

• Full-time, remote position based in India.

• Annual compensation range of 15,00,000–18,00,000, depending on experience and skills.

• Opportunity to shape and lead the Talent Acquisition function within a fast-growing technology and product organization.

• Significant strategic exposure to senior leadership and business decision-makers.

• Opportunity to recruit across highly specialized technology, engineering, AI, robotics, cybersecurity, and business functions.

• Ownership of hiring strategy, workforce planning, talent intelligence, recruitment operations, and team development.

• Opportunity to build scalable recruitment processes and establish data-driven hiring practices from the ground up.

• Remote working environment with autonomy and flexibility.

• Opportunity to build and lead a high-performing Talent Acquisition team and influence organizational growth.