Director - Talent Acquisition

Director, Talent Acquisition (India)

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to "Be Alight."

Our Values:

Champion People - be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose - Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight - act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy, engaged and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com .

Role Overview

The Director - Talent Acquisition (India) will own and lead Alight's end-to-end talent acquisition strategy for India, supporting business growth, global delivery, and long-term capability building. This role is accountable for developing scalable hiring strategies, leading high-performing TA teams, and partnering closely with senior business and HR leaders to deliver critical talent across all hiring segments.

This is a senior leadership role requiring a strategic, hands-on talent leader with deep experience navigating complex, high-volume and niche hiring within large, global organizations.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition Strategy & Delivery

• Define and execute a comprehensive India talent acquisition strategy aligned to Alight's business priorities, growth plans, and global workforce strategy.
• Translate workforce plans into actionable hiring roadmaps across functions, locations, and talent segments.
• Lead hiring for a broad range of roles including professional, leadership, specialist, and hard-to-fill/niche positions.
• Continuously assess external talent market trends to inform proactive hiring and workforce decisions.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and HR leaders on talent strategy, market intelligence, and hiring effectiveness.
• Build strong governance and operating rhythms with hiring managers to ensure clarity, speed, and accountability.
• Influence and align stakeholders in a matrixed, global environment.

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing India Talent Acquisition team.
• Build strong functional capabilities across sourcing, assessment, candidate engagement, and stakeholder management.
• Drive a culture of performance excellence, inclusion, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.

• Strengthen Alight's employer brand in the Indian market through targeted employer branding, campus and lateral hiring initiatives, social media, referrals, and partnerships.
• Ensure a consistent, inclusive, and differentiated candidate experience across all touchpoints.
• Act as a steward of Alight's values throughout the hiring lifecycle.

• Drive efficiency, scalability, and quality across TA processes, systems, and vendor partnerships.
• Leverage data and analytics to track and improve key metrics such as time-to-hire, cost-to-hire, quality-of-hire, and offer-to-join ratios.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, labor laws, and global hiring standards.

• Embed diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into all hiring strategies and practices.
• Partner with HR and business leaders to build diverse talent pipelines and deliver inclusive hiring outcomes.

• Bachelor's degree required
• MBA or postgraduate qualification in Human Resources or Business preferred

• Minimum 18+ years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition or Recruitment in leadership role or as Leader in TA
• Demonstrated experience leading TA for large, global organizations
• Proven success scaling hiring operations and leading distributed recruitment teams in India
• Experience supporting high-growth, fast-paced environments

• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to execute hands-on
• Executive-level stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Data-driven mindset with a focus on outcomes and continuous improvement
• Strong people leadership, communication, and change management capabilities
• High degree of integrity, resilience, and adaptability