Talent Acquisition Lead

Before You Apply

Please DO NOT apply if:

• You're looking for a comfortable people-management role with minimal individual contribution.
• You prefer maintaining the status quo over building, scaling, and transforming.
• You need detailed instructions for every decision instead of operating with ownership and judgment.
• You're uncomfortable with ambiguity, rapid change, aggressive growth targets, or high accountability environments.
• You believe recruiting is an administrative function rather than a revenue-generating business function.
• You avoid difficult conversations, performance management, stakeholder pushback, or tough hiring challenges.
• You measure effort instead of outcomes.
• You want a 9-to-5 mindset role rather than a mission-driven leadership opportunity.
• You are unwilling to roll up your sleeves, jump into hiring calls, sourcing challenges, client escalations, or recruiter coaching sessions when required.
• You're seeking a title upgrade. We're looking for someone who wants to build a legacy.

What You'll Own

Build, Scale & Lead a High-Performance Talent Acquisition Organization

• Build, develop, and scale a world-class US IT Talent Acquisition function within the Pune IDC, creating the next generation of recruitment leaders.
• Lead from the front as a hands-on floor leader. Be visible, accessible, and involved in the daily execution of the business. This is not a spectator leadership role.
• Hire, coach, mentor, challenge, and inspire recruiters to consistently raise the bar on productivity, quality, professionalism, and business impact.
• Create a high-performance culture built on ownership, urgency, accountability, healthy competition, continuous learning, and execution excellence.
• Design and institutionalize recruiter training academies, coaching frameworks, certification programs, and leadership pipelines.
• Be the energy source of the function. Bring passion, intensity, and positive pressure that motivates teams to achieve more than they thought possible.
• Drive a phone-first, action-oriented culture where activity, responsiveness, and execution discipline translate into outcomes.

Own Client Delivery & Business Outcomes

• Serve as the single point of accountability for delivery performance from the IDC into Kforce's US business.
• Build credibility and influence with US Account Managers, Client Partners, Directors, and executive stakeholders through consistent delivery and sound judgment.
• Drive hiring outcomes across niche and high-demand technology domains including Cloud, Data, AI/ML, Cybersecurity, ERP, Infrastructure, DevOps, Product Engineering, and Emerging Technologies.
• Obsess over delivery metrics, candidate quality, recruiter productivity, offer-to-join conversion, speed-to-market, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Solve complex hiring problems, remove delivery bottlenecks, and create scalable solutions rather than temporary fixes.
• Take ownership of challenging, hard-to-fill, and business-critical requirements that others may avoid.

Drive Operational Excellence Through Data & Process Discipline

• Own TA operations with a CEO mindset, leveraging data, analytics, and business intelligence to make decisions.
• Establish KPI-driven performance management across recruiters, teams, processes, and business outcomes.
• Implement dashboards and governance mechanisms covering productivity, submissions, interviews, offers, joins, pipeline health, quality, and forecasting.
• Ensure impeccable ATS hygiene, process compliance, reporting integrity, and audit readiness.
• Use data to identify opportunities, predict risks, improve conversions, and drive continuous operational improvements.
• Build systems, playbooks, and frameworks that scale beyond individual contributors.

Think Like a Founder. Operate Like a Business Leader.

• Approach the TA function as if you own the business, not just the process.
• Partner with leadership on workforce planning, organizational design, hiring forecasts, capacity planning, and growth initiatives.
• Drive innovation, process transformation, automation, AI adoption, and productivity enhancement across the recruitment lifecycle.
• Build future-ready talent acquisition capabilities capable of supporting aggressive business growth.
• Represent the IDC in leadership reviews, executive forums, operational governance meetings, and strategic discussions.
• Continuously challenge current practices and identify better, faster, and smarter ways of operating.

What Success Looks Like

• Recruiters perform beyond expectations because of your leadership.
• US stakeholders trust your judgment and seek your advice.
• Delivery metrics consistently trend upward.
• Hiring challenges become opportunities to innovate.
• The organization scales because of the systems, talent, and culture you build.
• Your influence extends beyond recruiting into broader business decisions.

Who You Are

• 15-20+ years of US IT Staffing experience, including significant leadership responsibility within offshore, captive, or global delivery environments.
• Proven success leading teams of high-performing recruiters while personally remaining close to the business.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, clients, hiring managers, and leadership teams across geographies.
• Deep expertise across the full US IT staffing lifecycle and strong understanding of US employment classifications and work authorizations.
• Exceptional communication skills with executive presence and the confidence to engage with US business leaders.
• Naturally competitive, highly driven, and energized by ambitious goals and challenging environments.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to convert data into decisions and decisions into measurable outcomes.
• Comfortable operating in environments where priorities evolve and new challenges emerge frequently.
• Willing and able to support overlapping US business hours when business needs demand it.

The Kind of Leader Who Thrives Here

Startup Athlete Comfortable building before scaling. Comfortable scaling before perfecting.

Hustler with Integrity Outworks problems without creating drama.

Gets Things Done Converts ideas into execution, execution into outcomes, and outcomes into business impact.

Influencer Without Authority – Earns followership through credibility, expertise, consistency, and trust.

Lead-by-Example Operator – Will jump on difficult reqs, client calls, interviews, sourcing strategies, and escalation reviews when required.

Problem Solver – Sees obstacles as puzzles to solve, not reasons to stop.

Thrives in Ambiguity – Doesn't wait for perfect information before moving forward.

Builder's Mindset – Creates systems, develops people, and leaves things better than they found them.

High Energy / High Ownership – Brings positive intensity, urgency, resilience, passion, and a relentless drive to win.

Bar Raiser – Refuses to accept average for themselves, their team, or the organization.

Why High Performers Join Us

• Opportunity to build and shape a strategic offshore talent engine backed by a $1B+ publicly traded global organization.
• Significant visibility with US executives, leadership teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to influence hiring strategies that directly impact revenue growth and organizational scalability.
• Entrepreneurial environment with freedom to innovate, experiment, and drive change.
• Accelerated leadership growth as the IDC expands.
• Industry-leading compensation, performance incentives, and long-term career growth opportunities.
• A chance to build something meaningful, lasting, and highly visible rather than simply managing a function.

We're not looking for someone to manage recruiting. We're looking for someone to build, scale, influence, transform, and win.