Primary Title: HR Team Lead (Consultancy)
About The Opportunity
A fast-paced recruitment & HR consultancy serving technology, SaaS and enterprise clients across India. We deliver end-to-end talent acquisition, account-based hiring, and talent operations services to high-growth and midsize businesses. This remote role is focused on leading a small consultancy recruitment team, owning delivery, quality and client relationships.Role & Responsibilities
- Lead and coach a remote recruitment team of consultants—own day-to-day delivery, workload allocation and quality assurance for assigned client accounts.
- Manage end-to-end hiring operations: candidate sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management and onboarding handovers while ensuring SLA adherence.
- Drive proactive sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search and talent pipelining to fill technical and non-technical roles efficiently.
- Be primary client point-of-contact for hiring managers: set hiring priorities, communicate status, manage expectations and resolve escalations.
- Track and optimise recruitment KPIs—time-to-fill, submission-to-interview ratios, quality-of-hire and consultant productivity—through regular reporting and process improvements.
- Build repeatable playbooks: interview scorecards, screening templates, offer negotiation guidelines and ATS hygiene standards to increase scalability.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- Proven experience in a recruitment consultancy or RPO environment with hands-on delivery responsibility.
- Prior experience managing or leading a small recruitment team and driving measurable hiring outcomes.
- Strong operational familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and ensuring ATS hygiene and workflows.
- Demonstrable sourcing expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search and passive candidate engagement.
- Comfortable owning client communications, stakeholder management and escalation handling.
- Data-driven approach to recruitment: experience tracking recruitment metrics and producing regular status reports.
Preferred
- Experience with HRIS platforms (Workday, BambooHR or similar) or advanced spreadsheet-based reporting.
- Exposure to technical hiring for SaaS/engineering roles or hiring at scale across distributed locations.
- Prior experience in remote-first teams and familiarity with asynchronous collaboration tools (Slack, MS Teams, Zoom).
Benefits & Culture Highlights
- Fully remote role with flexible hours to support pan-India clients and candidate engagement.
- Growth-oriented environment with clear path to senior people-leader roles and exposure to enterprise clients.
- Collaborative, metrics-driven culture focused on learning, process improvement and high-impact delivery.
This opening is for a Junior HR Team Leader / HR Team Lead (Consultancy) working remotely from India. If you're passionate about leading delivery-focused recruitment teams, driving client success and building repeatable hiring operations, apply to join the team at Mindtel.
Skills: teams,applicant tracking systems,sourcing,recruitment,hygiene,linkedin,interview,linkedin recruiter,operations,hiring
