Tech Recruiter

Role & responsibilities

Hiring Delivery

• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for Tech Product Leadership and select Non-Tech roles from intake and sourcing to screening interviews offer negotiation closure and onboarding handover.

• Hire across levels in Tech and Product including:

• SDE IIII

• Staff / Principal Engineers

• Engineering Managers

• Data / ML Engineers

• Data Scientists

• QA / SDET

• DevOps / SRE

• Product Managers

• Product Designers / UX

• Analytics roles

• Drive hiring for Leadership and Senior Management roles including Directors Heads of Function VPs and other L-level leaders across Technology Product and Business functions.

• Support hiring for select Non-Tech functions such as Marketing Finance Supply Chain & Operations HR Category / Merchandising and other corporate functions based on business requirements.

• Consistently meet and exceed TAT offer-to-join and quality-of-hire targets.

Sourcing & Talent Intelligence

• Build proactive talent pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter GitHub job boards communities referrals and direct outreach rather than relying primarily on inbound applications.

• Conduct talent mapping for critical and niche roles such as Computer Vision ML Consumer Electronics Smart Wearables Product Managers and Senior Leadership positions.

• Develop and maintain target-company lists for strategic and niche hiring.

• Track talent-market trends compensation benchmarks and competitor movements across Tech and Non-Tech functions.

Business Partnership

• Conduct structured intake sessions with hiring managers to define role scorecards must-haves competencies and interview plans.

• Drive regular pipeline reviews and provide data-backed recommendations on talent availability feasibility compensation and sourcing strategy.

• Partner with senior stakeholders on leadership hiring including confidential mandates and collaboration with executive search firms.

• Coach interviewers on structured competency-based interviewing and ensure timely quality feedback.

Candidate Experience & Employer Brand

• Deliver a fast transparent and respectful candidate experience throughout the hiring journey.

• Effectively position and sell the Lenskart story including the scale of problems we solve career opportunities and growth potential.

• Contribute to employer branding initiatives including hackathons campus engagements community events engineering blogs and employee referral drives.

Preferred candidate profile

• 2 to 10 years of recruitment experience with at least 2 years focused primarily on Technology and/or Product hiring.

• Proven track record of closing roles across multiple tech functions including Engineering Data/ML and Product preferably within a product company startup e-commerce or consumer-internet environment.

• Experience in leadership and senior-level hiring including Engineering Managers Directors and Heads of Product/Functions.

• Exposure to Non-Tech hiring across business and corporate functions.

• Strong technical understanding with the ability to differentiate Backend Full-Stack and other technology profiles understand tech stacks and assess candidate fit credibly.

• Strong hands-on sourcing expertise across LinkedIn Recruiter Boolean search and GitHub with proven experience building pipelines for niche and hard-to-hire roles.

• Strong stakeholder management skills including the ability to challenge unrealistic requirements and provide data-backed recommendations.

• Strong offer negotiation and closure skills including managing counter-offers notice periods and buy-out discussions.

Good to Have

• Experience managing confidential leadership searches and hiring Director VP and Head-level positions.

• Exposure to hiring across AI/ML Computer Vision and Hardware-Software product teams.

• Experience hiring for Non-Tech functions such as Marketing Finance Supply Chain HR and Merchandising.

• Experience with ATS platforms and recruitment analytics including Excel/Sheets and dashboards.

• Prior experience working with executive search firms and recruitment agencies.

• Experience managing multi-geography hiring across India Southeast Asia and Europe.