About the Role
Seeking a player-coach for talent acquisition and HR to lead a small team while remaining hands-on in recruiting. This role is approximately 80% talent acquisition, focusing on end-to-end hiring across India and the US, and 20% HR, providing mentorship and guidance on process, policy, and people-side scaling without owning daily HR execution. The ideal candidate will partner with co-founders and hiring managers, drive candidate experience, and help shape HR frameworks for a hyper-growth B2B AI/SaaS company.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and run sourcing strategy for open roles, ensuring full pipelines for hiring managers.
- Partner with co-founders and hiring managers to sharpen JDs, run intake calls, and ensure fast, clear candidate feedback.
- Manage a fast-moving and positive candidate screening and interview process from outreach to offer.
- Coordinate and manage external recruiting agencies, holding them accountable for quality and turnaround.
- Track pipeline health, time-to-fill, and source effectiveness, proactively flagging bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with Ops/Admin teammates for smooth new hire onboarding.
- Mentor the HR team on judgment calls, escalations, and handling new situations.
- Guide the HR team on performance frameworks, policy, and process design without owning execution.
- Connect TA and HR by ensuring market insights (comp benchmarks, candidate expectations, attrition signals) inform HR framework development.
- Manage other TA and HR team members and their outcomes.
Qualifications
- 9-12 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with genuine curiosity or prior exposure to HR/HRBP work.
- Comfortable owning full-cycle recruiting independently (sourcing through offer) without heavy hand-holding.
- Experience managing a team of 2 or more people in TA/HR.
- Startup experience preferred, comfortable with ambiguity and building processes from scratch.
- Prior experience at a high-growth Series A–D B2B AI/SaaS company, scaling TA during a growth phase.
- Experience seeing headcount scale from 80 employees to 300+.
- Direct, plain communicator with candidates, hiring managers, agencies, and the HR team.
- Experience hiring for US roles from India is a strong plus.
Required Skills
Talent Acquisition | Full-cycle Recruiting | Sourcing Strategy | Pipeline Management | Candidate Experience | Agency Management | Recruiting Metrics | HR Mentoring | HR Policy Design | Performance Frameworks | Startup Environment | Team Leadership | B2B AI/SaaS Hiring | US Hiring | Communication
