Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role Summary:

Raise is built on this core philosophy - we will bring exceptionally great products, awesome user experience and best in class customer service to our users. We have started with our first step by launching an Investment & Trading platform – Dhan (www.dhan.co) in November 2021.

In this role, you'll work closely with the Talent Acquisition team and business teams to support hiring and help build strong teams for our growth.

This is a 6 to 8 month internship role. Candidates who demonstrate strong performance, ownership, and consistency during the internship will have a high possibility of receiving a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) to join the HR team full-time.

Role Summary:

Raise is built on this core philosophy - we will bring exceptionally great products, awesome user experience and best in class customer service to our users. We have started with our first step by launching Investment & Trading platform – Dhan (www.dhan.co)

Today, Dhan stands among India's Top 10 stock brokers and continues to be one of the fastest-growing platforms in the industry. Backed by a passionate team of builders, believers, designers, and problem-solvers, Raise is creating a trusted ecosystem of financial products that empower millions of users to make smarter financial decisions. We are driven by innovation, customer obsession, and a relentless focus on crafting experiences that users love.

At Raise, we're looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist who is extremely passionate about hiring and connecting with great talent. You will drive our hiring efforts across all functions and levels—from technical to business, junior to leadership roles. This role goes beyond filling positions—it's about partnering with leadership, understanding our culture and business priorities, and bringing in the right talent to power Raise's growth journey.

Expected Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for roles across departments and entities.
• Think and apply hiring strategies using a combination of sources, networks, to attract good quality talent.
• Drive a rigorous talent evaluation process to ensure the right fit for the role and organisation.
• Build a strong talent pipeline for ongoing and future roles by tracking good talent and networking.
• Conduct Hiring Analytics on a timely basis such as time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and offer-to-join ratios, making data-informed decisions to optimise processes.
• Promote Raise as a great brand to work for, showcasing our culture, values, and employee value proposition through candidate interactions and branding efforts.

Expected Skills:

• 2 to 6 years of end-to-end recruitment experience, with at least 3 years in a strategic talent acquisition role managing cross-functional hiring.
• Prior experience in fast-paced environments such as FinTech, startups, media, hospitality, retail, or high-growth tech companies is highly desirable.
• Expertise in using and optimising ATS platforms.
• Strong understanding of various functional roles and hiring nuances across tech and non-tech domains.
• Skilled in offer pitches, candidate engagement, and ensuring good hiring experiences.
• Post Graduation in HR is mandatory.
• Good interpersonal with a results-driven approach
• Data driven approach i.e use data to track hiring trends, analytics, ehat works , what doesn't for the said role. etc

Raise HQ is at Goregaon West, Mumbai.

We are a Great Place to Work!

Our culture fosters growth, collaboration, and fulfilment. It's a workplace where every individual is valued, innovation thrives, success is shared, where passion meets purpose and every day is an opportunity to make a difference.

Join us in building Raise!

Our People & Culture

People and culture are the most important aspects of our business.

We are looking for team members just like us, in simple words - good people to work with and demonstrate following personality traits:

Be super obsessed about ensuring customer satisfaction.

(We are here because of our customers, and will be here only if we serve our customers)

We have a single opportunity to serve.

(Our customers will give us one opportunity to serve - we can't let them down. Be it product, uptimes, customer service or any interaction we have to deliver a wow experience.)

Respect your work, your team, your co-workers and our customers.

(The only way to get respect is to give it first)

Speed is all that matters. Ship right and ship faster.

(You either help the team move ahead fast, or you slow it down. We prefer the first.)

Humility & politeness over arrogance & over-confidence.

(If you are the smartest one in the room, bring up others to speed. We are here to serve our customers, not to prove a point.)

Quality over quantity.

(It is fine if you pick up a few things to do, but do them exceedingly well.)

Make your hands dirty irrespective of who you are.

(Our CEO & COO respond to customers every day. Our CTO codes every day. This is us.)

Talent and Competency over Credentials.

(Skills are more important than Credentials, we learned it all the hard way with life & experiences.)

Entrepreneurial, ownership driven and disciplined.

(We trust you to help us gain and retain the trust of our customers and our stakeholders)

Less words, more action.

(Believe in something show it by doing things. Not just by talking about it)

Flat hierarchy with open culture & conversations.

(You are among all of us, and we all are with you)

Passionate about the business you are a part of.

(Do it because you are passionate about it, not because it's your job.)

Raise is an equal opportunity employer.

(We celebrate diversity and inclusion.)

About Raise Financial Services

At Raise, we are building technology-led consumer products & infrastructure services to serve Indians with Financial Services across financing, insurance, investing, payments and wealth.

We are building for the financially aware & financially literate users, largely focusing on the top 25 Mn+ tax paying residents in metros, urban cities & towns in India. Raise will offer consumer products & services that cater to these users, and will offer the same technology & infrastructure to partners in the startup ecosystem willing to take the experience to everyone in India.

We will launch a series of consumer products, expect the first ones to be available in 2021. Our focus is on 3 core aspects - build great products, deliver awesome experiences and provide exceptional customer services to our users.

Connect with us: www.raiseholding.co

Learn more about our Investing Platform – www.dhan.co