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About the role:
In this role you will report directly to the Manager of Global GTM Recruiting and help run all things recruiting. It will be your responsibility to generate a pipeline of candidates for both technical and non-technical roles. This role may quickly evolve into a full cycle recruiting role. In that role, you will also schedule and run launch meetings with hiring managers for all new roles, setting and managing expectations on both ends. This person will also get to plan and manage recruiting events, activities and be the face of the company to all candidates.
This role is based in Bangalore and the working arrangement is a hybrid of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
What you'll be doing:
- Consistently generate a healthy pipeline of high quality candidates for technical and non-technical roles
- Partner with recruiters to understand hiring profiles, needs of the business and to drive candidates through the hiring process.
- Partner with hiring managers and interview teams to understand their hiring needs and goals
- Create and execute unique and effective sourcing strategies and techniques to find top talent
- Engage, screen and schedule candidates for relevant openings and assist them through the recruitment process; provide a quality professional recruiting experience
- Stay consistently engaged with active candidates through the entire recruiting process.
- Be the market knowledge expert and provide insights to recruiting and hiring managers at the company.
- Work with the rest of the recruiting team to assist with driving initiatives and developing processes -- referral program, company happiness, retention, training, etc.
- Become a brand ambassador and help with networking and recruiting events
What you bring:
- A friendly and welcoming attitude in person and over the phone.
- 5+ years experience in a sourcing, recruiting or a recruiting function.
- Knowledge of technical sourcing with an eagerness to learn and grow.
- Experience sourcing and researching through different social media channels.
- Desire to become a full cycle recruiter and help grow the recruiting team.
- Self-motivation, strong time management and organizational skills.
- Proven ability to build networks, both internally and externally.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to
market.
Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open-source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit
konghq.com or follow
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