Lead Talent Acquisition Partner
UKG · Pune
Why UKG:
At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.
We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.
UKG is looking for a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner in Pune to drive value-driven hiring for its product, technology & G&A organization, partnering with senior global leaders across region. This is a senior individual contributor role for a professional who combines strong stakeholder management, talent market intelligence, and hands-on expertise in AI-enabled recruiting to deliver measurable business outcomes.
About the role
The Lead TA Partner owns hiring outcomes for a global portfolio of roles spanning product, engineering, and G&A functions. The role operates as a strategic partner to senior leaders across regions, translating business priorities into hiring plans, advising on talent market trade-offs, and ensuring every hire creates value for the business.
The Lead TA Partner also leads recruiting projects that change how the global team works: piloting and scaling AI-enabled tools and automation, embedding structured and repeatable processes, and bringing data storytelling into leadership conversations. The role serves as a go-to resource for the team on stakeholder management, market insights, and AI in recruiting, and is expected to lead complex, business-critical searches with confidence.
Responsibilities
- Drive value-driven, end-to-end hiring for global product, engineering, and G&A roles, delivering on time, on quality, and aligned to business goals.
- Act as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to senior leaders across the region, aligning hiring priorities, challenging assumptions, and guiding decisions on market trade-offs, compensation positioning, and location strategy.
- Manage complex, multi-region stakeholder groups with confidence, adapting approach across time zones, hiring cultures, and business contexts.
- Lead recruiting projects and initiatives end to end, from scoping and stakeholder buy-in through adoption and impact measurement, in areas such as AI sourcing and screening pilots, structured interviewing, intake and SLA frameworks, and hiring manager enablement.
- Evaluate, pilot, and scale AI-enabled tools and automation across sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate engagement, and reporting, with measurable gains in turnaround time and recruiter capacity, while safeguarding fairness, candidate experience, and data privacy.
- Build and nurture proactive global talent pipelines for critical and recurring skills; identify alternative talent pools, geographies, and adjacent profiles when traditional sources cannot meet demand.
- Provide leaders with timely talent market intelligence on availability, skill scarcity, compensation benchmarks, and the competitive landscape, and use it to shape hiring strategy and long-term workforce plans.
- Use funnel data, systems reporting, and market insights to influence hiring decisions; act as the team's trusted advisor in data storytelling and translate insights into clear, compelling narratives for leadership.
- Develop a strong understanding of UKG's products, customers, and the HCM industry, and connect recruiting strategies clearly to business and team priorities.
- Identify and implement process improvements that raise hiring speed, quality, interview consistency, and the experience for candidates and hiring managers.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and team resource on process, tooling, AI, and stakeholder management; coach peers through challenging situations and reinforce best practices across the global team.
- Lead complex, niche, or business-critical searches where role ambiguity or talent scarcity requires a customized approach.
Qualifications
- 10–15 years of progressive talent acquisition experience, with a substantial portion in SaaS, enterprise software, or product-led technology companies.
- Proven experience partnering with and advising senior stakeholders across global, distributed teams and multiple time zones, with a strong record of stakeholder management and influence.
- Demonstrated track record of value-driven hiring outcomes: quality of hire, offer-acceptance, hiring manager satisfaction, and time-to-fill for product and technology roles.
- Hands-on expertise using AI in recruitment, such as AI-assisted sourcing, candidate matching and screening, outreach personalization, interview intelligence, or generative AI for recruiting content and analysis, with the ability to articulate measurable impact and lessons learned.
- Experience leading recruiting projects or initiatives end to end, from defining scope and securing buy-in through adoption and measurement.
- Strong data and business acumen; comfortable with funnel metrics, dashboards, and market data, and able to turn them into a persuasive story for leaders.
- Deep knowledge of modern sourcing techniques, global talent market mapping, and competitive intelligence for technology talent in India and internationally.
- Proficiency with enterprise ATS and CRM platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, and recruiting analytics tools.
- Excellent communication, consulting, and influencing skills; able to challenge thinking constructively and operate with a high degree of autonomy.
- Preferred: experience recruiting for HCM, HR tech, or workforce management products; exposure to global hiring programs, employer branding, or talent intelligence; experience mentoring recruiters.
Company Overview:
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.
UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com