Talent Acquisition, Operations Specialist
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Talent Acquisition & Operations Specialist building hiring and people operations for Pulse iD, a regional fintech platform. Managing full-cycle recruitment and HR operations across APAC and the Middle East.
Responsibilities:
- Own full-cycle recruitment, including intake with hiring managers, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offers, and onboarding handover
- Hire across APAC and the Middle East, adapting to local talent pools, compensation norms, notice periods, and work permit considerations
- Recruit for fintech, product, engineering, risk, compliance, payments, operations, marketing, affiliate, performance marketing, partnership, media buying, SEO, and CRM roles
- Source passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, communities, job boards, and targeted headhunting
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill roles
- Establish hiring processes, including job descriptions, interview structures, scorecards, and an ATS
- Advise hiring managers on market availability, salary benchmarks, and hiring timelines
- Manage offers and negotiations and keep candidates engaged through their start date
- Track and report hiring metrics such as time-to-hire, source effectiveness, and offer acceptance rate
- Strengthen the employer brand and manage external agencies where needed
- Run onboarding and offboarding end to end, including offer letters, contracts, documentation, equipment, access, and first-week plans
- Maintain accurate employee records in the HRIS and keep people data and documents organized and compliant
- Coordinate with finance and EOR or payroll partners on monthly payroll inputs, joiners, leavers, and changes across countries
- Support background checks, reference checks, and pre-employment verification
- Draft, update, and roll out HR policies and the employee handbook
- Handle day-to-day employee queries on leave, benefits, policies, and paperwork
- Support probation reviews, performance-cycle logistics, and employee engagement initiatives
- Manage HR and recruitment vendors, tools, and subscriptions and automate repetitive administration
Requirements:
- 3–5 years of hands-on, full-cycle talent acquisition experience
- Proven experience hiring for startups or high-growth companies, ideally as a solo or small-team recruiter
- Track record of hiring for fintech roles
- Experience hiring for marketing and affiliate businesses, including performance marketing and affiliate or partnership roles
- Hands-on experience hiring across APAC and the Middle East, with an understanding of regional talent markets and compensation
- Practical HR or people operations experience: onboarding, documentation, HRIS, and payroll coordination
- Strong sourcing skills, especially headhunting passive candidates
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, comfortable juggling hiring and admin work in parallel
- Comfort working independently and remotely, with strong ownership and prioritization
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Confident stakeholder management with senior leaders
- Working knowledge of at least one ATS, one HRIS, and LinkedIn Recruiter
- Experience setting up a recruitment or people function, ATS, or HRIS from scratch
- Familiarity with payments, lending, or other regulated industries
- Experience working with Employer of Record (EOR) providers or multi-country payroll
- Exposure to employer branding or recruitment marketing
- Experience with hiring data dashboards and reporting
- Additional languages relevant to APAC or the Middle East (e.g. Arabic, Bahasa, Thai, Vietnamese)
Benefits:
- Fully remote work from anywhere in India
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Leave
- Learning budget
- Equipment
- Real ownership: build Pulse's hiring and people operations from the ground up
- Exposure to multiple markets across APAC and the Middle East
- Direct access to founders and leadership
- Fast decisions and little bureaucracy














