Senior Lead, Talent Acquisition

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop smartphone wearable device voice-controlled gadget flexible screen VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles integrated circuits packaging printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists engineers data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the worlds leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrows electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

The vision of KLAs global human resources organization is to become a leader and partner to operating leadership in support of the companys efforts to achieve its strategic growth customer and operating objectives through strategic talent management. Our mission is to enable the business and leverage human resources to achieve short and long-term business objectives. Our primary areas of strategic focus include talent acquisition individual and organizational assessment and development performance management inclusion and engagement and rewards. The global HR organization includes HR business partners learning and development talent acquisition compensation and benefits employee communications and HR system operations.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Role Overview:

Position Overview

The Talent Acquisition lead is responsible for designing and delivering endtoend talent acquisition work for a Semiconductor Global Capability Center supporting rapid scaleup of engineering R&D digital IT and shared services teams. The role combines strategic workforce planning highquality hiring execution stakeholder partnership and governance in a highly competitive semiconductor talent market.

This is a full-time on-site role located in Chennai. This is an individual contributor role report to Manager HR KLA India.

1. Talent Acquisition Strategy & Workforce Planning

• Translate global and India GCC workforce plans into actionable TA strategies aligned with semiconductor business priorities.
• Build scalable hiring models for niche senior and volume roles while balancing speed quality and cost.
• Use external talent intelligence and market insights to advise leadership on demandsupply risks and capability gaps.

2. EndtoEnd Hiring Delivery

• Own fullcycle recruitment for lateral leadership niche and critical skills hiring.
• Ensure strong governance on timetohire quality of hire offertojoin ratio and candidate experience.
• Implement structured assessment frameworks (competency mapping interview calibration selection matrices) to reduce bias and enhance quality.

3. Stakeholder & Business Partnership

• Act as a talent advisor to the leaders Engineering heads and HR Business Partners.
• Support leaders with talent segmentation location strategy and hiring prioritization.
• Partner with global TA CoEs and workforce planning teams to ensure alignment with global hiring standards.

4. Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead and develop a highperforming TA team (recruiters sourcers coordinators).
• Drive capability building in hiring niche skill sourcing and stakeholder management.
• Foster a culture of datadriven decisionmaking ownership and continuous improvement.

5. Employer Branding

• Execute employer branding activities across career pages job portals and social media platforms by coordinating content creatives and campaigns that highlight the organizations culture values.
• Assist in creating and managing employer branding content such as job descriptions employee testimonials recruitment videos campus branding materials and event collateral in collaboration with TA marketing and external vendors.
• Track engagement metrics (career site traffic social media reach campaign responses) and support benchmarking of employer branding efforts against competitors to continuously improve talent attraction outcomes.

6. Tools Analytics & Process Excellence

• Drive adoption and optimization of Workday recruitment automation and AIenabled sourcing tools.
• Maintain dashboards tracking Turnaround Time (TAT) Quality of Hiring (QOH) sourcing mix cost per hire and funnel health etc.
• Standardize TA processes to ensure scalability audit readiness and consistency.

• Ensure compliance with local labor laws data privacy norms and global TA policies.
• Manage search firms staffing vendors through clear SLAs scorecards and governance.
• Support auditready recruitment documentation and approvals.

• Postgraduate degree in HR / Management or equivalent.
• 1015 years of Talent Acquisition experience in MNC with 800 HC with significant exposure to semiconductor hitech or deeptech GCCs.
• Proven experience in niche engineering hiring scaleup environments and leadership stakeholder management.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Excellent communication and presentation skills as this role will interact internally with senior leadership global executives and externally with various agencies.
• Semiconductor / Engineering hiring expertise
• GCC scaleup & workforce planning
• Stakeholder advisory mindset
• Datadriven TA & talent intelligence
• Campus & earlycareer programs
• Vendor governance & compliance
• Strong leadership & influencing skills
• Project Management approach

Success Measures

• Hiring delivery against plan (quality speed)
• Time to fill the position
• Critical skill gap closure
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Team capability maturity
• Auditsafe scalable TA operations

Minimum Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in HR / Management or equivalent.
• 1015 years of Talent Acquisition experience in MNC with 800 HC with significant exposure to semiconductor hitech or deeptech GCCs.
• Proven experience in niche engineering hiring scaleup environments and leadership stakeholder management.

We offer a competitive family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer

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