Associate Creative Recruiter | Tamatar Talent

Tamatar Talent; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tamatar Talent is seeking a resourceful recruiter to join our early-stage recruitment marketing firm in Bangalore. You will partner with founders and brand leaders to understand hiring needs, identify creative and marketing talent, and build a high-touch sourcing process.

You'll scout through LinkedIn, manage a fast-moving pipeline, and coach both clients and candidates toward a mutual yes. This role suits a fast learner who loves AI-enabled tools, sharp questions, and building lasting

Qualifications

• Experience hiring for creative roles is preferred.
• Strong consultative selling approach.
• Familiar with AI tools to accelerate recruiting.
• Excellent communication and networking skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Talk to founders and brand leaders directly to understand needs.
• Scout and reach out to candidates at volume, with high touch.
• Shortlist candidates and manage the pipeline with timely updates.
• Close the gap between client needs and candidate expectations.
• Schedule and prep for calls and interviews.
• Build processes for how the team recruits from the ground up.

Skills

Creative hiring mindset

Networking & sourcing

LinkedIn outreach

AI-enabled recruiting

Job description

Tamatar Talent helps mission-driven, boldly ambitious startups - the ones trying to solve problems that matter, the ones who should win - build their internal marketing, brand, and creative teams. We're an early-stage recruitment marketing firm, and we're building this from zero.

We're looking for someone to be that zero-to-one partner with us: someone who can recruit for creative and marketing roles with real taste, real hustle, and real judgment.

What you'll do

• Talk to founders and brand leaders directly - understand not just what they're asking for, but what they actually need, by asking the right questions and reading between the lines.
• Scout and reach out to candidates on LinkedIn, at volume - this is a manual, high-touch process, and the more organized you are (and the smarter you use AI to help), the further you'll get.
• Use your own judgment to call whether someone's a real fit - for the role and for the business behind it. You'll need to put yourself in the founder's shoes.
• Shortlist candidates, manage the pipeline, and keep communication instant - same-day replies to clients and candidates, always. No one waits two days to hear back from you.
• Close the gap between what a client wants and what a candidate wants - get both sides to yes, without overselling either one.
• Schedule and prep everyone for calls, interviews, and conversations - meticulously.
• Build relationships for the long term, not just the placement - a candidate who isn't right for one role today might be exactly right for something six months from now.
• Help build the processes and systems for how this team recruits - from the ground up, alongside us.

Who we're looking for

Taste for creative hiring. One of these helps a lot: you've worked inside a creative agency, you've been a creative yourself (editor, videographer, photographer, or similar - anyone with a real eye), you've run something creative of your own, or you've freelanced in a creative role.

A consultative seller, not a pusher. You can convince a brand why a candidate is right, and a candidate why a role is right - but only because you've actually figured out what they need. Sales, to us, means counseling: asking the right question at the right time, never talking someone into the wrong thing.

AI-fluent. You already use tools like Claude and Cowork to move faster, and you want to keep getting better at that.

A real networker. You're a people person who doesn't run out of energy after talking to 50 people in a day. You want to build a strong network across recruiters, marketers, and talent - and you understand LinkedIn well because you actually spend time on it.

Early in your career, but strong and ambitious. You want to build something real from the ground up, not just execute a job description.

Organized, prompt, and meticulous. You read between the lines in a conversation instead of just replying to it. You keep things in order because you genuinely care about being organized, not because someone's checking.

Curious about how businesses are built. You want to learn how teams, brands, and companies come together, and you see every client relationship as a chance to learn that.

A fast learner who solves before you elevate. In the age of AI, when you're stuck, your first call is to AI and to yourself, not to whoever on the team is closest - you don't disrupt the whole team's flow before you've tried to figure it out. You'll get plenty of feedback when you get things wrong, and that's fine - you're not expected to be scared of mistakes. Own them, be able to explain the call you made and why, and use that to grow faster.

The practical bits

• Location: Hybrid, based out of Bangalore.
• Engagement: Full-time preferred; open to the right person on a contract or freelance basis.
• Timeline: We're in no rush. We're looking for the right person, not the fastest hire.