Principal Recruiter - Contract

About the Role

We are seeking a highly driven Senior / Principal Recruiter to join our Talent Acquisition team on a 6-month contract. This role is ideal for someone who has extensive experience hiring high-caliber technology talent and enjoys partnering closely with business leaders to solve complex hiring challenges.

The successful candidate will own end-to-end recruitment for critical technical roles, drive exceptional candidate experiences, and help us attract world-class talent.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for engineering, product, and technical leadership positions.


• Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, define candidate profiles, and build effective hiring strategies.


• Proactively source and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, and other innovative sourcing channels.


• Conduct recruiter screenings and evaluate candidates for technical depth, cultural alignment, and role fit.


• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.


• Drive a high-quality candidate experience throughout the interview process.


• Manage offer discussions, negotiations, and candidate closing activities.


• Collaborate with interviewers and hiring teams to ensure timely and effective decision-making.


• Track and report key recruiting metrics, pipeline health, and hiring progress.


• Continuously improve recruiting processes, sourcing strategies, and employer branding efforts.

Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition with a strong focus on technology hiring.


• Proven success in recruiting software engineers, product managers, architects, engineering leaders, and other technical professionals.


• Strong sourcing capabilities with experience identifying and engaging passive talent.


• Experience working in high-growth startups or product organizations.


• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.


• Strong communication, negotiation, and candidate engagement abilities.


• Ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously while maintaining a high quality bar.


• Experience using ATS platforms and recruiting tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter.

Preferred

• Experience hiring for enterprise software, SaaS, cloud, data platform, infrastructure, AI/ML, or data engineering roles.


• Prior experience working in venture-backed or high-growth technology companies.


• Exposure to recruiting for global teams and geographically distributed organizations.


• Experience leveraging AI tools and modern recruiting technologies to improve productivity and candidate engagement.

What Success Looks Like

• Consistently delivering high-quality technical hires.


• Building strong relationships with hiring managers and business leaders.


• Maintaining a high candidate experience standard.


• Driving efficient hiring processes with strong conversion ratios.


• Creating robust talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill positions.

Location Requirement

This is an onsite role based in Bengaluru. Candidates should be willing to work from the office and collaborate closely with hiring managers and business leaders.