Head - Talent Acquisition - Internet/eCommerce Startup

Job Responsibilities :

- Creating talent acquisition strategies based on the client requirement. Act as a Talent Acquisition business partner to our clients.

- Participating in strategic meetings and provide talent insights and talent landscape for the client requirement

- Advising clients on the talent availability and effective hiring process relevant to the market

- Drive innovative, out of box and creative methods of sourcing and hunting to find the best talent for rapid growth tech start-ups.

- Build talent communities of high potential tech talent in the high demand skill and domain areas.

- Building and engaging with start up community to know the latest talent acquisition trends / key team / talent movements.

- Driving recruitment teams to achieve service delivery as per the agreed SLA.

- Managing the KPI's for each engagement and report them on a periodic schedule to key stakeholders both internal and clients. You will be expected to present these reports to leadership both internal and clients

- Ensuring the in-house applicant tracking system is always used diligently and kept up to date with accurate job and candidate data. In case of using a client system, the same level of engagement is expected.

- Managing key client stakeholders and be one point of issue/escalation resolution.

- Build, train, and coach a high calibre team of recruiters who are trained in the ways of working of the start-up talent ecosystems and have strong out of box talent attraction skills

- Engaging Vendors as and when required keeping in view the overall cost of hiring and the impact it will have on the overall budget of the engagement.

- More than 10 years- experience in managing end to end recruitment in a fast-paced, predominantly in a, technology hiring environment.

- Experience working in a start-up ecosystem is highly desirable and will be a key differentiator.

- Exposure to hiring for skills in niche and emerging technologies.

- Technical bent of mind and a flair to understand technology hiring needs of clients and be able to advice clients on the talent landscape.

- Experience hiring across multiple career levels from entry level to leadership talent.

- Demonstrated experience in hiring high volumes and against tight deadlines

- Managed diverse recruitment teams that work in different engagement models like source/screen/present and end to end. Ability to manage teams that are not co-located.