Senior Specialist - Talent Acquisition - IT - Contractual

About the Venture

A leading smart grid infrastructure venture, building next-generation platforms and products that integrate monitoring, analytics, and mitigation technologies to enhance grid reliability and power resilience across utilities, industries, data centers, and EV infrastructure in India, and across the globe.

As part of the core team, you will work directly with the leadership to shape business strategy, market development, and ecosystem partnerships for this high-impact energy venture.

Role Overview

We're looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist who will lead hiring efforts for our software engineering teams - managing end-to-end recruitment, from early-career engineers to senior technical leaders.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with engineering and functional leaders to define workforce plans and hiring strategies for software engineering roles

- Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies to attract top product engineering talent.

- Translate hiring needs into clear, compelling job descriptions that reflect company's technical depth and innovation culture.

- Build and manage strong talent pipelines through proactive mapping, networking, and direct sourcing.

- Drive full-cycle recruitment - from outreach and screening to coordination, feedback management, and offer closure.

- Continuously refine recruitment processes to enhance speed, quality, and candidate experience.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on employer branding initiatives to strengthen company's visibility in the deep-tech ecosystems.

- Track, measure, and analyze recruitment metrics to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements:

- 6-10 years of experience in technology recruitment, with a strong focus on software products / platforms.

- Proven ability to hire for diverse engineering profiles - including backend, data engineering, devops etc.

- Deep understanding of the talent landscape across India.

- Strong stakeholder management and consultative partnership with engineering leaders.

- Passion for building technical teams that contribute to the clean energy and smart grid revolution.