Leader - Talent Acquisition

Overview

Lead a portfolio of strategic GCC and product-engineering client accounts, owning talent strategy, executive relationships, delivery performance, and the leadership teams that deliver outcomes. This is a multi-account leadership role, not a senior recruiting delivery position.

What you'll do

• Own multi-account TA strategy, workforce demand forecasts, hiring prioritization and delivery commitments across technology, engineering and functional talent.
• Advise executives on talent-market feasibility, compensation, role calibration, hiring trade-offs and scenarios; challenge unrealistic plans with evidence.
• Translate growth plans into capacity models, account operating plans, hiring forecasts and clear decisions on investments, redeployment and risk.
• Build targeted market maps and proactive pipelines for niche engineering, AI, data, leadership and other business-critical capabilities.
• Lead sourcing strategy across research, referrals, communities, direct search, specialist partners and adjacent-skill talent pools.
• Set the strategy for complex searches and hiring drives, balancing talent quality, market realities, interview capacity and joining timelines.
• Act as a trusted talent advisor to senior global executives, with direct accountability for confidence and outcomes across accounts.
• Lead executive business reviews with a clear point of view on progress, risks, options, trade-offs and decisions required.
• Personally lead critical account resets and escalations; restore confidence through diagnosis, corrective action, governance and sustained results.
• Lead and develop Managers, Leads, recruiters, sourcers and TA operations; build successors who can independently own account delivery.
• Coach teams in technical talent advisory, structured problem-solving, sourcing, stakeholder influence and evidence-based decision-making.
• Own capacity allocation, performance standards, succession, accountability and team health across a changing portfolio of client demands.
• Establish operating mechanisms that make hiring predictable: calibrated intakes, interviewer readiness, decision SLAs and clear ownership.
• Diagnose systemic delivery gaps and improve conversion, assessment consistency, candidate quality, time-to-hire and stakeholder experience.
• Ensure disciplined offer management, post-offer engagement, onboarding handoffs and risk-based joining forecasts across accounts.
• Own demand, funnel, joining, forecast, productivity and utilization scorecards; use market and funnel data to forecast, diagnose and allocate resources.
• Manage staffing economics, utilization, vendor spend and delivery quality.
• Lead cross-TA transformation in analytics, AI, sourcing or governance; scale reusable tools and playbooks and quantify gains across accounts.
• Improve ATS discipline, data integrity, forecasting and adoption of automation.
• Shape GCC talent propositions with clients and brand teams; apply market insights to client launches and leadership searches.
• Support client growth and retention through trusted advisory and strong delivery.

What you'll need

• 15+ years in TA, including strategic account or portfolio leadership.
• Proven GCC, product and engineering hiring at senior levels.
• Proven multi-account ownership, account recovery and measurable results.
• Experience leading leaders, capacity planning, TA analytics and commercial decisions.
• Strategic workforce planning, multi-account leadership and executive-level talent advisory.
• Credible CEO/CTO/CHRO/CIO engagement; confident, concise communication and constructive challenge.
• Leadership development, succession planning, performance management and scaling through others.
• Funnel analytics, market intelligence, forecasting, capacity and utilization economics.
• Account recovery, delivery governance, quality-of-hire discipline and candidate experience.
• Complex technology sourcing, transformation leadership and repeatable TA capability building.

Details

• Location: Koramangala, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.