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Hiring & Execution
- Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle including workforce planning, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding.
- Deliver hiring across Technology, Product, Data Science, Risk, Credit, Analytics, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Corporate functions.
- Manage lateral, leadership, niche, and mission-critical hires in fast-paced, high-growth fintech environments.
- Drive and continuously improve time-to-hire, cost-to-hire, quality-of-hire, and hiring conversion metrics using data-backed insights.
- Independently own and close TA projects such as hiring sprints, business-critical ramp-ups, leadership closures, and new team setups.
Stakeholder Management
- Partner closely with Founders, CXOs, VPs, and Hiring Managers to understand talent needs and define scalable hiring strategies.
- Act as a trusted talent advisor, providing market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, and hiring feasibility analysis.
- Drive structured interview frameworks, hiring scorecards, and strong feedback discipline to improve hiring quality.
- Enable decision-making through data, dashboards, and hiring insights.
Sourcing, Talent Branding & Market Intelligence
- Build strong and sustainable pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, direct sourcing, talent communities, fintech networks, and ATS.
- Leverage data, automation, and AI tools to enhance sourcing efficiency and candidate outreach.
- Strengthen employer branding through superior candidate experience, storytelling, and consistent market presence.
- Identify and attract passive talent from fintechs, NBFCs, startups, banks, and technology companies.
Process, Data, Analytics & Governance
- Own and continuously optimize recruitment processes, SLAs, and hiring governance frameworks.
- Build and maintain real-time hiring dashboards, funnel analytics, and reports to track performance and predict outcomes.
- Actively experiment with AI-driven sourcing, screening, automation, and workflow optimization to scale hiring efficiently.
- Ensure compliance with labor laws, background verification, data privacy, and internal hiring policies.
- Collaborate closely with HR Ops, Finance, and Leadership to ensure smooth closures, onboarding, and workforce planning.
Team, Vendor & Project Management
- Mentor and guide junior recruiters (if required) and drive high performance within the TA team.
- Manage and evaluate external recruitment partners, consultants, and vendors to ensure cost efficiency and quality delivery.
- Lead and execute strategic TA initiatives such as:
- Hiring automation projects
- Employer branding initiatives
- Diversity hiring programs
- Campus / lateral hiring drives
- Process digitization and ATS optimization
Skills & Competencies
Must-Have
- Strong experience in fintech, NBFC, lending, startups, or high-growth internet companies.
- Proven expertise in both tech and non-tech hiring.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Hands-on experience with ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing tools, and hiring analytics.
- Highly data-driven mindset with ability to track, analyze, and improve hiring metrics.
- AI-curious and automation-oriented mindset with eagerness to adopt and implement new hiring technologies.
Good-to-Have
- Exposure to bulk hiring, leadership hiring, and niche role closures.
- Understanding of fintech regulations, credit, risk, analytics, and product-led organizations.
- Experience scaling teams from early-stage to growth-stage environments.
- Experience running end-to-end TA projects independently and driving measurable outcomes.
Qualifications
- MBA in HR from a premium institute.
- 26 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition.
- Prior experience as Senior Recruiter / Lead / Associate Manager preferred.
