Talent Acquisition Associate - Arctic Engine

apna; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 253,890 - 304,110; Part time

Job summary

Arctic Engines in Bengaluru is hiring a Talent Acquisition Associate to own end-to-end hiring across the company. You will build and run hiring pipelines, source and screen candidates, and coordinate interviews with internal stakeholders.

This six-month role offers a stipend of 25k per month and six days per week, with one work-from-home day. Fresh graduates welcome; you will gain broad exposure to recruiting, ops, and GTM functions with potential for a full-time offer.

Qualifications

• Fresher or 0–1 years experience, any degree.
• High ownership mindset; doesn't need hand-holding once given a task.
• Strong written and verbal communication (English required, Hindi preferred).
• Based in or willing to relocate to Bengaluru; open to a 6-day work week with 1 WFH day.
• Comfortable with spreadsheets, forms, and fast-paced coordination.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage hiring pipelines across multiple concurrent roles as they come up.
• Source and screen candidates via forms, referrals, and job boards.
• Draft and send candidate communication (outreach, screening, offers, rejections).
• Coordinate interviews and assessments with internal stakeholders.
• Track pipeline status and maintain hiring trackers/spreadsheets.
• Support onboarding coordination for new hires.
• Take on ad hoc ops and GTM tasks as they come up; role will expand with business needs.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Communication

Interview coordination

Tools

Spreadsheets

Forms

Job description

Overview

Arctic Engines is an enterprise-grade AI human data operations company specializing in high-quality training data, RLHF, and human feedback pipelines for frontier AI models. We are part of the Apna Group, backed by investors including Lightspeed, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Peak XV, and others. With access to Apna's 60M+ workforce, we deliver high-quality training data at scale and speed.

The role

We're hiring a Talent Acquisition Associate to own end-to-end hiring across the company. This is a high-ownership, high-variety role, not a narrow recruiting function. You'll build and run hiring pipelines across the roles the business needs, while handling candidate communication, screening, and coordination.

Location: Bangalore (Work from Office - Domlur | 6 days/week)

Requirement: 1

Stipend: 25k per month

Duration: 6 months

What you\'ll do

• Build and manage hiring pipelines across multiple concurrent roles as they come up
• Source and screen candidates via Tally forms, referrals, and job boards
• Draft and send candidate communication (outreach, screening, offers, rejections)
• Coordinate interviews and assessments with internal stakeholders
• Track pipeline status and maintain hiring trackers/spreadsheets
• Support onboarding coordination for new hires
• Take on ad hoc ops and GTM tasks as they come up. This role is dynamic and will expand based on what the business needs

What we\'re looking for

• Fresher or 0–1 years experience, any degree
• High ownership mindset; doesn\'t need hand-holding once given a task
• Strong written and verbal communication (English required, Hindi preferred)
• Based in or willing to relocate to Bengaluru; open to a 6-day work week with 1 WFH day
• Comfortable with spreadsheets, forms, and fast-paced coordination
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment

What you get

• Direct exposure to founding team, GTM, and ops functions at a fast-growing AI company
• Full autonomy and decision-making as you build trust and prove yourself
• Real ownership from day one, not a shadow/assist role
• A clear path to eventually owning all of Talent Acquisition for Arctic Engines
• Steep learning curve across recruiting, ops, and GTM in your first year
• Clear path to a full-time offer (PPO) based on performance over the 6-month period