Recruiting Team Lead

Role Overview Tallento.ai is hiring a Recruitment Team Lead who can own both individual closures and team performance. This role is for a hands-on recruitment leader who can translate hiring requirements into daily execution, coach recruiters, maintain ATS discipline, remove bottlenecks, and deliver predictable joinings within defined turnaround times. This is not a coordination-only role. The Team Lead will be accountable for sourcing quality, recruiter productivity, interview conversion, candidate follow-up, offer-to-joining conversion, reporting accuracy, and overall team closures. Key Responsibilities Lead day-to-day recruitment execution for assigned clients, roles and hiring pods. Translate open positions into recruiter-wise priorities, daily targets and closure plans. Handle end-to-end recruitment personally for critical, senior or difficult positions. Review sourcing quality, screening notes and candidate relevance before client submission. Track calls, meaningful conversations, profiles sourced, screened profiles, submissions, interviews, selections, offers and joinings. Ensure every candidate movement is updated correctly in the ATS/CRM with notes, remarks and next actions. Conduct daily huddles, workload allocation, pipeline reviews and end-of-day performance checks. Coach recruiters on sourcing strategy, screening, objection handling, salary discussions and candidate conversion. Identify weak funnels early — poor sourcing, low interview attendance, low selection ratio, offer dropouts or delayed follow-ups — and correct them quickly. Coordinate closely with operations, client relationship and hiring managers to keep requirements moving. Maintain strong candidate engagement from first call through joining to reduce no-shows, backouts and offer drops. Build reusable talent pipelines for recurring education, EdTech, school, coaching, sales and operations requirements. Escalate genuine client-side or candidate-side blockers with clear data instead of allowing positions to remain stagnant. Maintain professional candidate experience while keeping a strong closure-focused approach. Leadership & Team Management Set clear expectations for each recruiter and monitor performance against daily, weekly and monthly targets. Conduct recruiter call reviews, profile-quality checks and conversion analysis. Support underperforming team members with specific action plans and closely track improvement. Recognise high performers and replicate their sourcing and conversion practices across the team. Ensure discipline around attendance, reporting, follow-ups, ATS updates and client commitments. Create a culture where recruiters own outcomes rather than only activity counts. Performance Metrics / KPIs Team and individual successful joinings. Quality profiles submitted per active requirement. Submission-to-interview and interview-to-selection conversion. Offer-to-joining conversion and candidate dropout rate. Recruitment turnaround time (TAT) and ageing of open positions. Recruiter productivity: calls, meaningful conversations, screened profiles and active pipelines.  ATS/CRM accuracy, follow-up hygiene and reporting discipline. Client requirement coverage and closure predictability. Required Skills & Experience 4–7 years of hands-on recruitment experience with at least some experience guiding or leading recruiters. Strong sourcing ability across job portals, databases, LinkedIn, referrals, social media, WhatsApp and direct calling. Strong candidate screening, negotiation and follow-up skills. Ability to manage multiple requirements and priorities without losing execution control. Strong understanding of recruitment funnels and conversion metrics. Comfortable working in a target-driven, high-accountability environment. Good command over Excel / Google Sheets and ATS / CRM systems. Strong communication, problem-solving, ownership and people-management skills. Preferred Background Education / EdTech recruitment. IIT-JEE / NEET coaching industry hiring. Schools / colleges / academic hiring. Recruitment consultancy, RPO or high-volume recruitment. Sales, telesales or operations hiring in addition to academic hiring. Who Should Apply? Recruiters who have already moved beyond individual sourcing and can manage team output. People who understand that a Team Lead is accountable for closures, not only distributing requirements. Candidates comfortable taking ownership of difficult positions and stepping into execution when the team is stuck. Leaders who can use data, daily reviews and coaching to improve recruiter performance.