Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

About NxtWave

NxtWave is one of India's fastest-growing edtech startups, building tech talent for the new economy through its programs and NIAT (NxtWave Institute of Advanced Technologies). We hire at real scale across Tech, Product, Training, Sales and Operations, and our TA team runs on its own hiring platform, NIAT-Hire.

The role

Build and run a talent acquisition function that hires A-players for NxtWave on time and within budget, runs on data and our in-house hiring platform, and scales without depending on any single person. You will own a hiring book, lead a team of TA managers and recruiters, and partner directly with department heads and founders.

What you will own (first 12 -18 months)

Hiring book: Own the Tech, Product and Trainers hiring book (around 25+ open roles plus campus hiring); close on time with no requisition open past 45 days.

Team performance: Run a weekly book review with the TA managers; get each of them to 90%+ of their hiring targets.

Spend and governance: Keep TA spend within the quarterly budget, close hiring KPIs every month on time, and run recruiter incentives with zero disputes.

What you will do

Lead, coach and grow a team of TA managers and recruiters; set their targets and review them on numbers.

Personally drive senior and hard-to-fill hires, especially tech (SDE) and product roles, from sourcing to offer to joining.

Run hiring from funnel metrics (time-to-offer, offer-drop, source mix, cost-per-hire) and change course on the data.

Partner with department heads and founders: push back on unclear requisitions and run a tight hiring-manager feedback loop.

Design processes and tools others can run; drive automation and AI in sourcing and screening rather than adding headcount.

Manage agencies, job boards and LinkedIn spend like a P&L, and bring cost-per-hire down.

Build NxtWave's employer brand through content, referrals and campus presence.

What we are looking for

8-12

4+ recruiters or TA managers

Has personally closed tech/product hiring at volume (around 20-30 SDEs; fewer PMs is fine).

Runs hiring on data and tools: has used an ATS or funnel dashboard and made decisions from the metrics.

In-house TA experience at a product company, edtech or fast-growing startup (agency start is fine with 4+ years in-house).

Uses AI or automation in your own recruiting today, with a real example.

Willing to work on-site in Hyderabad full-time.

Good to have

Has run both volume hiring (campus/bulk, 100+ a quarter) and lateral or leadership hiring.

Has owned TA budgets, agency contracts and cost-per-hire.

Has designed recruiter KRAs, incentive slabs or a hiring governance cadence.

How we work

Ownership: you treat the outcome as yours.

Speed with quality: fast closes without lowering the bar.

Frugality: you spend TA money like your own.

Candour: you say the hard thing to leaders early.

Location

Hyderabad HQ, work from office (relocation support available)

Working days

5 days a week, 9:00 AM 6:30 PM

Joining

Immediate - Within 15 days preferred