Talent Acquisition Specialist

🧠 Job Title: Talent Acquisition Associate

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🌍 About Darwix AI

real-time conversational intelligence, multilingual transcription, live agent coaching, and AI-powered sales nudges

We’re already live in India, MENA, and Southeast Asia, serving large enterprise clients in BFSI, retail, and real estate. Backed by top VCs and over 30 industry leaders, we are building the future of revenue enablement from India for the world.

Talent Acquisition Associate

🧭 Role Overview

Talent Acquisition Associate

This is not a typical recruiter role.

foundational position

If you're someone who’s obsessed with talent quality, thrives in fast-paced environments, and wants to build one of India’s strongest startup teams—this role is tailor-made for you.

Talent Sourcing & Pipeline Development

• Proactively identify top talent across platforms like LinkedIn, Naukri, AngelList, GitHub, and Behance.
• Use boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, and talent mapping strategies to build high-quality talent funnels.
• Craft compelling outreach messages that reflect the Darwix brand, vision, and opportunity.
• Build candidate databases and pipelines for active and passive roles across departments.

End-to-End Recruitment Execution

• Own the entire recruitment lifecycle from sourcing to closure for 8–10 active roles at a time.
• Work across departments to hire for tech (Python, DevOps, AI), sales (SDRs, AEs), product, design, operations, and leadership.
• Screen candidates, coordinate interviews, share assignments, and gather feedback from stakeholders.
• Maintain hiring dashboards and ensure seamless process flow across JDs, interview rounds, and offers.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner closely with hiring managers, team leads, and founders to define role requirements, job descriptions, and success criteria.
• Drive alignment across departments to ensure fast decision-making and high candidate conversion.
• Prepare candidate briefs and ensure hiring teams are interview-ready with context and insights.

Candidate Experience & Offer Closure

• Ensure every candidate has a world-class experience—from first message to final offer.
• Run structured debriefs, give timely feedback, and maintain proactive communication at every stage.
• Manage offer rollouts, negotiation, compensation benchmarking, and closure.

Recruitment Analytics & Reporting

• Track sourcing metrics, pipeline health, interview-to-offer ratios, and hiring velocity.
• Create weekly reports and dashboards to provide visibility to the leadership team.
• Continuously analyze hiring funnel to identify process gaps and improvements.

Employer Branding & Talent Marketing

• Work with marketing to drive social media hiring campaigns, JD virality, and thought leadership posts.
• Coordinate with designers to build hiring creatives, founder blurbs, and landing pages for career sections.
• Represent Darwix at career fairs, virtual hiring events, and campus outreach programs.

Hiring Ops, Compliance, and Tools

• Use ATS systems like Zoho Recruit, Notion, or Excel to maintain accurate data tracking.
• Handle interview scheduling, panel alignment, feedback collection, and documentation.
• Ensure all documentation (NDA, contracts, references) is in place before onboarding.
• Suggest and implement automation strategies for sourcing, screening, and follow-ups.

✅ Qualifications📚 Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Psychology, Engineering, or a related field.
• MBA/PGDM in HR or Talent Strategy is a plus, but not mandatory.

🧠 Experience:

• 1–3 years of experience in a fast-paced startup, recruitment agency, or talent team.
• Proven ability to close diverse roles, especially in tech or sales, is a strong plus.
• Prior experience managing hiring dashboards, ATS tools, or Boolean sourcing will be helpful.

🛠️ Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High proficiency in Excel, Google Sheets, Notion, LinkedIn Recruiter, and ATS tools.
• Strong multitasking, time management, and follow-through abilities.
• Hustle mindset—you own your numbers, timelines, and the hiring bar.
• Strong EQ—you can read between the lines and understand team dynamics and candidate motivations.

🚀 Why Join Darwix AI?

• Fastest-growing AI SaaS startup

  : Join a team that’s building India’s answer to Gong + Refract + Harvey AI.

• Work with the best

  : Collaborate with IIT-IIM-BITS founders, ex-McKinsey, ex-Google, and top product builders.

• High ownership

  : You’ll drive key hiring mandates independently while learning directly from the leadership.

• 360° exposure

  : Engage with product, engineering, marketing, and sales to understand business deeply.

• Rapid career growth

  : Opportunity to fast-track into Talent Lead / HRBP / People Ops roles in under 12 months.

• Performance-led compensation

  : Be rewarded for results—no politics, just impact.

🌟 What Success Looks Like

• You close 8–10 high-quality hires in the first 90 days.
• You build a sourcing engine that generates 10–20 qualified leads per role weekly.
• You reduce TAT (time to hire) to under 25 days.
• You maintain a candidate experience NPS of >80%.
• You help build a talent brand that makes Darwix AI a talent magnet.

📩 How to Apply

careers@darwix.ai

Application – Talent Acquisition Associate – [Your Name]

Optional: Attach a short blurb on the most difficult role you’ve closed and why it was memorable.

⚠️ A Note Before You Apply

This role is NOT for those looking for a cozy HR generalist job.

recruiters with hustle

But you’ll also learn more in 1 year than most learn in 3—and be a core part of shaping India’s next breakout AI startup.