Senior Recruiting Specialist

Qualys; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualys in India is seeking a Sr Recruiting Specialist to join our Talent Acquisition team and lead hiring across critical technology functions. This hands-on role focuses on building pipelines from scratch, influencing senior managers, and closing top candidates with market intelligence and creative sourcing.

You will own end-to-end searches across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Big Data, Cloud, and Product, delivering high-quality candidates and an exceptional experience in a fast-growing

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical recruiting experience in SaaS/cloud/enterprise tech.
• Proven track record closing senior-level technology roles.
• Strong sourcing and candidate assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting for complex and business-critical technology roles across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Big Data, Cloud, Product, Business Applications, and Technical Support.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand the technology, team, and business problem behind each role and build targeted recruiting strategies.
• Drive hands-on sourcing through LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, referrals, networking, market research, and competitive intelligence.
• Build and maintain high-quality talent pipelines for immediate and future hiring needs.
• Assess candidates for technical capability, career trajectory, motivation, and overall fit.
• Advise hiring managers on talent availability, compensation, and hiring strategy.

Skills

Technical recruiting

SaaS

Senior hiring

Talent mapping

LinkedIn sourcing

Candidate assessment

Negotiation

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

AI recruiting tools

Job description

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

About Qualys

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations.

Role: Sr Recruiting Specialist

About the role

Qualys is looking for a hands-on, high-impact Sr. Recruiting Specialist to join our Talent Acquisition team and drive hiring across critical technology functions. This role is for a recruiter who can speak the language of technology, build talent pipelines from scratch, influence senior hiring managers, and close highly competitive candidates. You will own complex searches end-to-end and bring strong market intelligence, creative sourcing, and a high bar for talent to every hire.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting for complex and business-critical technology roles across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Big Data, Cloud, Product, Business Applications, and Technical Support.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand the technology, team, and business problem behind each role and build targeted recruiting strategies.
• Drive hands-on, proactive sourcing through LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, referrals, networking, market research, and competitive intelligence.
• Build and maintain high-quality talent pipelines for both immediate and future hiring needs.
• Assess candidates for technical capability, career trajectory, motivation, and overall fit.
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on talent availability, market trends, compensation, competitive landscape, and hiring strategy.
• Own candidate engagement and offer closure, effectively managing competing offers, counteroffers, compensation expectations, and notice periods.
• Identify and remove hiring bottlenecks, with strong focus on quality of hire, funnel conversion, time-to-fill, and aging requisitions.
• Leverage AI and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, talent intelligence, screening, and recruiting productivity.
• Represent Qualys as an employer brand ambassador and deliver a differentiated candidate experience.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of technical recruiting experience, preferably within SaaS, cybersecurity, cloud, or enterprise technology.
• Proven track record of independently closing complex, niche, and senior-level technology roles.
• Strong technical understanding across areas such as Software Engineering, Big Data, AI/ML, Cloud, Cybersecurity, QA, and Product.
• Exceptional direct sourcing and talent-mapping capability; comfortable building pipelines where talent is scarce.
• Strong candidate assessment skills with the ability to distinguish true technical depth from keyword-based experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior hiring managers and technical leaders.
• Strong negotiation and candidate-closing skills.
• Data-driven approach with understanding of recruiting funnel metrics and hiring performance.
• Highly organized, agile, self-driven, and comfortable operating in a high-growth, high-accountability environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience hiring for cybersecurity, Big Data, AI/ML, cloud, or other highly specialized technology domains.
• Experience supporting global hiring across India and the US.
• Experience using AI-powered recruiting tools and talent intelligence platforms.
• Strong technology talent network and knowledge of the competitive SaaS talent market.
• Experience improving recruiting processes, hiring-manager effectiveness, and candidate experience.