Recruiter (Contract - 1 year)

Overview

Recruiter responsible for proactive talent discovery, market mapping, passive candidate engagement, and building strong talent pipelines, especially for niche, specialized, and hard-to-fill roles. This is a contract role for 1 year.

What you'll do

• Own proactive sourcing and headhunting for niche, specialized, and senior-level roles.
• Build targeted talent maps across companies, industries, technologies, and geographies.
• Identify and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn, professional networks, referrals, communities, and other sourcing channels.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for roles where traditional job postings have limited impact.
• Conduct detailed candidate research to understand skills, experience, career trajectory, and potential fit before outreach.
• Write personalized and compelling outreach messages that drive meaningful candidate engagement.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines of qualified talent for current and future hiring needs.
• Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand role requirements, priorities, and candidate profiles.
• Use market intelligence to provide insights on talent availability, competitor hiring, compensation trends, and relevant talent pools.
• Track sourcing activity, conversion rates, pipeline health, and other recruiting metrics.
• Maintain accurate candidate information and sourcing activity in the ATS.
• Continuously experiment with new sourcing tools, platforms, communities, and techniques to improve hiring outcomes.
• Build long-term relationships with high-quality candidates, even when there is no immediate opening.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of experience in recruiting, executive search, talent sourcing, or headhunting, preferably in a high-growth or technology environment.
• Strong experience sourcing passive candidates for difficult-to-fill roles.
• Proven ability to identify and engage talent through LinkedIn and other creative sourcing channels.
• Strong understanding of Boolean search, X-ray search, talent mapping, and advanced sourcing techniques.
• Excellent research skills and the ability to identify talent beyond obvious candidate pools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly for candidate outreach and engagement.
• Ability to understand technical or specialized roles and translate hiring requirements into effective sourcing strategies.
• Comfortable working with hiring managers and challenging candidate profiles to build targeted search strategies.
• Data-driven approach with an understanding of sourcing and funnel metrics.
• Highly persistent, resourceful, and comfortable working on roles where the talent pool is limited.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring for Engineering, Product, Data, Security, Compliance, or other specialized technology roles.
• Experience working in startups, high-growth companies, or fast-paced environments.
• Exposure to executive search or senior-level hiring.
• Experience with sourcing tools, talent intelligence platforms, or recruiting automation/AI tools.

Details

• Contract role for 1 year.
• Work onsite Monday to Friday at the Bangalore office.
• Location: India.