Specialist/Lead - US IT Recruiter

Roles/Responsibilities:

Building Relationships with Recruitment Agencies:

- To identify US based staffing and recruitment agencies who can be the right partners to help our client scale US operations

- To build and sustain relationships with the identified partners

- To work with partners to ensure that they are effective in sourcing talent for our client

Senior Hiring:

- To hire senior technical / solution architects for our client's US offices and client project needs

- To hire / support hiring for our client's US sales and consulting team members

- To achieve the above by using a combination of hiring methods - e.g. agencies, job portals, social networking, referrals, networking at events

Facilitation:

- To facilitate interaction between our client's US based sales / account management teams with India based hiring teams (wherever such facilitation is required - e.g. for positions which are urgent or positions which are hard to fill)

Team Building and Grooming:

- To mentor, train and groom our client's India based US hiring team

- To help de-bottleneck difficult recruitment positions

Skills needed:

- Experienced in full recruiting lifecycle (gathering requirements, candidate searches, candidate screening, negotiations, candidate submission, follow-up, interview & on boarding etc.), for IT services

- Proficient in sourcing right candidates through extensive portal search and through vendor interaction

- Proficient in using social media (e.g. LinkedIn) for hiring

- Ability to build partnerships with hiring and staffing organizations

- Should have worked on FTE hiring, and should be familiar with various visa and contract types for US markets

- Candidate must be self-motivated and should have the ability to deliver results and handle pressure

- Should have experience of having worked with an India based team

- Excellent communication and negotiation skills