Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense removes uncertainty from decision-making for the world’s most sophisticated companies. Our market intelligence and search platform, built on proven AI, delivers trusted insights from public and private content, including equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. In 2024, AlphaSense acquired Tegus, advancing our shared mission to empower professionals with AI-driven market intelligence. Together, we accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, offering complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets.

Trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500, AlphaSense was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York City. We employ more than 2,000 people globally, with offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland.

About the Role

We are seeking a Head of Talent Acquisition to lead hiring in India. This role is responsible for recruiting across functions, directly managing a team supporting tech and non-tech hiring, and overseeing a Recruiting Manager responsible for ops/volume hiring. This is a dedicated people leadership role with significant executive exposure, serving as the primary Talent Acquisition partner to VP and SVP-level leaders in the region while ensuring global alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape India hiring strategy in close partnership with senior leadership and cross-functional partners
• Lead and develop the India recruiting team, including 2-5 recruiters (FTE and contractors) and a Recruiting Manager overseeing ops hiring, driving performance, accountability, and consistency across functions
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing market insights and hiring counsel
• Establish structured, data-informed interview processes and decision frameworks
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance and HR to forecast headcount and hiring timelines
• Personally execute high-impact Director-level searches and sensitive leadership hires
• Own industry and university recruitment strategy for India, building pipelines and relationships that support both experienced and early-career hiring

Requirements

• A business-minded talent leader who understands how hiring strategy drives growth and organizational design
• A connector who aligns workforce planning, market insight, and recruiting execution into a cohesive global strategy
• Energized by fast-scaling environments and motivated to bring structure, accountability, and disciplined execution
• A proven people leader with experience managing managers and building high-performing recruiting teams, including setting measurable performance standards, driving accountability, and leading through organizational change
• A systems-oriented leader who evaluates tradeoffs, risks, and cost implications to build thoughtful, scalable hiring strategies

What Defines Success

• India hiring is predictable, disciplined, and aligned to long-term revenue strategy
• India leadership views Talent Acquisition as a trusted strategic partner, not a service function
• Recruiting teams operate with clear standards, accountability, and measurable performance outcomes
• Interview processes are consistent and data-informed across regions
• Senior-level hires are high quality and close efficiently in competitive markets