Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 5 years

Location: Gurugram

JobType: full-time

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Assistant Manager – Talent Acquisition to lead high-quality hiring initiatives across multiple business functions. This role is ideal for a people-centric recruiter with strong leadership skills, hands-on expertise in full-cycle talent acquisition, and proven success in managing a high-performing recruitment team. The ideal candidate will bring 5–9 years of experience spanning startup, product, corporate, and leadership hiring environments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Talent Acquisition Strategy & Execution

• Drive the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including role scoping, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, selection, salary negotiations, and onboarding.
• Partner with business heads and hiring managers to understand workforce needs and develop tailored talent strategies.
• Manage hiring across diverse business lines including product, analytics, technology, corporate functions, sales, and support roles.
• Lead and execute recruitment for critical, niche, and leadership-level positions, ensuring a strong pipeline of high-quality candidates.
• Champion diversity hiring initiatives by developing inclusive sourcing strategies that align with organizational DEI goals.

2. Sourcing & Pipeline Management

• Implement innovative sourcing techniques such as social hiring, referral programs, Boolean search, talent communities, and market mapping.
• Build, nurture, and maintain strong internal and external talent pipelines for current and future requirements.
• Leverage data-driven insights to assess sourcing channel performance and optimize recruitment effectiveness.

3. Team Building & People Management

• Build, mentor, and manage a team of recruiters while fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Provide regular training, performance feedback, and guidance to ensure team alignment with hiring goals and organizational expectations.
• Motivate the team to meet ambitious hiring targets while maintaining excellent candidate and stakeholder experience.

4. Stakeholder & Candidate Experience Management

• Act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders, offering market insights, hiring trends, competitor analysis, and data-driven recommendations.
• Ensure seamless coordination between recruitment, HR operations, and business teams.
• Maintain high standards of candidate engagement, ensuring transparency, timely communication, and a positive hiring journey.

5. Reporting, Analytics & Compliance

• Track and report key hiring metrics such as TAT, source effectiveness, offer-to-join ratios, and pipeline progress.
• Present weekly and monthly recruitment dashboards using data-driven insights to support strategic decisions.
• Ensure compliance with recruitment policies, data protection standards, and audit requirements.
• Utilize ATS and HRMS tools effectively to maintain accurate and updated candidate databases.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–9 years of hands-on experience in end-to-end recruitment, team handling, and stakeholder management.
• Strong expertise in product hiring, startup hiring, internal hiring, analytics hiring, corporate hiring, and diversity hiring.
• Demonstrated success in leadership hiring and managing recruitment for high-impact roles.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with ATS platforms and recruitment analytics tools.
• Ability to build and lead a high-performing recruitment team.