Talent Acquisition Lead

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Talent Acquisition Lead based in India.

This is a hands-on, globally focused IT recruitment role for an experienced talent acquisition professional who can independently manage complex hiring mandates.

You will partner directly with international customers to understand workforce needs and translate them into effective recruitment strategies.

The role covers the full hiring lifecycle, from requirement intake and sourcing through interviews, negotiation, offer acceptance, and onboarding engagement.

You will recruit across diverse technology domains, including cloud, cybersecurity, software development, data and AI, ERP, and IT operations.

Strong business-level English and Japanese communication skills are essential for engaging candidates and customers across international markets.

Success will be measured through delivery speed, fulfillment, SLA adherence, offer acceptance, and customer satisfaction.

As an individual contributor, you will have significant ownership and autonomy while managing multiple global mandates simultaneously.

Accountabilities

• Engage directly with international customers to understand hiring requirements, clarify role expectations, and translate business needs into actionable recruitment strategies.
• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from requirement intake and sourcing through screening, interviews, offer closure, joining confirmation, and candidate engagement until onboarding.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, job portals, referrals, direct sourcing, and other relevant channels.
• Build and maintain structured talent pipelines for recurring, strategic, and high-priority IT positions.
• Create bilingual job postings and candidate communications in English and Japanese as required.
• Conduct structured candidate screening interviews, evaluating technical capabilities, communication skills, cultural fit, and readiness for customer engagement.
• Coordinate interviews across multiple time zones, manage feedback loops, and ensure timely communication with candidates and stakeholders.
• Support compensation discussions and negotiations while proactively addressing concerns and driving successful offer acceptance.
• Conduct regular customer status meetings and present hiring dashboards covering submissions, interviews, offers, fulfillment progress, and recruitment challenges.
• Provide customers with relevant hiring-market insights and recommendations to improve recruitment outcomes.
• Manage multiple global hiring mandates while maintaining agreed service levels, fulfillment targets, responsiveness, and candidate quality.
• Track and optimize key recruitment metrics, including time-to-submit, time-to-fill, SLA adherence, fulfillment ratio, offer acceptance rate, and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• 8-12 years of professional experience in IT recruitment or talent acquisition, with substantial experience managing end-to-end hiring processes.
• Proven experience working within global staffing, resource augmentation, or similar international recruitment models.
• Demonstrated experience engaging directly with international customers and managing customer-facing recruitment relationships.
• Strong understanding of IT technologies and the ability to accurately map technical skills and experience to roles across cloud and infrastructure, cybersecurity, application development, data and AI, ERP and enterprise applications, and IT operations.
• Hands-on experience managing Japanese-speaking recruitment mandates and supporting hiring processes involving Japanese-speaking candidates or customers.
• Business-level Japanese proficiency is mandatory, with JLPT N1 preferred.
• Business-level English proficiency, both spoken and written, with the ability to independently conduct interviews, customer discussions, presentations, and written communications.
• Strong ownership, accountability, responsiveness, and customer orientation.
• Excellent negotiation and offer-closure capabilities, with the ability to maintain candidate engagement through the joining process.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple international mandates, priorities, and time zones simultaneously.
• Comfortable using recruitment systems, sourcing platforms, dashboards, and reporting tools to monitor pipeline and delivery performance.
• Structured and data-driven approach to recruitment, with the ability to interpret performance metrics and identify areas for improvement.

Benefits

• Full-time, individual contributor position with significant ownership over global IT recruitment delivery.
• Opportunity to work directly with international customers and candidates across multiple markets.
• Exposure to diverse technology domains, including cloud, cybersecurity, application development, data and AI, ERP, and IT operations.
• Opportunity to use and develop professional English and Japanese communication skills in a global business environment.
• High degree of autonomy in managing sourcing strategies, recruitment pipelines, and customer mandates.
• Opportunity to build expertise in international staffing and resource augmentation models.
• Performance-driven environment with clearly defined recruitment and customer-success metrics.
• The source description does not specify salary, healthcare, paid leave, bonuses, or other additional benefits.