Sr. Talent Partner

About Sarvam

Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing India’s full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with India’s leading brands, including Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC.

About the Role

As a Senior Talent Partner at Sarvam AI, you aren't just "filling roles"—you are building the foundational team for India’s sovereign AI stack. We are looking for a strategic recruiter who thrives in the high-stakes world of Deep Tech and Generative AI.

In this role, you will lead the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for our most critical technical and research positions. You will work directly with our founding leads to identify, engage, and hire the top 1% of talent, helping us scale from a high-powered startup to a generational AI powerhouse.

What You’ll Do

• Full-Cycle Ownership: Manage the entire recruitment process for complex technical, GTM & business roles

• Strategic Sourcing: Go beyond LinkedIn. You will dive into various source to find passive talent that doesn't "apply" to jobs.

• Partner with Leadership: Act as a talent advisor to the leaders, providing market intelligence, salary benchmarking, etc

• Elevate Candidate Experience: Design and execute a high-touch interview process that reflects Sarvam’s culture of technical excellence and rapid iteration.

• Brand Building: Collaborate on employer branding initiatives to position Sarvam AI as the global destination for potential future hires wanting to solve "India-scale" problems.

What We’re Looking For

• The Experience: Minimum 5+ years of recruitment experience, with at least 3 years specifically hiring for high growth start-ups

• Sourcing Mastery: A proven track record of finding "the needle in the haystack" through advanced Boolean search, networking, and creative outreach.

• Startup DNA: You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and possess the grit required to hire in a highly competitive global AI market.

• Relationship Driven: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build trust with both elite candidates and demanding internal stakeholders.

Why Sarvam?

Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact.

• Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar

• High ownership and high impact, from day one

• Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems

• You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates

If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be.