Talent Acquisition Manager

As the Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will lead a team of recruiters responsible for hiring exceptional talent across India while partnering closely with business leaders around the globe. You'll be responsible for developing recruiting strategies, coaching recruiters, improving recruiting operations, and ensuring an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience. This is an exciting opportunity to build a high-performing recruiting organisation that directly supports Redwood's continued expansion in Hyderabad.

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Leadership:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners.
• Establish recruiting goals, performance metrics, and team development plans.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with the Hyderabad Site Leader and VP, Global Talent Acquisition to scale recruiting efforts in India.

Recruiting Strategy:

• Develop hiring strategies to support rapid growth across Engineering, Product Management, Customer Success, Professional Services, Sales, and Corporate Functions.
• Partner with senior leaders to understand workforce plans and proactively build talent pipelines.
• Drive sourcing strategies for difficult-to-fill technical and leadership positions.
• Develop and manage the recruiting strategy and partnership with external RPO providers, ensuring delivery quality, hiring velocity, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with Redwood's hiring goals.
• Monitor market trends, competitor hiring activity, and compensation insights.

Delivery and Employer Brand:

• Help establish Redwood as an employer of choice within the Hyderabad technology market.
• Personally lead recruiting efforts for senior-level, leadership, and other business-critical positions.
• Represent Redwood at university events, career fairs, networking events, and industry conferences.
• Lead and participate in on-site hiring drives, walk-in events, and recruiting campaigns to support high-volume hiring initiatives.

Stakeholder Partnership:

• Coach leaders on interviewing, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions.
• Build strong relationships with HR, Finance, and business leadership to ensure hiring plans align with company priorities.
• Develop and maintain recruiting dashboards that provide leaders with visibility into hiring progress, pipeline health, key performance metrics, and actionable recommendations to continuously improve recruiting outcomes.

Recruiting Operations:

• Drive operational excellence throughout the recruiting process.
• Ensure recruiting data integrity within the ATS.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of Talent Acquisition experience with at least 3 years leading recruiters.
• Experience hiring technical talent including Software Engineering, Product Management, Cloud, DevOps, QA, or Enterprise Software professionals.
• Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing recruiting teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Experience recruiting in a fast-paced, high-growth technology company
• Experience managing RPO partners or external recruiting vendors.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using recruiting metrics to drive decisions.
• Experience with modern ATS platforms (Greenhouse preferred) and recruiting technologies.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting global organisations.
• Experience scaling recruiting organisations during periods of rapid growth.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled recruiting tools and recruiting automation.
• Experience leading campus recruiting initiatives.
• Knowledge of employment practices within India.