Lead Recruiter

Company: IDES Labs
Location: Hyderabad, India
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: 5+ years in recruitment, with team-handling and client-management experience

About the Role

IDES Labs is looking for a hands-on Lead Recruiter / Recruitment Team Lead who can take complete ownership of client relationships, manage a team of 46 recruiters, drive recruitment delivery, and contribute individually to hiring.

This is not a pure team-management position. The Lead will be responsible for both team performance and individual recruitment closures.

The person will regularly connect with client SPOCs, understand and prioritize requirements, allocate positions to recruiters, monitor delivery, resolve challenges, and personally work on selected requirements to ensure targets are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

Client Ownership

• Act as the primary recruitment point of contact for assigned clients.
• Connect regularly with client SPOCs to understand current and upcoming hiring requirements.
• Build strong, professional relationships with clients.
• Clarify job requirements, priorities, timelines, and candidate expectations.
• Collect regular feedback on submitted candidates and interviews.
• Proactively communicate hiring progress, challenges, and updates to clients.
• Identify opportunities to improve client satisfaction and recruitment delivery.

Team Management & Delivery

• Lead and mentor a team of 46 recruiters.
• Assign new requirements to recruiters promptly based on skill, workload, and priority.
• Ensure every requirement has clear ownership and timely action.
• Monitor recruiter activity, submissions, interviews, offers, and onboarding progress.
• Conduct regular reviews of team performance and pipeline.
• Support recruiters with sourcing strategies, candidate evaluation, client feedback, and closures.
• Identify underperforming areas and take corrective action.
• Ensure the team maintains a healthy and active candidate pipeline.

Individual Contribution Mandatory

The Lead is expected to be a hands-on individual contributor in addition to managing the team.

• Personally work on assigned/critical recruitment requirements.
• Source, screen, coordinate, and close candidates independently.
• Handle difficult or priority positions where additional expertise is required.
• Maintain an individual recruitment pipeline and contribute directly to onboarding numbers.
• Participate in client discussions for critical requirements and drive them through closure.
• Individual contribution will be measured separately from team performance.

Target & Accountability

• Manage a team of 46 recruiters.
• Drive a minimum team target of 20 onboardings per month, subject to available client requirements.
• Deliver individual onboardings in addition to the team's 20 onboarding target.
• Maintain consistent client engagement and requirement coverage.
• Ensure requirements are assigned and actioned within agreed timelines.
• Take ownership of the complete recruitment lifecycle from requirement sourcing submission interview offer onboarding.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 5+ years of recruitment experience.
• Has experience managing a team of recruiters.
• Has strong client-facing and client SPOC management experience.
• Has a proven track record of recruitment closures.
• Is comfortable working with recruitment targets and deadlines.
• Can manage multiple client requirements simultaneously.
• Has strong sourcing and candidate-engagement skills.
• Is an excellent communicator and negotiator.
• Can motivate and coach recruiters while maintaining personal productivity.
• Takes complete ownership rather than waiting for instructions.
• Is comfortable being measured on both team delivery and individual performance.

Success in This Role

The ideal Lead will be able to:

Manage the Client + Own Requirements + Drive the Team + Personally Recruit + Deliver Onboardings

This role is best suited for a recruiter who wants to move into leadership without stepping away from hands-on recruitment.

Apply

If you are a hands-on recruitment leader who can manage clients, lead 46 recruiters, drive a minimum of 20 team onboardings, and contribute individually to additional closures, we'd like to hear from you.

Join IDES Labs and take ownership of recruitment delivery from client requirement to successful onboarding.