Talent Acquisition, Operations Specialist

• Own full-cycle recruitment, including intake with hiring managers, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offers, and onboarding handover
• Hire across APAC and the Middle East, adapting to local talent pools, compensation norms, notice periods, and work permit considerations
• Recruit for fintech, product, engineering, risk, compliance, payments, operations, marketing, affiliate, performance marketing, partnership, media buying, SEO, and CRM roles
• Source passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, communities, job boards, and targeted headhunting
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill roles
• Establish hiring processes, including job descriptions, interview structures, scorecards, and an ATS
• Advise hiring managers on market availability, salary benchmarks, and hiring timelines
• Manage offers and negotiations and keep candidates engaged through their start date
• Track and report hiring metrics such as time-to-hire, source effectiveness, and offer acceptance rate
• Strengthen the employer brand and manage external agencies where needed
• Run onboarding and offboarding end to end, including offer letters, contracts, documentation, equipment, access, and first-week plans
• Maintain accurate employee records in the HRIS and keep people data and documents organized and compliant
• Coordinate with finance and EOR or payroll partners on monthly payroll inputs, joiners, leavers, and changes across countries
• Support background checks, reference checks, and pre-employment verification
• Draft, update, and roll out HR policies and the employee handbook
• Handle day-to-day employee queries on leave, benefits, policies, and paperwork
• Support probation reviews, performance-cycle logistics, and employee engagement initiatives
• Manage HR and recruitment vendors, tools, and subscriptions and automate repetitive administration

• 3–5 years of hands-on, full-cycle talent acquisition experience
• Proven experience hiring for startups or high-growth companies, ideally as a solo or small-team recruiter
• Track record of hiring for fintech roles
• Experience hiring for marketing and affiliate businesses, including performance marketing and affiliate or partnership roles
• Hands-on experience hiring across APAC and the Middle East, with an understanding of regional talent markets and compensation
• Practical HR or people operations experience: onboarding, documentation, HRIS, and payroll coordination
• Strong sourcing skills, especially headhunting passive candidates
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, comfortable juggling hiring and admin work in parallel
• Comfort working independently and remotely, with strong ownership and prioritization
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Confident stakeholder management with senior leaders
• Working knowledge of at least one ATS, one HRIS, and LinkedIn Recruiter
• Experience setting up a recruitment or people function, ATS, or HRIS from scratch
• Familiarity with payments, lending, or other regulated industries
• Experience working with Employer of Record (EOR) providers or multi-country payroll
• Exposure to employer branding or recruitment marketing
• Experience with hiring data dashboards and reporting
• Additional languages relevant to APAC or the Middle East (e.g. Arabic, Bahasa, Thai, Vietnamese)

• Fully remote work from anywhere in India
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Leave
• Learning budget
• Equipment
• Real ownership: build Pulse's hiring and people operations from the ground up
• Exposure to multiple markets across APAC and the Middle East
• Direct access to founders and leadership
• Fast decisions and little bureaucracy