Global Talent Lead (Recruiter)

SaxeCap; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SaxeCap is hiring a Global Talent Lead based in New Delhi to own recruiting across the organization. You will partner with the founder and leadership to define roles, build pipelines, and run end-to-end processes across multiple geographies, including the US, UK, Europe, and Asia.

The role requires shipping real AI, deals, or businesses, and the ability to work across time zones. You will recruit engineers, data scientists, investment professionals, and operations roles, while building the

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of recruiting experience in-house at a high-growth tech, financial services, consulting, or executive-search firm.
• Experience recruiting senior and specialized profiles across multiple countries.
• Understanding compensation benchmarking, EOR, contractor arrangements, and work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Own full-lifecycle recruiting across SaxeCap geographies and functions.
• Source top AI labs, PE funds, investment banks, and elite programs.
• Manage global searches, build process, and oversee ATS and metrics.
• Design structured interviews, case studies, and work-trial assessments.
• Support India team with campus and lateral hiring from top institutions.

Skills

Full lifecycle recruiting

Global hiring

Sourcing top talent

Interview design

Employer branding

ATS and data reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

SaxeCap is the premier AI transformation and investment platform in private equity. We pioneered the concept of buying out traditional businesses and transforming them with AI in 2018, and today we are the go-to AI transformation partner for 70+ PE firms globally, including 9 of the 10 largest by AUM as well as the world's leading sovereign wealth funds. We've transformed 200+ businesses across healthcare services, business services, financial services, software, consumer, and more, driving billions of dollars of enterprise value expansion along the way.

We operate at the intersection of three businesses: (1) a private equity investment arm, (2) an in-house AI transformation firm that designs and deploys bespoke GenAI, ML, and automation solutions, and (3) a suite of proprietary software products. Our team comes from places like Google, Palantir, Meta, Surge AI, Blackstone, TPG, Cerberus, Millennium, Balyasny, McKinsey, Bain, Oliver Wyman, MIT, Stanford, IIT, GSB, HBS, and Wharton. Our leadership includes early investors in OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, SpaceX, Neuralink, Mercor, Lambda Labs, etc. But what makes our team exceptional isn't where they came from or what they've invested in, it's what they ship. We are builders.

About the Role

We are hiring a Global Talent Lead, based in New Delhi, to own recruiting across SaxeCap's entire organization. We have established teams in North America, South America, India, and the United Kingdom, and we are now expanding into Japan, Singapore, Germany, and France. Every one of those teams is hiring, and the bar is the same everywhere: people who have shipped real AI, underwritten real deals, or run real businesses, and who can do more than one of those things at once.

This is a full-stack recruiting role, not a sourcing seat. You will partner directly with our founder and senior leadership to define what great looks like for each role, build the pipeline, run the process end to end, and close the candidates we want. You will recruit across a wide range of profiles: forward deployed AI engineers and data scientists, AI transformation leads and vice presidents, private equity investment professionals, and the operations and support roles that keep a lean global firm running. You will work across time zones and cultures every day, and you will be the first impression most future SaxeCap team members have of the firm.

You will also build the recruiting function itself: the systems, the process, the employer brand, the data. SaxeCap is growing quickly and recruiting is the constraint on that growth. Your job is to remove it.

What You Will Do

• Own the search. Run full-lifecycle recruiting for roles across all SaxeCap geographies and functions: role definition with hiring leaders, sourcing strategy, outreach, screening, interview coordination, offer construction, negotiation, and close.
• Source at the top of the market. Build pipelines of exceptional candidates from the places our team comes from (top AI labs and technology companies, leading PE funds and investment banks, MBB consulting, elite engineering and business programs) and from the places we have not looked yet. Direct sourcing is the core of this role; we are not an agency-dependent firm.
• Recruit globally. Manage searches simultaneously in the US, UK, India, continental Europe, and Asia, and understand the compensation norms, employment structures (including EOR arrangements), visa constraints, and cultural expectations in each market well enough to advise hiring leaders.
• Run a rigorous process. Design and administer structured interviews, case studies, and technical and work-trial assessments that predict performance in our environment, and keep the process fast without lowering the bar.
• Build the function. Stand up and maintain our ATS and recruiting data, define our hiring playbooks and scorecards, shape our employer brand and job postings, manage external search partners where we use them, and report on pipeline health and hiring velocity to leadership.
• Support the India team. Serve as the on-the-ground talent partner for our growing India engineering and operations team in New Delhi, including campus and lateral hiring from top Indian institutions.

About You

You are an experienced recruiter who has hired for hard roles at demanding organizations, and you want to own the whole function at a firm where talent is the product. You are comfortable recruiting an ML engineer in the morning, a private equity principal in the afternoon, and a transformation lead in Tokyo that night, and you can speak credibly to all three. Specifically:

• 5 to 10 years of recruiting experience, with meaningful time in-house at a high-growth technology company, a financial services or investment firm, a top consulting firm, or a leading executive search firm; experience across more than one of these is a strong plus
• You have recruited senior and specialized profiles: engineers and data scientists, investment professionals, consultants, or executives, and you can assess technical and commercial talent beyond keyword matching
• You have run searches across multiple countries and understand the practical mechanics of global hiring, including compensation benchmarking, employer-of-record and contractor arrangements, and work authorization
• You are an exceptional direct sourcer, with a track record of finding and closing candidates who were not looking, and a point of view on how to use AI tools to do this better
• You have built or significantly improved a recruiting process, including ATS implementation, structured interviewing, scorecards, and hiring analytics
• You write and speak English at a native professional level and are comfortable representing the firm to candidates from Silicon Valley to Singapore; additional languages are a plus
• You are based in New Delhi or willing to relocate, and you can work flexible hours to overlap with US, UK, and Asia-Pacific time zones
• You are intellectually curious about AI and private equity and can hold a credible conversation about what SaxeCap does and why it matters, because that is how you will close the best candidates
• Bachelor's degree from a top-tier institution

What Sets the Best Candidates Apart

The people who excel in this role treat recruiting as a craft and a business function, not an administrative one. The strongest signals we look for:

• You have closed people others could not. You have convinced a candidate with competing offers from well-known firms to join a smaller, less famous one because you understood what they actually wanted and could show them why they would find it here.
• Judgment, not just process. You form independent views on candidates and are willing to tell a hiring leader when their favorite is wrong, or when the one they passed on is the one to hire.
• Builder DNA. You have stood up a recruiting function, a new market, or a new hiring program from scratch, and you are energized rather than frustrated by the absence of a playbook.
• Global fluency. You have worked across cultures and time zones and you understand that a strong candidate experience looks different in Mumbai, Munich, and Manhattan.
• Speed with a high bar. You know that in a competitive talent market speed wins, and you have run processes that move fast without compromising on quality.

Compensation & Growth

SaxeCap offers highly competitive compensation. You will work directly with our founder and senior leadership from day one, and you will have ownership over the function that determines how fast and how well the firm grows. The team is lean by design, there are no layers between you and impact, and as SaxeCap scales, this role is positioned to lead a global talent organization.