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