# Talent Acquisition Manager

> Weekday AI · India (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-28

**Salary:** INR 1,500,000–1,800,000

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of Weekday’s clients  
Salary range: Rs 1500000 - Rs 1800000 (ie INR 15 - 18 LPA)**

  
Min Experience: 10+ years  
Location: Remote (India)  
JobType: full-time

We are seeking a **strategic Talent Acquisition Leader** to build, scale, and mature our hiring function for a fast‑growing **autonomous drone defense and AI‑powered product organization**. This role designs a **scalable Talent Acquisition engine** that supports rapid growth, evolving capability needs, and mission‑critical hiring across technology and business functions.

This is a **business-critical leadership role** that shapes how we attract, evaluate, and hire world‑class talent. We seek a hands‑on recruitment leader who is equally comfortable strategizing with leadership and personally executing critical steps of the hiring process - from candidate screening to offer creation. The ideal candidate has prior experience across every stage of end‑to‑end recruitment and acts as a subject matter expert, ensuring both speed and governance compliance.”

## Requirements

**Key Responsibilities**

### **A. Talent Acquisition Strategy & Leadership**

-   Build and execute a **company-wide Talent Acquisition strategy** aligned with business goals, capability building, and future workforce planning.
-   Translate organizational growth plans into structured hiring roadmaps, quarterly plans, and execution mechanisms.
-   Act as a **strategic talent partner** to Founders, CXOs, Business Leaders, and Hiring Managers.

### **B. Technology + Business Hiring**

Lead hiring across specialized and diverse roles including:

-   **Autonomous Systems, Robotics, AI/ML, Embedded Engineering, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Data, Product, Engineering**
-   **Sales, Pre‑Sales, Business Development, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, HR, Operations**
-   **Leadership roles across functions**

### **C. Build Scalable Hiring Processes**

-   Create structured recruitment frameworks, interview loops, SLAs, hiring dashboards, and documentation systems.
-   Standardize job descriptions, interview rubrics, evaluation forms, and decision-making processes.
-   Implement predictable hiring mechanisms that scale with organizational growth.

### **D. Workforce & Talent Planning**

-   Partner with business teams to understand future capability needs.
-   Build proactive talent pipelines for niche, critical, and high-impact roles.
-   Conduct quarterly workforce planning and hiring capacity analysis.

### **E. Talent Intelligence & Market Mapping**

-   Conduct market research on talent availability, competitor talent pools, compensation trends, and sourcing strategies.
-   Build talent intelligence reports for leadership decision-making.

### **F. Solve Hiring Bottlenecks**

Identify and resolve bottlenecks across:

-   Sourcing channels
-   Interview readiness
-   Panel bandwidth
-   Decision cycles
-   Compensation alignment
-   Offer conversions
-   Notice periods
-   Internal processes and documentation gaps

### **G. Build & Lead TA Teams**

-   Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing Talent Acquisition team.
-   Define ownership, specialization, KPIs, and execution culture.
-   Drive accountability, speed, and quality across the hiring lifecycle.

### **H. Data-Driven Recruitment**

Use hiring data to improve:

-   Time-to-Hire
-   Quality-of-Hire
-   Offer-to-Join Ratio
-   Source Effectiveness
-   Cost-of-Hire
-   Hiring Manager Experience
-   Process predictability and SLA adherence

**3\. Required Skills & Experience**

-   7–12 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
-   Experience scaling hiring in **high-growth product/technology organizations**.
-   Strong understanding of technical hiring (AI/ML, Robotics, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Product).
-   Proven ability to build recruitment processes, frameworks, and TA teams.
-   Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
-   Ability to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous, high-accountability environments.
-   Experience with hiring dashboards, ATS systems, and recruitment analytics.

**4\. Competencies**

-   Strategic Thinking
-   Execution Excellence
-   Stakeholder Management
-   Problem Solving & Decision Making
-   Talent Intelligence
-   Process Design & Optimization
-   Leadership & Team Building
-   Data-Driven Mindset
-   High Ownership & Accountability

**5\. What Success Looks Like**

-   Predictable, scalable hiring processes
-   Reduced Time-to-Hire and improved Quality-of-Hire
-   Strong talent pipelines for critical roles
-   High hiring manager satisfaction
-   Clear documentation, SLAs, and audit-ready processes
-   A high-performing TA team with strong execution culture
-   TA functioning as a **business partner**, not a support function

Must-have skills

Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Hiring

Good-to-have skills

Hiring, Recruiter

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/0358A5AD22/apply)

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