Talent Acquisition & Operations Specialist 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 & Operations Specialist based in India.

As the first dedicated Talent Acquisition & Operations Specialist, you will play a key role in building and shaping the recruitment and people operations functions of a growing international fintech business. You will dedicate approximately 70% of your time to managing full-cycle recruitment across APAC and the Middle East, with the remaining 30% focused on people operations and HR administration. Working closely with founders, senior leaders, and hiring managers, you will drive strategic hiring initiatives while ensuring a seamless employee experience. From establishing recruitment processes and building talent pipelines to managing onboarding and supporting a distributed workforce, you will have significant ownership and autonomy. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on professional who enjoys building processes from the ground up. You will work in a fast-paced, fully remote, multicultural environment, with direct exposure to multiple international markets and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on organizational growth.

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle: Oversee every stage of hiring, from understanding hiring needs and developing job descriptions to sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding handovers.
• Drive international recruitment: Lead hiring initiatives across APAC and the Middle East, adapting recruitment strategies to local talent markets, compensation expectations, notice periods, and work-permit requirements.
• Recruit across diverse functions: Source and attract talent for fintech-related positions, including product, engineering, risk, compliance, payments, and operations, as well as marketing, performance marketing, affiliate, partnerships, media buying, SEO, and CRM roles.
• Build proactive talent pipelines: Identify and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, referrals, industry communities, job boards, and targeted headhunting.
• Establish recruitment processes: Develop and implement structured hiring practices, including job descriptions, interview frameworks, evaluation scorecards, and applicant tracking systems (ATS).
• Advise hiring managers: Provide insights into talent availability, market salary benchmarks, recruitment timelines, and hiring strategies while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
• Manage recruitment performance: Monitor and report key hiring metrics, including time-to-hire, sourcing effectiveness, and offer acceptance rates. Strengthen employer branding and coordinate external recruitment agencies when necessary.
• Oversee employee lifecycle administration: Manage onboarding and offboarding processes, including employment documentation, contracts, equipment, system access, and first-week arrangements.
• Maintain HR systems and records: Ensure employee information, HR documentation, and records are accurate, organized, and compliant within the HR information system (HRIS).
• Coordinate payroll and compliance activities: Work closely with finance teams and external Employer of Record (EOR) or payroll providers to manage monthly payroll inputs, employee changes, new joiners, and departures across multiple countries.
• Support employee relations and engagement: Handle day-to-day HR queries related to leave, benefits, policies, and documentation, while coordinating background checks, reference checks, probation reviews, performance cycles, and engagement initiatives.
• Develop people operations infrastructure: Draft, update, and implement HR policies and employee handbook documentation tailored to a remote, multi-country workforce.
• Optimize HR operations: Manage recruitment and HR vendors, tools, and subscriptions, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive administrative tasks and improve operational efficiency.

• 3–5 years of hands-on experience managing full-cycle talent acquisition, ideally within startups or high-growth organizations.
• Proven experience working independently as a solo recruiter or within a small recruitment team, with the ability to build hiring processes from the ground up.
• Demonstrated recruitment experience within the fintech sector, ideally covering areas such as payments, product, engineering, risk, compliance, and operations.
• Experience recruiting for marketing and affiliate-focused businesses, including performance marketing, affiliate management, partnership management, and related commercial positions.
• Practical experience managing recruitment across APAC and the Middle East, with a solid understanding of regional talent markets, salary expectations, and hiring practices.
• Working knowledge of HR and people operations, including employee onboarding and offboarding, HR documentation, HRIS administration, and payroll coordination.
• Strong sourcing and headhunting capabilities, particularly when identifying and engaging passive candidates for specialized or hard-to-fill positions.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple recruitment assignments and administrative responsibilities simultaneously.
• A proactive, independent, and solutions-oriented mindset, combined with strong ownership, prioritization, and adaptability in a fully remote environment.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the confidence to collaborate effectively with founders, senior leaders, and stakeholders across different markets.
• Hands-on familiarity with at least one applicant tracking system (ATS), one HR information system (HRIS), and LinkedIn Recruiter.

Nice to have:

• Experience establishing recruitment or people operations functions, ATS platforms, or HRIS solutions from scratch.
• Familiarity with payments, lending, financial technology, or other regulated industries.
• Experience collaborating with Employer of Record (EOR) providers and coordinating multi-country payroll operations.
• Exposure to employer branding, recruitment marketing, and talent attraction initiatives.
• Experience creating recruitment dashboards, analyzing hiring data, and preparing performance reports.
• Additional language skills relevant to APAC or Middle Eastern markets, such as Arabic, Bahasa, Thai, or Vietnamese.

• Fully remote working arrangement, with the flexibility to work from anywhere in India.
• Competitive salary package.
• Significant ownership and autonomy to build and develop recruitment and people operations functions from the ground up.
• Opportunity to work across multiple international markets throughout APAC and the Middle East.
• Direct collaboration with founders and senior leadership, enabling fast decision-making and minimal bureaucracy.
• Exposure to a dynamic, international fintech environment with opportunities to influence business growth and organizational development.