Executive Recruiter - Leadership Hiring

What Youll Do

Executive Recruiter Pune, India

Location: Pune, India

What Youll Do

As our Executive Recruiter in Pune, you will lead the charge in identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier leadership talent across engineering, sales, customer compliance operations and other business functions.

Reporting to the Director of Executive Recruiting in the US,

This is an Individual Contributor role.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

You will partner closely with both local and global stakeholders to develop and execute executive search strategies.

You will use data insights and market mapping, you will provide hiring teams with competitive intelligence and talent trends to make informed decisions.

Your day-to-day will include managing full-cycle executive search, presenting Director and above candidates with relevant market data, and ensuring a seamless experience for both candidates and hiring leaders.

About Your Team

You will be part of a high-impact Executive Recruiting team that partners globally to attract top leadership talent. Working closely with senior stakeholders in both India and the US, youll help shape the future of our leadership hiring strategy. Our team values data-driven decision-making, collaboration, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-visibility role with global impact, this is the opportunity for you.

What Youll Need to be Successful

What Youll Need to Be Successful

• 15 or more years of experience, with at least 2-3 years focused on executive-level hiring (Director and above).
• Track record supporting engineering teams and other functions, understanding their hiring needs.
• Expertise in data-driven recruiting, market mapping, and competitive intelligence to inform hiring strategies.
• Stakeholder management skills, working across local leadership in India and senior executives in the US.
• Present executive candidates with relevant market insights and guide hiring teams in making strategic decisions.
• Experience working with both executive search firms and corporate recruiting teams.
• Ability to navigate cross-cultural and remote stakeholder relationships.
• Experience with ATS platforms, sourcing tools, and executive search methodologie

#LI-Onsite

How Well Take Care of You

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America

What You Need To Know About Avalara

We re Avalara. We re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, and we re not slowing down until we ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

We re An Equal Opportunity Employer

Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company we don t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

What Youll Need to Be Successful

• 15 or more years of experience, with at least 2-3 years focused on executive-level hiring (Director and above).
• Track record supporting engineering teams and other functions, understanding their hiring needs.
• Expertise in data-driven recruiting, market mapping, and competitive intelligence to inform hiring strategies.
• Stakeholder management skills, working across local leadership in India and senior executives in the US.
• Present executive candidates with relevant market insights and guide hiring teams in making strategic decisions.
• Experience working with both executive search firms and corporate recruiting teams.
• Ability to navigate cross-cultural and remote stakeholder relationships.
• Experience with ATS platforms, sourcing tools, and executive search methodologie

#LI-Onsite

You will partner closely with both local and global stakeholders to develop and execute executive search strategies.

You will use data insights and market mapping, you will provide hiring teams with competitive intelligence and talent trends to make informed decisions.

Your day-to-day will include managing full-cycle executive search, presenting Director and above candidates with relevant market data, and ensuring a seamless experience for both candidates and hiring leaders.

About Your Team

You will be part of a high-impact Executive Recruiting team that partners globally to attract top leadership talent. Working closely with senior stakeholders in both India and the US, youll help shape the future of our leadership hiring strategy. Our team values data-driven decision-making, collaboration, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-visibility role with global impact, this is the opportunity for you.