Manager US Leadership Hiring

Position: Manager – Leadership Hiring

Location: Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune (Remote)

Experience: 10 – 15 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reporting Line: Chief People Officer

Role: Individual Contributor

About Us:

Narwal is an AI-powered, data-led, outcome-focused solutions provider helping global enterprises accelerate transformation across AI, Data, and Quality Engineering. With operations across five countries and a globally distributed team, Narwal partners with Fortune 500 and large enterprises deliver measurable business outcomes at a scale. Its approach combines deep engineering expertise with proprietary AI-led accelerators, frameworks, and reusable IP to drive faster delivery, higher quality, and reduced risk across complex enterprise environments.

Recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000, in the Midwest region and a Great Place to Work, Narwal is redefining how services are delivered, by moving beyond effort-based models toward scalable, AI-powered execution that helps clients innovate with speed and confidence.

Why Narwal?

Narwal is on a significant growth and transformation journey as it scales its global AI, Data, and Quality Engineering business.

This role offers a unique opportunity to strengthen Narwal’s leadership hiring capability during a high-growth phase while helping shape a more scalable, business-aligned, and capability-driven recruitment model.

As Narwal continues to evolve, the Manager – Leadership Hiring will play a critical role in strengthening leadership pipelines, candidate quality, stakeholder partnership, and hiring predictability across the organization.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong leadership hiring experience with operational rigor, strong business partnership capability, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced IT Services environment.

Role Overview:

We are looking for someone who operates beyond transactional recruitment — a professional who can understand the business, map the market, identify the right leadership talent, engage senior executives, influence stakeholders, and take a search through to successful closure.

If you have a strong executive network, a research-led approach to search, and a proven track record of delivering complex leadership mandates across markets, we would like to hear from you.

What You’ll Own

• Lead searches across Sales/Growth, Client Partner, Delivery, Practice, AI, Data, Quality Engineering, and other business leadership roles.
• Manage searches from mandate definition and market mapping through sourcing, executive engagement, assessment, negotiation, offer closure, and onboarding.
• Build targeted search strategies and identify leadership talent primarily across the US, with additional global mandates as required.
• Conduct executive market intelligence, competitor benchmarking, talent mapping, and organizational research to identify relevant leadership talent and provide actionable hiring insights.
• Develop and maintain a strong network of senior executives, industry leaders, passive candidates, and high-potential leadership talent.
• Partner with CXOs, Business Heads, HR leaders, and senior hiring stakeholders to understand business context, leadership requirements, and success profiles.
• Translate business requirements into target-company lists, talent pools, search strategies, and calibrated candidate profiles.
• Own candidate engagement strategies for highly sought-after and passive executives, ensuring a differentiated executive candidate experience.
• Lead senior-level compensation discussions, negotiations, stakeholder alignment, and offer closure.
• Build proactive leadership pipelines through market intelligence, referrals, internal calibration, and external talent research.
• Provide stakeholders with regular search intelligence, talent availability, competitive insights, and pipeline updates.

What We’re Looking For

• 10–15 years of Talent Acquisition / Executive Search experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on experience in Leadership Hiring.
• Proven experience in Leadership Hiring, Executive Search, or Senior-Level Recruitment.
• Strong exposure to US and global leadership hiring.
• Strong experience hiring leadership talent for IT Services, Digital Engineering, Technology, or Consulting organizations. Executive Search firm experience with significant technology services exposure is also relevant.
• Strong understanding of senior talent markets across technology, sales, consulting, delivery, and business leadership.
• Exceptional capability in executive sourcing, talent mapping, market intelligence, and passive candidate engagement.
• Strong consultative and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work directly with senior business leaders.
• Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation, and relationship-building capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple confidential, complex, and high-priority executive searches independently.
• Demonstrated track record of independently closing complex senior and leadership mandates, including passive candidates, within agreed timelines.

Narwal is an equal opportunity employer. We celebratediversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. For more information please visit: https://narwal.ai/