🌿 Talent Acquisition Specialist — D2C & Consumer Brands Earthful.me | Full-Time | Hyderabad | 7–11 LPA

About Earthful

Earthful is a Shark Tank-backed, plant-based nutrition brand on a mission to make nutrition less intimidating with nothing but nature. We make iron from curry leaves, vitamin C from amla, and supplements that people actually trust. 95,000+ Instagram followers, 5 Crore raised, and a team that moves fast with high standards.

We are scaling our team across procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, and marketing and we need someone who can find exceptional people, not just manage a pipeline of applicants.

This is a sourcing role. Your job is to find great people not wait for them to find us.

Role at a Glance

Location: Hyderabad (Hybrid in-office 3 days/week)

Compensation: 7 11 LPA (based on demonstrated sourcing track record)

Joining: Immediate

Reporting to: Founders directly

Scope: All hiring across procurement, operations, supply chain, marketing, brand

Team size: Solo TA function you own it end to end

What You Will Actually Do

This is not a job description you read and then post on job portals. Your daily work looks like this:

Sourcing & Pipeline Building

• Open LinkedIn every morning with a sourcing brief not an inbox full of applications
• Build Boolean search strings on the spot for any role procurement, supply chain, social media, brand, tech
• Use LinkedIn Recruiter, Premium, or free filters creatively to surface passive candidates who are not applying anywhere
• Source on IIM Jobs for mid-to-senior specialist and management profiles know how to filter, not just search
• Tap your personal network proactively you should be connecting people you know to roles before a brief even lands
• Build warm pipelines for roles 23 months ahead of hiring not just reactive role-by-role sourcing

Outreach & Candidate Engagement

• Write InMail and WhatsApp outreach that candidates actually respond to not copy-paste JD blasts
• Have real conversations with passive candidates understand their situation, sell the role honestly, qualify them sharply
• Maintain a CRM or tracker of every candidate touched status, response, next step, follow-up date

Screening & Shortlisting

• Screen profiles against role-specific criteria sharply salary fit, actual ownership vs. designation, industry relevance
• Conduct first-round screening calls that get to the point within 10 minutes
• Deliver shortlists to the founders with a clear brief on each candidate why they fit, what to probe, what the risk is
• Push back when a brief is unrealistic you are a partner to the business, not an order-taker

Employer Brand & Posting

• Write JDs that attract the right people and filter out the wrong ones honest, specific, and Earthful-toned
• Post strategically on LinkedIn, IIM Jobs, and Naukri and know which platform works for which role type
• Track sourcing metrics weekly: profiles approached, response rate, shortlist conversion, time to fill

Non-Negotiable Requirements

We will not move forward with candidates who do not meet all of the following:

• 01 3,000+ first-degree LinkedIn connections with a strong concentration in FMCG, D2C, supply chain, marketing, and operations we will ask to see your LinkedIn profile early in the process
• 02 Hands-on Boolean search experience you can write a search string for any role brief without Googling how. We will test this.
• 03 Proven sourcing track record you have found and placed candidates who were not actively applying. You can name them, describe how you found them, and what the outcome was.
• 04 Experience on IIM Jobs not just awareness, actual sourcing and shortlisting of management and specialist profiles.
• 05 >2 years of in-house TA experience agency recruiting experience alone is not sufficient. We need someone who has owned hiring for a brand or company directly.

Strong Advantage (Not Mandatory, But Will Separate You)

• You have sourced for roles in D2C, FMCG, wellness, food & nutrition, or consumer brands you know the talent landscape in this space
• You have hired for procurement, supply chain, or manufacturing roles categories Earthful is actively hiring in right now
• You have a habit of maintaining relationships with great profiles even when there is no open role for them
• You have used LinkedIn Recruiter Lite or full Recruiter seat and know how to squeeze results out of a basic Premium account when you don't have a paid seat
• You know the difference between a candidate who managed a team and one who built something and you can spot it in a 15-minute call

This Is Not the Right Role If You...

Please read this carefully before applying. We are being direct to save everyone's time.

• Rely primarily on inbound applications from job postings that is 20% of this job, not 80%
• Have never sourced a passive candidate who was not actively looking
• Need a structured team, defined playbooks, or a manager who sets your weekly priorities
• Come from a pure agency background and have not worked in-house at a brand or company
• Are expecting a 60-day ramp-up period we need someone who can open a role brief on Day 1 and start sourcing by Day 2
• Have fewer than 2,000 LinkedIn connections concentrated in relevant industries
• Are looking for a role that includes payroll, compliance, onboarding, engagement surveys, or HR operations this is purely talent acquisition and sourcing

Why Join Earthful

• Shark Tank-backed founder-led brand with genuine product-market fit and real momentum
• Direct access to founders your shortlist and your judgment shape the team, not just fill vacancies
• Every hire you make is visible you will see the people you placed building the company
• Fast-moving, high-trust environment no bureaucracy, no approvals for everything, no politics
• A category you can be proud of real nutrition, real ingredients, real impact on people's health

How to Apply

Along with your profile, answer this in 5 lines or fewer:

"Tell us about the best hire you ever sourced. What was the role, where did you find them, and what was your approach?"

We read every response. If you can't answer this in 5 lines with a real example, this role is probably not the right fit.

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