Talent Acquisition Lead

Job Overview

What You ll Do

• Translate org plans into quarterly and monthly hiring plans across product, tech, revenue and central teams
• Lead and mentor the recruiting team, building capability in search strategy, screening excellence, stakeholder partnership, and world-class candidate experience
• Own end to end hiring for critical and leadership roles
• Design and run a weekly hiring operating rhythm with clear dashboards, reviews, and risk visibility
• Build and improve recruiting processes and candidate journeys across functions.
• Balance internal sourcing, referrals, and vendor partnerships to maximize velocity while maintaining a self-reliant talent engine
• Partner closely with People Ops on offers, compensation, and pre-joining engagement to create a seamless and compelling candidate experience
• Work with founders and the employer branding team on campaigns and content that attract the right talent to SquadStack.ai
• Experiment with AI and automation to speed up sourcing, screening and reporting where it makes sense

What We re Looking For:

• You are comfortable with ambitious targets and are obsessed with both speed and quality
• You genuinely like building people and systems
• You communicate clearly and directly, and you are comfortable pushing back using data
• You care deeply about the experience of every candidate and every hiring manager
• You have 6 to 8 years of experience in talent acquisition with at least 2 years leading a team
• You have worked in fast growing product, tech, AI, analytics orgs where hiring was central to business success

• Opportunity to build the full TA org for a high growth AI company
• A culture that values talent density, ownership, and candour
• A front row seat to how an AI native business scales

Why should you consider us seriously?

• We believe that long-term, people over product and profits, prioritise culture over everything else.
• We are a well-balanced team of experienced entrepreneurs and are backed by top investors across India and Silicon Valley (Chiratae Ventures, Blume Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Emergent Ventures; Senior execs at Google, Square, Genpact & Flipkart; Co-founders of Infosys, Snapdeal, SlideShare, Zomato, etc.)
• Freedom and Responsibility
• Entrepreneurial Team
• Exponential Growth
• Healthcare (Physical & Mental Wellness)

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