Talent Acquisition Lead - Founders Associate

Location: Remote at first but we will be setting up an office in Hyderabad and Dubai, it will be hybrid between these offices.

Compensation: INR 60,000150,000 base + high performance based (commissions + founding ESOPs)

Start: DecemberJanuary

About Whitecarrot

Whitecarrot is an AI-powered recruitment platform helping companies across the Middle East hire faster, smarter, and with less friction. We're building a new model where software, AI sourcing, and human expertise work together..

To scale this, we're hiring a Talent Acquisition Lead - Founders Associate who will work directly with the founder, own customer outcomes, improve internal hiring, and help shape how our recruitment engine grows in 2025. This is not a basic Recruiter Role or a basic Customer Support role. This is a crucial position, multi-hat, foundational role for someone who wants to build, operate, and grow fast into leadership.

The Role

As our first Talent Acquisition Lead - Founders Associate, you will be handeling:

• Customer Success (Onboarding, Training and customer support) for clients who use our ATS
• Partner / Trainer to the founder in building the Talent Partner ecosystem (A marketplace where our ATS customers can find and hire recruiters)
• Evaluator of talent - helping founders hire our SDR, internal engineering and product roles, and future consultants
• Internal HR (mainly recruitment) for Whitecarrot during the first few months
• Occasionally, a fractional recruiter who can step in and help clients with shortlisting and role delivery
  
  

If you enjoy dealing with candidates but also other HR professionals, building teams and systems, improving processes, and directly impacting revenue and client outcomes - this is your next big move.

What You'll Do

• Own Client Success & Delivery
• Manage onboarding, training, and support for multiple customer accounts
• Make sure hiring managers, recruiters, and TA leads get maximum value from the platform
• Identify bottlenecks, improve their hiring workflows, and elevate their team's recruitment standards
• Occasionally support clients with shortlisting or recruitment tasks to ensure they see results fast
• Build Internal HR Foundations
  
  

For the first 36 months, you will also act as Whitecarrot's internal HR:

• Help hire and evaluate our SDR and other early team members
• Build interview structures, competency rubrics, and training materials
• Support the founder in running interviews, reviewing candidates, and onboarding new hires
• Create documentation, processes, and systems for future scale
• Help Build the Talent Partner Ecosystem
  
  

You'll Work Closely With The Founder To

• Define how our Talent Partners operate
• Build playbooks, workflows, and service models
• Experiment with new recruiting approaches
• Provide product feedback that shapes how our software evolves
• Build the early blueprint for a scalable recruiting engine
  
  

This is the engine that will help us expand revenue in 2026, and your role is central to proving it.

• Become a Core Operator in the Company
• Manage customer accounts
• Support hiring and build the team out
• Train others
• Be the person who keeps the bar high and ensures people deliver
• Help the founder stay focused by taking ownership of execution
  
  

Who You Are

We are looking for someone we can trust, respect, and grow with.

You Should Be

• Strong in recruitment someone I can respect for their sourcing, evaluation, and shortlisting quality
• Excellent at reading mindset, attitude, soft skills, ownership, and cultural fit
• Comfortable managing multiple clients and multiple moving parts
• Process-driven, structured, and proactive
• Hands-on but senior enough to think independently
• Someone who thrives in early-stage environments where not everything is defined
• Curious, ambitious, and excited to build a new recruitment model in the region
• Someone who sees the founder as an innovator and wants to grow alongside the company
  
  

Bonus

• Experience at an agency or RPO
• Helped set up recruitment teams in the past
• Worked with GCC clients
• Experience supporting hiring managers directly
• Comfortable giving product feedback and testing workflows
  
  

Why This Role Matters

This hire is directly tied to Whitecarrot's scale.

You Will

• Become a core pillar of the company
• Free up the founder's bandwidth so he can focus on growth, sales, and product
• Elevate the experience of every customer using our platform
• Build the systems and processes that future team members will use
• Help prove and scale our sales model (ATS + Talent Partner ecosystem)
• Grow into a leadership track as the team expands
  
  

If you do well here, you can grow into Head of Recruitment Operations, Head of Talent Partners, or Head of Customer Success.

Compensation

• Base Salary:
• INR 60,000150,000 (wide range based on experience + only 50% during probation : negotiable)
• Variable: (performance based) - can be as much as base
• Commission
• Founding Team ESOP pool
• High upside for strong performers
• Potential for fast-track growth in 2025