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Founding Recruiter, India

Vela· Recruiting & HR
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Hybrid (India)INR 800k - INR 1200kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Founding Recruiter role at Vela, a YC-backed startup building AI for coordination, focusing on hiring exceptional operations talent and fresh graduates in India. Own end-to-end recruitment for India team, work directly with founders, and build a graduate pipeline.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end recruiting for our India team, primarily across operations and early-career roles.
  • Source candidates through targeted outreach, referrals, college networks, student communities, and job platforms.
  • Build relationships with placement cells and campus organizations to create a consistent graduate hiring pipeline.
  • Screen for clear communication, sound judgment, attention to detail, initiative, and a track record of getting things done.
  • Work with the founders to define role requirements, develop practical assessments, and keep interviews moving.
  • Manage candidate communication, offer discussions, and follow-ups through joining.
  • Track which sourcing channels produce strong hires and improve the process as you learn.
  • Give candidates an honest understanding of the role, expectations, and working arrangements.

Qualifications

  • Ideally 2–4 years of recruiting experience, with evidence that you’ve independently sourced and closed candidates.
  • Previous startup experience strongly preferred, either in-house or recruiting closely for startup teams.
  • Experience hiring for operations, customer support, business roles, or graduate programs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication.
  • Excellent organization and follow-through.
  • Resourcefulness to find promising candidates beyond inbound applications and familiar colleges.
  • Good judgment about potential demonstrated in internships, projects, work, or extracurriculars.

Skills

Required:End-to-end recruitingSourcing and outreachCandidate relationship management

Benefits

  • Compensation: ₹8–12 lakh per year in fixed pay, depending on experience and demonstrated results.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Vela

AI Agents For Complex Scheduling Coordination

We are building Vela, the AI scheduling assistant for the most complex interactions. Everyone assumes scheduling is a calendaring problem. It's not. It's a human nuance problem: knowing who to prioritize, how hard to push, and which dynamics to navigate. Vela understands these nuances, and every interaction deepens that understanding. Instead of manually calling, texting, and emailing hundreds of candidates across spreadsheets, today teams connect their system of record to Vela and it handles outreach, scheduling, and confirmation automatically with the nuances of industries and teams built in. Gobhanu and Saatvik are brothers who scaled a microfinance bank to 77 countries as kids. We previously built at AWS ML + SuperCompute and BCG AI.

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