Director, Talent Acquisition - India

Cornerstone OnDemand; United States; Remote; USD 9,600 - 14,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone OnDemand in India seeks a Director, Talent Acquisition to lead recruiting across the region and shape the talent strategy. You will transform TA into a strategic, tech-enabled function, partnering with senior leaders, building a high-performing team, and leveraging AI and analytics to improve time to hire and candidate experience.

This role reports to India leadership and collaborates with global teams to align workforce planning with business priorities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Talent Acquisition leadership experience within India.
• Experience leading technical and non-technical recruiting teams across functions.
• Strategic TA leader who links recruiting to workforce decisions.
• Strong knowledge of India technology and professional talent markets.
• Ability to scale recruiting models during high demand.
• Executive presence to influence senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Curiosity about AI, automation, data in recruiting.
• Experience with recruiting analytics and market intelligence.
• Experience leading executive-level searches in India.

Responsibilities

• Lead Talent Acquisition across India and execute a recruiting strategy for a strategic market.
• Develop and inspire a high-performing team of recruiters across technical and non-technical roles.
• Evolve India TA into a strategic advisory function with market intelligence and data insights.
• Partner with executives and HR leaders to translate workforce priorities into talent strategies.
• Build strong relationships with India leadership and advise on alternative solutions while collaborating.
• Develop flexible recruiting models to scale hiring capacity during demand surges.
• Leverage technology, automation, AI, data to improve recruiting processes and candidate experiences.
• Simplify processes to reduce administrative work and free recruiters for advisory work.
• Improve time-to-hire and quality-of-hire while maintaining candidate experience.
• Lead executive searches in India with market mapping and stakeholder management.
• Establish recruiting metrics and operating rhythms for visibility and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with broader HR to align onboarding, mobility, talent management and workforce planning.
• Experiment with new sourcing approaches and partnerships to compete for India talent.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within India TA.

Skills

Leadership

Talent Acquisition

Recruitment Strategy

Data Analytics

AI in Recruiting

Executive Search

Stakeholder Mgmt

Change Management

India Market

Tools

ATS Systems

Job description

India is Cornerstone’s largest and fastest-growing talent market and has become a critical talent hub for our global business. With offices in Pune, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, and teams representing every area of the company, India plays an increasingly important role in how we build the capabilities needed to grow and evolve our business.

We are looking for a Director, Talent Acquisition – India to lead our recruiting organization across the region and help shape the next chapter of our India talent strategy.

This is much more than a recruiting operations role. We are looking for a leader who can transform Talent Acquisition into a highly strategic, technology-enabled function that helps the business make better talent decisions, access new talent pools, scale quickly when demand increases, and consistently attract exceptional talent.

You will lead a talented team of recruiters supporting both technical and non-technical hiring while serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across India and globally. The right person will combine strategic thinking with a strong bias for action – someone who is comfortable challenging conventional thinking while also rolling up their sleeves to find practical ways to make things happen.

In this role you will....

• Lead Talent Acquisition across India, developing and executing a recruiting strategy that supports one of Cornerstone's largest and most strategically important talent markets.
• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of recruiters supporting a diverse portfolio of technical and non-technical hiring across multiple functions and levels.
• Evolve the India TA organization from a primarily transactional recruiting function into a strategic talent advisory team that brings market intelligence, data, insights, and creative solutions to business leaders.
• Partner closely with executives, business leaders, People Business Partners, and other HR leaders to understand workforce priorities and translate them into effective talent strategies.
• Build strong relationships with India leadership and become a trusted advisor who can challenge assumptions, push back constructively, and offer alternative solutions while maintaining a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach.
• Develop flexible recruiting models that allow Cornerstone to scale hiring capacity up or down quickly during periods of increased demand without sacrificing candidate quality or experience.
• Use technology, automation, AI, data, and analytics to improve recruiting processes and create better experiences for candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters.
• Identify opportunities to simplify recruiting processes, eliminate unnecessary administrative work, and allow recruiters to spend more time advising the business and engaging talent.
• Build recruiting strategies that improve time to hire and quality of hire while maintaining a high bar for candidate and hiring-manager experience.
• Bring deep knowledge of the India talent market and use external market intelligence to help leaders understand talent availability, competitive dynamics, compensation trends, location strategies, and alternative talent pools.
• Lead and personally support executive and senior-level searches in India when needed, including talent mapping, market outreach, candidate assessment, and executive stakeholder management.
• Establish meaningful recruiting metrics and operating rhythms that provide visibility into performance, identify challenges early, and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner across HR to improve broader people processes and ensure recruiting connects effectively with workforce planning, onboarding, internal mobility, talent management, and the overall employee experience.
• Experiment with new recruiting approaches, technologies, partnerships, and talent sources that can help Cornerstone compete more effectively for talent across India.
• Build a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the India Talent Acquisition team.

You've got what it takes if you have...

• 8+ years of Talent Acquisition leadership experience within India, ideally supporting a large, global technology or multinational organization.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing recruiting teams across both technical and non-technical functions.
• A strategic talent leader who understands that great recruiting goes beyond filling requisitions and can demonstrate how TA can influence workforce and business decisions.
• Strong knowledge of the India technology and professional talent markets, including experience recruiting across major talent hubs.
• Demonstrated ability to build recruiting models and strategies that can scale rapidly during periods of high hiring demand.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders, navigate competing priorities, and constructively challenge stakeholders when appropriate.
• A highly collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset — someone who doesn't stop at identifying why something cannot be done but works with partners to determine how we can make it work.
• Strong technical aptitude and genuine curiosity about how AI, automation, recruiting technology, and data can improve the way talent organizations operate.
• Experience using recruiting analytics and market intelligence to identify opportunities, influence decisions, and improve recruiting outcomes.
• Experience leading or personally executing executive-level searches in the India market.
• Strong understanding of recruiting operations, processes, systems, and candidate experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change and transform recruiting teams, processes, or operating models.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and relationship-building skills with the ability to work effectively across India and global teams.