Lead Recruiter, India

The role

The Lead Recruiter will support hiring across business, operations, and technical roles to scale the India presence. You will partner with senior stakeholders to build the India team and evolve local recruiting processes.

What you will do

• Partner with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to understand hiring needs and align on priorities
• Own the end-to-end recruiting process from intake and sourcing through interviews, offers, and close
• Lead candidate scheduling, interview ops, and candidate logistics for evening and overnight interviews
• Build and maintain strong pipelines for business, operations, and technical roles
• Proactively engage passive talent and develop long-term candidate relationships
• Provide insights on local and global talent markets, compensation, and competitive dynamics
• Own interview scheduling, candidate logistics, and cross-time-zone coordination
• Contribute to building recruiting processes, norms, and ways of working
• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting business, operations, and/or technical roles
• Experience recruiting in a startup or fast-scaling environment
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and evolving processes
• Experience partnering with hiring managers and senior stakeholders
• Experience recruiting for technical or specialized roles
• Hands-on experience sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, CRM tools, and referrals
• Ability to support recruiting operations and coordination
• Ability to track recruiting metrics and identify trends
• Clear written and verbal communication skills

About the company

Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. It serves 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, and 1 million employers.