Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition

Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition

Location: Bangalore

About the Team

The Human Resources and People Strategy team at Navi manages the entire employee lifecycle, from talent acquisition and HR operations to employee engagement and development. They partner closely with both tech and non-tech business teams to design and implement strategies that attract, retain, and develop top talent, ensuring a thriving, high-performance organizational culture.

About the Role

As an Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition, you will work as an individual contributor responsible for delivering on critical hiring needs. The role requires an end to end recruitment, problem-solving recruitment challenges, and acting as a trusted partner to business stakeholders. Success in this role comes from a balance of execution excellence, sharp business acumen, and the ability to communicate effectively with candidates and leaders alike.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full recruitment cycle:

Drive end-to-end hiring - from posting JDs and sourcing to conducting interviews, facilitating debriefs, and managing offer negotiations.

• Advanced Sourcing \& Pipeline Building:

Proactively source high-quality talent using job portals, LinkedIn, networking, referrals, and headhunting. Build strong talent pipelines for critical and future roles.

• Stakeholder Management:

Act as a trusted recruitment partner for business and functional leaders. Work closely with them to understand workforce needs, advise on hiring strategies, and ensure alignment with business goals.

• Mentorship and Team Supervision:

Serve as a functional guide and mentor to junior recruiters. Provide peer supervision, share recruitment best practices, and help unblock sourcing challenges across the broader team as needed.

• Candidate Experience Leadership:

Ensure a seamless, transparent, and engaging experience for candidates, serving as their single point of contact throughout the hiring process.

• Recruitment Analytics \& Reporting:

Manage ATS and recruitment trackers, generate dashboards, and provide insights to improve sourcing effectiveness and reduce TAT.

• Market Intelligence:

Stay updated with industry talent trends, competitor hiring strategies and compensation benchmarks to provide data-driven insights to stakeholders.

• Onboarding Oversight:

Oversee pre-joining formalities, background verification, and ensure smooth transition and onboarding for new hires.

• Process Improvement:

Contribute to enhancing recruitment processes, employer branding, and candidate engagement initiatives. Mentor junior recruiters where required.

Must Haves

• Education:

Graduate or Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.

• Technical Skills:

Proficiency in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), advanced sourcing strategies, recruitment analytics, and candidate data management.

• Soft Skills:

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders, consultative approach, strong organizational abilities, high attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

• Mindset:

Proactive and ownership-driven, data-informed, adaptable to changing business needs, with high work ethics and eagerness to stay updated with evolving talent trends.

• Experience:

3\+ years of proven experience in managing end-to-end recruitment, with a demonstrated aptitude for or prior experience in mentoring, guiding, or supervising peers/junior recruiters, ideally in high-growth environments such as startups, e-commerce, or BFSI

About Navi

We are on a mission to make finance simple, accessible and affordable for a billion Indians. Guided by a strong customer-first approach, we are building tech-first solutions that work at scale. Our offerings include a range of financial products and services across Loans, Insurance, Mutual Funds, Digital Gold and UPI. Founded by Sachin Bansal \& Ankit Agarwal in 2018, we are one of India's fastest-growing financial services organisations. But we're just getting started!

Our Culture

At Navi, we're a place where ambition meets opportunity and ideas turn into impact quickly. We empower people with high ownership from the start, encouraging them to solve meaningful problems and build with excellence. Teams here work in an environment that values speed, collaboration and craftsmanship, while celebrating learning, growth and shared wins along the way. Whether you're shaping the future of fintech products or driving innovation behind the scenes, life at Navi means being part of a high-energy, talent-driven workplace where your contributions truly make a difference.

We're guided by our own operating system The Navi OS - a set of principles that shape how we work and win together. You can explore them at

navi.com/our-values

to see what drives us every day. If this feels like you, Navi is the place to grow, thrive and make a real impact.