Recruitment Specialist

Leadership Hiring Partner – Founders Office

Location: Gurgaon / Jaipur / Remote

Work Model: Remote or Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-time

Reporting To: Founders

About Thrillophilia

Thrillophilia is one of Indias leading experiential travel platforms, helping millions of travellers discover and book curated holidays and experiences across India and international destinations.

We are building a large, profitable, technology-led travel company with ambitious plans across consumer travel, artificial intelligence, brand, international expansion, partnerships and new business lines.

The next phase of Thrillophilias growth will depend heavily on the quality of leaders we bring into the organisation.

About the Role

We are looking for a Recruitment Specialist who will partner directly with the CEO and Chief Business Officer (CBO) to build the leadership team that will drive our next phase of growth.

This is not a traditional recruitment role. We are looking for someone who understands businesses, not just job descriptions. You should have the ability to identify exceptional business talent, build relationships with passive candidates, and influence hiring decisions at the leadership level.

If you enjoy solving complex hiring challenges, mapping talent markets, and recruiting high-impact leaders in fast-growing companies, this role is for you.

What Youll Do

• At least 6-10 years of experience owning end-to-end hiring for business, leadership and strategic roles across the organization.
• Partner closely with the CEO and CBO to understand business priorities and translate them into hiring strategies.
• Build proactive talent pipelines through market mapping, research, networking and headhunting.
• Identify and engage high-quality passive candidates from target organizations.
• Assess candidates for leadership capability, business acumen, cultural alignment and long-term potential not just resume fit.
• Manage the complete recruitment lifecycle including sourcing, interviews, stakeholder management, offer negotiation and closing.
• Advise hiring managers using talent market intelligence, compensation insights and competitor hiring trends.
• Continuously improve recruitment processes, candidate experience and hiring speed while maintaining quality.

What Were Looking For

Preferred Background

You should have worked with one or more of the following:

• High-growth startups
• D2C or consumer brands
• Consumer technology companies
• Executive search firms serving high-growth businesses

Experience from companies such as Mokobara, Mamaearth, The Souled Store, Pilgrim, Snitch, boAt, Lenskart or similar fast-scaling consumer businesses will be highly preferred.

Hiring Experience Required

You should have successfully hired mid-to-senior-level leaders across functions such as:

• Category Managers and Category Heads
• Revenue Leaders and Business Heads
• Growth and Performance Marketing Leaders
• Brand Managers and Brand Heads
• Creative Directors and Heads of Design
• Finance Heads and Finance Business Partners
• Partnerships Leaders
• Operations Leaders
• Supply Chain Leaders
• P&L Owners
• Other strategic functional leadership roles

What Success Looks Like

Were looking for someone who can:

• Understand business functions beyond recruitment.
• Build strong talent maps across target companies and industries.
• Confidently headhunt passive leadership talent.
• Differentiate genuine business operators from candidates with impressive titles but limited impact.
• Influence senior stakeholders and advise founders on hiring decisions.
• Close difficult leadership searches with speed and precision.
• Thrive in ambiguous, fast-changing startup environments.

Desired Skills

• Executive Search
• Leadership Hiring
• Talent Mapping
• Passive Candidate Sourcing
• Market Research
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Acumen
• Candidate Assessment
• Negotiation and Offer Management
• Employer Branding
• Recruitment Analytics
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills

Why Join Us

• Work directly with the CEO and CBO on strategic hiring decisions.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping the companys leadership team.
• Build functions and teams that directly impact business growth.
• High ownership with significant visibility and decision-making responsibility.
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where your impact is measurable from day one.

P.S Candidates with only business hiring exposure is preferred. Technical Recruiters please refrain from applying.