HR Recruiter(Talent Acquisition Specialist)

HR Recruiter (Talent Acquisition Specialist)

Location

Calicut (Kozhikode), Kerala — On-site

Experience

2 – 3 years

Compensation

₹4 – ₹4.8 LPA

Employment Type

Full-time, Permanent

Reports To

CEO (Vinoop Thayatt)

About Mailercloud

Mailercloud is a global email marketing and deliverability SaaS company building tools that help thousands of businesses worldwide send better email at scale. We're headquartered in London, UK, with offices in Calicut and Bangalore — a fast-growing, profitable company with a strong product, a passionate customer base, and big ambitions for the year ahead.

Our India team is growing — and we're looking for a recruiter who can help us bring in the right people, faster. This role is built around one mandate: hire well.

The Role

We're hiring a Specialist Recruiter to own end-to-end recruitment for our India operations. This is a focused, individual-contributor role — your job is to source, screen, and close the right candidates for engineering, product, sales, customer success, and operations roles.

This is not a generalist HR role. Day-to-day HR operations (employee lifecycle, Keka admin, IT assets, engagement execution) are handled by our HR Operations team. You stay focused on hiring — and you'll report directly to the CEO.

What You'll Own

Sourcing & Pipeline Building

• Build candidate pipelines for both IT roles (engineers, product, design) and non-IT roles (sales, marketing, customer success, operations) using Naukri, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, hirist, and direct outreach
• Develop and maintain a strong network across Kerala's IT ecosystem (Cyberpark Calicut, Infopark Kochi) and pan-India tech communities
• Use Boolean search, X-Ray search, referral networks, and creative sourcing to find strong passive candidates

Screening & Selection

• Conduct first-round HR interviews — evaluate culture fit, communication, motivation, and basic role alignment
• Coordinate technical interview panels with hiring managers; manage interview logistics end-to-end
• Run candidate assessments, reference checks, and background verifications

Stakeholder & Hiring Manager Partnership

• Partner with hiring managers to finalize JDs, interview rubrics, and realistic hiring timelines
• Publish a weekly hiring update for the CEO: open roles, pipeline depth, bottlenecks, time-to-fill
• Be the single point of contact for candidates throughout the hiring journey — strong candidate experience is non-negotiable

Offer Rollout & Closing

• Negotiate offers within approved compensation bands; manage offer rollout, document collection, and pre-onboarding handoff to HR Operations
• Track joiner-conversion ratios and reduce drop-off between offer and join-date

Reporting & Process Improvement

• Maintain a clean candidate tracker / ATS in Keka — every candidate, every stage, current
• Publish a weekly recruitment dashboard: open roles, pipeline depth, time-to-fill, offer-to-join ratio, source effectiveness
• Continuously refine sourcing channels, JD quality, and the interview process to improve hiring outcomes

Required Qualifications

• 2–3 years of end-to-end recruitment experience in an IT, SaaS, or product technology company
• Proven ability to source for technical roles — must be comfortable hiring software developers, designers, and product managers
• Strong working knowledge of Naukri, LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, and at least one ATS (Keka, Zoho Recruit, Greenhouse, or similar)
• Excellent communication in English (Malayalam is a plus for local candidate handling)
• Strong negotiation, candidate-handling, and stakeholder-management skills
• Comfortable working independently and reporting directly to the CEO
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline; MBA / PGDM in HR is a plus but not required

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Prior experience hiring for an IT/SaaS company with global operations (Cyberpark, Infopark, or remote-first)
• Track record hiring for niche tech roles — DevOps, AI/ML, Backend, Senior Engineers, Product Managers
• Exposure to global hiring (UK / US / Europe) — we hire across our London, Calicut, and Bangalore offices
• Familiarity with employer branding, careers-page content, and recruitment marketing
• Recruitment certifications (LinkedIn Recruiter, AIRS, SHRM, or equivalent)

What We Offer

• Compensation: ₹4 – ₹4.8 LPA, based on experience and IT recruitment background
• Direct exposure to the CEO — your work directly impacts company growth, not buried under layers of management
• Clear career path as Mailercloud scales — this is a foundational hire, not a placeholder
• Modern SaaS environment — work alongside a product used by thousands of businesses globally
• Standard benefits — Paid leave, statutory benefits (PF, ESI, Gratuity), wellness initiatives
• Permanent, full-time role based out of our Calicut (Kozhikode) office

How to Apply

Send your CV along with a short note (3–5 sentences) on your most successful hire to date — what role, how long it took to fill, and what made it work — to careers@mailercloud.com.

Subject line: "HR Recruiter — Calicut — [Your Name]"