HR- Talent Acquisition
Paytm · Posted Oct 14
Mobile payments, digital wallets, banking solutions, and financial services
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About the role
Paytm, one of India's leading fintech companies, is hiring within its Talent Acquisition function to drive senior and leadership hiring. The role goes beyond filling positions, focusing on bringing in exceptional leaders and partnering with business heads and hiring managers as a trusted talent advisor. It covers end-to-end recruitment for leadership mandates, talent mapping, market intelligence, and offer negotiations.
What you will do
- Drive end-to-end recruitment for senior and leadership roles, from understanding the requirement through offer and onboarding.
- Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand strategic hiring needs and define success profiles for each role.
- Lead talent mapping, market intelligence, and competitor talent research to build strong leadership pipelines.
- Find and engage high-caliber professionals through LinkedIn, headhunting, referrals, networking, and other sourcing channels.
- Run structured interview and assessment processes for leadership candidates.
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships and give candidates a confidential, high-quality experience.
- Handle compensation discussions, offer negotiations, and closures for critical mandates.
- Track hiring metrics such as time-to-hire, offer acceptance, and pipeline health, and share insights with stakeholders.
- Deliver high-quality hiring outcomes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4–6 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with exposure to leadership or executive hiring.
- Strong headhunting, sourcing, talent mapping, and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building abilities.
- Proven ability to engage senior professionals and close critical hiring mandates.
- Working knowledge of LinkedIn Recruiter and applicant tracking systems.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with executive search or leadership hiring firms, AI-led companies, or IT services and technology recruitment.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Paytm
Paytm is India's leading financial services company offering full-stack payment solutions, digital wallets, QR codes, and financial services to consumers and merchants. The platform provides comprehensive digital inclusion via UPI payments, banking services distribution, merchant devices, and lending solutions. Operating under its parent firm One97 Communications, Paytm has scaled its operations into a robust profitability-driven ecosystem.
- Industry
- FinTech
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $4.91B raised
- 2023-08-28Late Stage$246.34M
- 2020-11-20Angel$1.26M
- 2019-12-06Series H$673M
- 2018-08-27Series G$300M
Leadership
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Recent coverage
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