Recruitment Lead

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Recruitment Lead to drive our talent acquisition efforts and lead a high-performing team of recruiters. You will be responsible for managing end-to-end recruitment activities for key positions, ensuring alignment with business goals, and delivering high-quality candidate experience. The ideal candidate is both a strategic thinker and hands-on practitioner who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Talent Acquisition Head to ensure hiring strategies align with evolving business goals
• Take full ownership of the recruitment lifecycle for assigned roles—including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates—ensuring timely and high-quality hiring outcomes
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill positions, leveraging passive candidate engagement, advanced Boolean search techniques, and talent mapping
• Liaise with placement agencies and negotiate terms to assist with recruitment needs
• Represent the company at job fairs, build partnerships with HR professionals, colleges, and placement cells, and conduct campus hiring drives and interviews in local colleges/universities as needed
• Conduct detailed kick-off meetings and debrief sessions with hiring managers to ensure alignment on role requirements, expectations, and candidate feedback, and collaborate with them to refine job descriptions, candidate profiles, and selection criteria
• Lead, mentor, and support a small to medium-sized team of recruiters to deliver hiring outcomes effectively and efficiently
• Assist in defining and refining internal processes and documentation related to the recruitment lifecycle, and continuously evaluate and improve recruitment processes, tools, and best practices
• Collaborate with the HR team and PR/Marketing to align employer branding efforts with recruitment messaging and candidate experience
• Partner with cross-functional teams (HR, L&D, Department Heads) to ensure smooth onboarding and talent integration
• Establish connections and promote opportunities to prospective candidates while representing company culture and values
• Track, analyze, and present recruitment metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline health), identify trends or bottlenecks, and suggest data-driven solutions to improve performance
• Maintain up-to-date records in the ATS and ensure accurate candidate pipeline reporting, while ensuring the recruitment process is efficient and tracking of candidate status is timely and accurate
• Foster a positive candidate experience and uphold employer branding in all hiring activities
• Stay informed about market trends and share relevant insights with the team

The ideal candidate should have the following skills and experience:

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in full-cycle recruitment for a variety of roles in a technology or services-based environment
• Experience in sourcing techniques, recruiting tools, and social media platforms
• Experience in working with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and HR databases
• Experience in creating recruitment reports and analyzing hiring metrics
• Familiarity with employment laws and hiring compliance best practices

Personal Skills:

• Ability to deal with people and understand various personality types, relate, encourage, and motivate individuals
• Ability to recognize how an individual may fit within a team and organizational culture
• Ability to identify a person's talents and match them to suitable roles
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to effectively negotiate, reach agreements, and deal with conflict productively
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to manage time, multiple projects, and competing deadlines
• Strong work ethic, personal accountability, and dependability
• Ability to lead by example and foster a collaborative team environment
• Professional demeanor, with the ability to influence and build trust with stakeholders
• Positive, approachable, and solution-oriented mindset

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
• 7+ years of relevant recruitment experience, preferably in a fast-paced or high-growth environment