Senior Technical Recruiter

Lenskart.com; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenskart is hiring a Senior Recruiter for Tech, Product and Leadership roles to own end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from intake to onboarding. You will build talent pipelines using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and other channels, and partner with senior stakeholders on leadership hiring across multiple geographies.

Responsibilities include conducting intake sessions, driving pipeline reviews, and ensuring quality-of-hire with data-backed recommendations and timely feedback.

Qualifications

• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for Tech, Product, Leadership and select Non-Tech roles.
• Hire across levels in Tech and Product, including SDE IIII, Staff/Principal Engineers, Data Scientists, QA/SDET, DevOps/SRE, PMs, Product Designers/UX, Analytics.
• Drive hiring for Leadership and Senior Management roles across Technology, Product and Business functions.
• Support Non-Tech hiring for Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain & Operations, HR, Merchandising and other corporate functions.
• Consistently meet and exceed TAT, offer-to-join and quality-of-hire targets.
• Build proactive talent pipelines via LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, job boards, communities, referrals and direct outreach.
• Conduct talent mapping for critical roles including AI/ML, Computer Vision, hardware-software products.

Responsibilities

• Conduct intake sessions with hiring managers to define role scorecards and interview plans.
• Drive pipeline reviews and provide data-backed recommendations on availability, compensation and sourcing.
• Partner with senior stakeholders on leadership hiring, including confidential mandates and executive search collaboration.
• Coach interviewers on structured, competency-based interviewing and ensure timely, quality feedback.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment

Sourcing excellence

Stakeholder management

Leadership hiring

Interviewing

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

Boolean search

ATS platforms

Job description

• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for Tech, Product, Leadership and select Non-Tech roles from intake and sourcing to screening, interviews, offer negotiation, closure and onboarding handover.
• Hire across levels in Tech and Product, including:
• SDE IIII
• Staff / Principal Engineers
• Data Scientists
• QA / SDET
• DevOps / SRE
• Product Managers
• Product Designers / UX
• Analytics roles
• Drive hiring for Leadership and Senior Management roles, including Directors, Heads of Function, VPs and other L-level leaders across Technology, Product and Business functions.
• Support hiring for select Non-Tech functions such as Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain & Operations, HR, Category / Merchandising and other corporate functions, based on business requirements.
• Consistently meet and exceed TAT, offer-to-join and quality-of-hire targets.
• Build proactive talent pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, job boards, communities, referrals and direct outreach, rather than relying primarily on inbound applications.
• Conduct talent mapping for critical and niche roles such as Computer Vision, ML, Consumer Electronics, Smart Wearables Product Managers and Senior Leadership positions.
• Develop and maintain target-company lists for strategic and niche hiring.
• Track talent-market trends, compensation benchmarks and competitor movements across Tech and Non-Tech functions.

Business Partnership

• Conduct structured intake sessions with hiring managers to define role scorecards, must-haves, competencies and interview plans.
• Drive regular pipeline reviews and provide data-backed recommendations on talent availability, feasibility, compensation and sourcing strategy.
• Partner with senior stakeholders on leadership hiring, including confidential mandates and collaboration with executive search firms.
• Coach interviewers on structured, competency-based interviewing and ensure timely, quality feedback.

Candidate Experience & Employer Brand

• Deliver a fast, transparent and respectful candidate experience throughout the hiring journey.
• Effectively position and sell the Lenskart story, including the scale of problems we solve, career opportunities and growth potential.
• Contribute to employer branding initiatives including hackathons, campus engagements, community events, engineering blogs and employee referral drives.

Preferred candidate profile

• 2–10 years of recruitment experience, with at least 2 years focused primarily on Technology and/or Product hiring.
• Proven track record of closing roles across multiple tech functions, including Engineering, Data/ML and Product, preferably within a product company, startup, e-commerce or consumer-internet environment.
• Experience in leadership and senior-level hiring, including Engineering Managers, Directors and Heads of Product/Functions.
• Exposure to Non-Tech hiring across business and corporate functions.
• Strong technical understanding with the ability to differentiate Backend, Full-Stack and other technology profiles, understand tech stacks and assess candidate fit credibly.
• Strong hands-on sourcing expertise across LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search and GitHub, with proven experience building pipelines for niche and hard-to-hire roles.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to challenge unrealistic requirements and provide data-backed recommendations.
• Strong offer negotiation and closure skills, including managing counter-offers, notice periods and buy-out discussions.

Good to Have

• Experience managing confidential leadership searches and hiring Director, VP and Head-level positions.
• Exposure to hiring across AI/ML, Computer Vision and Hardware-Software product teams.
• Experience hiring for Non-Tech functions such as Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, HR and Merchandising.
• Experience with ATS platforms and recruitment analytics, including Excel/Sheets and dashboards.
• Prior experience working with executive search firms and recruitment agencies.
• Experience managing multi-geography hiring across India, Southeast Asia and Europe.