<p>Position: Manager – Leadership Hiring</p><p>Location: Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune (Remote)</p><p>Experience: 10 – 15 Years</p><p>Employment Type: Full-Time</p><p>Reporting Line: Chief People Officer</p><p>Role: Individual Contributor</p><p><br></p><p>About Us:</p><p>Narwal is an AI-powered, data-led, outcome-focused solutions provider helping global enterprises accelerate transformation across AI, Data, and Quality Engineering. With operations across five countries and a globally distributed team, Narwal partners with Fortune 500 and large enterprises deliver measurable business outcomes at a scale. Its approach combines deep engineering expertise with proprietary AI-led accelerators, frameworks, and reusable IP to drive faster delivery, higher quality, and reduced risk across complex enterprise environments.</p><p><br></p><p>Recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000, in the Midwest region and a Great Place to Work, Narwal is redefining how services are delivered, by moving beyond effort-based models toward scalable, AI-powered execution that helps clients innovate with speed and confidence.</p><p><br></p><p>Why Narwal?</p><p>Narwal is on a significant growth and transformation journey as it scales its global AI, Data, and Quality Engineering business.</p><p><br></p><p>This role offers a unique opportunity to strengthen Narwal’s leadership hiring capability during a high-growth phase while helping shape a more scalable, business-aligned, and capability-driven recruitment model.</p><p><br></p><p>As Narwal continues to evolve, the Manager – Leadership Hiring will play a critical role in strengthening leadership pipelines, candidate quality, stakeholder partnership, and hiring predictability across the organization.</p><p><br></p><p>This role is ideal for someone who combines strong leadership hiring experience with operational rigor, strong business partnership capability, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced IT Services environment.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Role Overview</u></strong>:</p><p>We are looking for someone who operates beyond transactional recruitment — a professional who can understand the business, map the market, identify the right leadership talent, engage senior executives, influence stakeholders, and take a search through to successful closure.</p><p><br></p><p>If you have a strong executive network, a research-led approach to search, and a proven track record of delivering complex leadership mandates across markets, we would like to hear from you.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>What You’ll Own</u></strong></p><ul><li>Lead searches across Sales/Growth, Client Partner, Delivery, Practice, AI, Data, Quality Engineering, and other business leadership roles.</li><li>Manage searches from mandate definition and market mapping through sourcing, executive engagement, assessment, negotiation, offer closure, and onboarding.</li><li>Build targeted search strategies and identify leadership talent primarily across the US, with additional global mandates as required.</li><li>Conduct executive market intelligence, competitor benchmarking, talent mapping, and organizational research to identify relevant leadership talent and provide actionable hiring insights.</li><li>Develop and maintain a strong network of senior executives, industry leaders, passive candidates, and high-potential leadership talent.</li><li>Partner with CXOs, Business Heads, HR leaders, and senior hiring stakeholders to understand business context, leadership requirements, and success profiles.</li><li>Translate business requirements into target-company lists, talent pools, search strategies, and calibrated candidate profiles.</li><li>Own candidate engagement strategies for highly sought-after and passive executives, ensuring a differentiated executive candidate experience.</li><li>Lead senior-level compensation discussions, negotiations, stakeholder alignment, and offer closure.</li><li>Build proactive leadership pipelines through market intelligence, referrals, internal calibration, and external talent research.</li><li>Provide stakeholders with regular search intelligence, talent availability, competitive insights, and pipeline updates.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><u>What We’re Looking For</u></strong></p><ul><li>10–15 years of Talent Acquisition / Executive Search experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on experience in Leadership Hiring.</li><li>Proven experience in Leadership Hiring, Executive Search, or Senior-Level Recruitment.</li><li>Strong exposure to US and global leadership hiring.</li><li>Strong experience hiring leadership talent for IT Services, Digital Engineering, Technology, or Consulting organizations. Executive Search firm experience with significant technology services exposure is also relevant.</li><li>Strong understanding of senior talent markets across technology, sales, consulting, delivery, and business leadership.</li><li>Exceptional capability in executive sourcing, talent mapping, market intelligence, and passive candidate engagement.</li><li>Strong consultative and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work directly with senior business leaders.</li><li>Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation, and relationship-building capabilities.</li><li>Ability to manage multiple confidential, complex, and high-priority executive searches independently.</li><li>Demonstrated track record of independently closing complex senior and leadership mandates, including passive candidates, within agreed timelines.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Narwal is an equal opportunity employer. We celebratediversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. For more information please visit: https://narwal.ai/</strong></p>