Role & responsibilities
Hiring Delivery
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
Engineering Managers
Data / ML 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.
Sourcing & Talent Intelligence
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 to 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.
Skills Required
- 2 to 10 years of recruitment experience
- At least 2 years focused primarily on technology and/or product hiring
- Experience hiring across Engineering, Data/ML, Product, and multiple technology functions
- Experience with leadership and senior-level hiring, including Engineering Managers, Directors, and Heads of Product or Functions
- Exposure to non-technical hiring across business and corporate functions
- Strong technical understanding of technology profiles, stacks, and candidate fit
- Hands-on sourcing expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, and GitHub
- Experience building pipelines for niche and hard-to-hire roles
- Strong stakeholder management and data-backed advisory skills
- Strong offer negotiation and closure skills, including counter-offers, notice periods, and buyouts
- Experience managing confidential leadership searches
- Exposure to AI/ML, Computer Vision, and hardware-software product hiring
- Experience hiring for Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and Merchandising functions
- Experience with ATS platforms, recruitment analytics, Excel/Sheets, and dashboards
- Experience working with executive search firms and recruitment agencies
- Experience managing hiring across India, Southeast Asia, and Europe
What We Do
Lenskart is Asia’s largest eyewear company serving 40 Million people - helping them see better and lead better quality lives. We have more than 1500 omnichannel stores across 175 cities in India, Singapore and Dubai. Our aim is to serve One Billion eyes by 2025 globally. And in this journey, we want to go beyond vision correction to transform the way people see and experience the world. That’s our new purpose - and we can only get there through cutting-edge technology and exceptional people.
