Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role: Talent Acquisition Specialist

Experience: 2–4 years

Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from requirement gathering to offer acceptance and joining.
• Source candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, referrals, communities, job portals, Boolean search and other channels.
• Proactively identify and engage passive candidates, especially for difficult-to-fill positions.
• Conduct initial resume screening and candidate assessments.
• Coordinate technical/functional interviews and ensure timely feedback from interviewers.
• Maintain a strong candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
• Track recruitment funnel and maintain accurate records and dashboards.
• Monitor and improve hiring metrics such as Time-to-Hire, Time-to-Fill, Interview-to-Selection Ratio, Offer Acceptance Rate and Source Effectiveness.
• Develop talent pools for future hiring requirements rather than hiring only against immediate openings.
• Support employer branding, referral programs and recruitment campaigns.
• Use AI and modern recruitment tools to improve sourcing, screening and recruitment efficiency.

Must Have:

• 2–4 years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment.
• Proven experience in end-to-end hiring.
• Strong hands-on sourcing experience.
• Experience hiring for non-technical roles is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to independently manage multiple open positions simultaneously.
• Strong candidate negotiation and offer-closing skills.
• Comfortable working directly with founder and senior leadership.
• Strong ownership, urgency and ability to work in a fast-changing startup environment.

Good to Have:

• Experience hiring product, design, sales and business roles.
• Experience with employer branding and social recruiting.
• Experience using AI recruiting/sourcing tools.
• Experience with compensation benchmarking and talent-market research.