About the role
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.
Requirements
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.