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HR Recruiter(Talent Acquisition Specialist)
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Posted:
26 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
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Application Deadline:
23 August 2026
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
HR Recruiter (Talent Acquisition Specialist)
Location
Calicut (Kozhikode) Kerala On-site
Experience
2 3 years
Compensation
4 4.8 LPA
Employment Type
Full-time Permanent
Reports To
CEO (Vinoop Thayatt)
About Mailercloud
Mailercloud is a global email marketing and deliverability SaaS company building tools that help thousands of businesses worldwide send better email at scale. Were headquartered in London UK with offices in Calicut and Bangalore a fast-growing profitable company with a strong product a passionate customer base and big ambitions for the year ahead.
Our India team is growing and were looking for a recruiter who can help us bring in the right people faster. This role is built around one mandate: hire well.
The Role
Were hiring a Specialist Recruiter to own end-to-end recruitment for our India operations. This is a focused individual-contributor role your job is to source screen and close the right candidates for engineering product sales customer success and operations roles.
This is not a generalist HR role. Day-to-day HR operations (employee lifecycle Keka admin IT assets engagement execution) are handled by our HR Operations team. You stay focused on hiring and youll report directly to the CEO.
What Youll Own
Sourcing and amp; Pipeline Building
- Build candidate pipelines for both IT roles (engineers product design) and non-IT roles (sales marketing customer success operations) using Naukri LinkedIn Recruiter Indeed hirist and direct outreach
- Develop and maintain a strong network across Keralas IT ecosystem (Cyberpark Calicut Infopark Kochi) and pan-India tech communities
- Use Boolean search X-Ray search referral networks and creative sourcing to find strong passive candidates
Screening and amp; Selection
- Conduct first-round HR interviews evaluate culture fit communication motivation and basic role alignment
- Coordinate technical interview panels with hiring managers; manage interview logistics end-to-end
- Run candidate assessments reference checks and background verifications
Stakeholder and amp; Hiring Manager Partnership
- Partner with hiring managers to finalize JDs interview rubrics and realistic hiring timelines
- Publish a weekly hiring update for the CEO: open roles pipeline depth bottlenecks time-to-fill
- Be the single point of contact for candidates throughout the hiring journey strong candidate experience is non-negotiable
Offer Rollout and amp; Closing
- Negotiate offers within approved compensation bands; manage offer rollout document collection and pre-onboarding handoff to HR Operations
- Track joiner-conversion ratios and reduce drop-off between offer and join-date
Reporting and amp; Process Improvement
- Maintain a clean candidate tracker / ATS in Keka every candidate every stage current
- Publish a weekly recruitment dashboard: open roles pipeline depth time-to-fill offer-to-join ratio source effectiveness
- Continuously refine sourcing channels JD quality and the interview process to improve hiring outcomes
Required Qualifications
- 23 years of end-to-end recruitment experience in an IT SaaS or product technology company
- Proven ability to source for technical roles must be comfortable hiring software developers designers and product managers
- Strong working knowledge of Naukri LinkedIn Recruiter Boolean search and at least one ATS (Keka Zoho Recruit Greenhouse or similar)
- Excellent communication in English (Malayalam is a plus for local candidate handling)
- Strong negotiation candidate-handling and stakeholder-management skills
- Comfortable working independently and reporting directly to the CEO
- Bachelors degree in any discipline; MBA / PGDM in HR is a plus but not required
Preferred (Nice to Have)
- Prior experience hiring for an IT/SaaS company with global operations (Cyberpark Infopark or remote-first)
- Track record hiring for niche tech roles DevOps AI/ML Backend Senior Engineers Product Managers
- Exposure to global hiring (UK / US / Europe) we hire across our London Calicut and Bangalore offices
- Familiarity with employer branding careers-page content and recruitment marketing
- Recruitment certifications (LinkedIn Recruiter AIRS SHRM or equivalent)
What We Offer
- Compensation: 4 4.8 LPA based on experience and IT recruitment background
- Direct exposure to the CEO your work directly impacts company growth not buried under layers of management
- Clear career path as Mailercloud scales this is a foundational hire not a placeholder
- Modern SaaS environment work alongside a product used by thousands of businesses globally
- Standard benefits Paid leave statutory benefits (PF ESI Gratuity) wellness initiatives
- Permanent full-time role based out of our Calicut (Kozhikode) office
How to Apply
Send your CV along with a short note (35 sentences) on your most successful hire to date what role how long it took to fill and what made it work to .
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HR Recruiter Calicut Your Name
