Principal Recruiter

Principal Recruiter Niche & Leadership Hiring

Location: Bangalore, India

Experience: 10+ years in productled companies; an engineering degree is preferred.

Position Description

A seasoned Strategic Leadership Recruiter responsible for independently running endtoend hiring for senior, specialist, and businesscritical roles. This is a pure individualcontributor role that partners closely with executive leaders to translate business priorities into precise hiring strategies with disciplined execution. The role demands strong judgment, crisp articulation, and high autonomyowning talent mapping, proactive sourcing, executivelevel candidate engagement, and closure of complex searches. Success is defined by predictable delivery of highquality leadership talent and sustained credibility with senior stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own and deliver endtoend searches for senior, specialist, and leadership roles across Product, Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Marketing, and Corporate functions.
• Partner directly with executive leaders to clarify business priorities, define the hiring thesis, and align on barraising selection standards.
• Lead talent mapping and market intelligence (competitor benchmarking, org charts, succession pipelines) to anticipate and fill future needs.
• Drive proactive sourcing and passivetalent engagement using advanced techniques (researchdriven headhunting, Boolean/Xray, platforms like LinkedIn, GitHub/Stack Overflow) with hightouch outreach.
• Run structured, highrigor assessment processespanel design, scorecards, executive debriefs, and evidencebased decisioning.
• Orchestrate candidate experience at the executive levelexpectationsetting, offer strategy, close plans, and smooth onboarding handoffs.
• Track and report predictability metrics (throughput, conversion, timeinstage, quality at hire) and use insights to improve funnel health.
• Maintain confidentiality and uphold ethical standards in all executivelevel interactions.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of recruiting experience with a strong track record in productled companies, placing senior, specialist, and leadership talent.
• Demonstrated strength in IC ownership of executivefacing searches (from market mapping through close).
• Mastery of researchdriven sourcing, passivetalent engagement, and crafting compelling narratives for senior candidates.
• Excellent judgment, communication, and influence skills; able to frame tradeoffs and drive aligned decisions with leaders.
• Proven ability to run highdiscipline processes across multiple concurrent, businesscritical searches.
• An engineering degree is preferred.

What Success Looks Like

• Consistent, ontime closures of complex leadership and specialist searches.
• High stakeholder trust and repeat engagement from senior leaders.
• A robust bench/pipeline for priority roles built ahead of demand.
• Clear, databacked hiring recommendations that raise the leadership bar.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience in Executive Search or boutique leadershiphiring environments.
• Depth across Product, Engineering, Cloud, AI/ML, or Enterprise SaaS talent markets.

About Aurigo

Aurigo is revolutionizing how the world plans, builds, and manages infrastructure projects with Masterworks, our industryleading enterprise SaaS platform. Trusted by over 300 customers managing $450B+ in capital programs, Masterworks is setting new standards for project delivery and asset management. Recognized among the Top 25 AI Companies of 2024 and certified Great Place to Work for multiple consecutive years, we are shaping the future of capital program management across transportation, water, utilities, healthcare, higher education, and the public sector.

If you're excited to partner with business leaders and attract the brightest minds to a rapidly scaling product organizationlets connect.

Why Join Us?

Youll shape the future of Aurigos talent landscape, influence businesscritical leadership decisions, and partner directly with top industry leaderswhile being part of a fastscaling product organization.