Key Highlights:
Position: Manager, Recruitment
Location: Gurgaon, in-office
Experience Required: 5-8 years
Working Days: 6 days a week
About Airblack
Airblack is India's largest alternate skilling platform, helping people become microentrepreneurs and creators. Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities.
We currently operate in sectors such as beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses, impacting over 1M learners every month. Our flagship school in the beauty space is India's #1 Beauty Academy brand, with an alumni base of over 40,000 entrepreneurs in 300+ cities in India. Our apps consistently rank in the top 10 education apps in India with 5M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month.
Airblack has raised over $11 million from marquee investors such as Elevation Capital, Info Edge Ventures, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund and Better Capital, and leading angels such as Vidit (Meesho), Kunal (CRED), Deepinder (Zomato), Harshit & Shashank (Razorpay) and so on.
Who are we looking for
We are looking for a Manager, Recruitment to lead and scale our recruitment funnel. This is a critical leadership role where you'll be responsible for building high-performing teams that drive our growth across multiple business lines. You will own the recruitment strategy and execution in a fast-paced, high-volume hiring environment.
What would you be doing
- Sales Hiring: Own and scale the end-to-end BD recruitment funnel managing 100+ hires per quarter across multiple cities. Build and optimize recruitment processes to improve funnel conversion rates and reduce time-to-hire.
- Campus Recruitment: Design and execute campus hiring strategies across Tier 2, and 3 colleges. Build relationships with placement cells, conduct campus drives at scale, and establish Airblack as an employer of choice.
- Leadership & Senior Hiring: Lead recruitment for mid to senior roles across functions and leadership positions. Partner with founders to identify, assess, and close high-impact talent through executive search and strategic networking.
- Vendor & Agency Management: Identify and manage relationships with external recruitment agencies. Negotiate contracts, set SLAs, monitor vendor performance, and optimize recruitment budgets for cost efficiency.
- Strategic Operations & Team Leadership: Partner with leadership on workforce planning and build talent pipelines. Design assessment framework and track recruitment analytics. Lead and mentor a team of recruiters while collaborating across teams
What makes you a suitable candidate
- 5-8 years of proven recruitment experience with a track record of mass hiring, preferably in EdTech or high-growth startups
- Strong expertise in campus recruitment, leadership hiring, and managing external recruitment agencies with demonstrated success in building scalable hiring processes
- Data-driven approach to recruitment with experience in ATS systems, recruitment analytics, and optimizing key metrics like time-to-hire and cost-per-hire
- Excellent stakeholder management and team leadership skills with the ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and drive results with high ownership
Why should you join Airblack
- Skilling with a difference: We are one of the very few education companies in India that have been able to do all the following things together: deliver outcomes, stay lean (under 50 people), raise funds in a down market from top investors, have an infinite runway, and lead a completely new whitespace. Get the opportunity to be the face of a new era in the education & skilling sector in a high-skin-in-the-game leadership role
- Experimentation & Build: We have a culture of rapid experimentation, freedom to fail & iterate, and owning scale-up through process building
- Thriving Market Opportunity: We are building in a whitespace with massive opportunity & headstart - India has 15 million people entering the workforce every year and less than half a million jobs. Your impact will help create a dent in India's future
- Work with a stellar team: Great missions require great people - and we are fortunate to have some of the smartest and nicest people supporting us in our journey. Our team comprises ex-entrepreneurs, VCs, and operators from places such as Goldman Sachs, Paytm, Oyo, Bain & Co., BCG, Urban Company, top IITs and so on
