Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Location: Pune India, Hybrid
Rapid7 is a publicly traded Cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, MA with 17 offices around the world. We are excited to expand our global presence into India and are seeking a creative, growth-focused, and people-oriented Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition to drive this expansion. This newly created role will be critical in scaling our existing talent strategy in the region. As a key partner to business leaders and hiring managers, you will develop, implement, and refine talent acquisition strategies and programs with the shared goal of building exceptional teams and supporting Rapid7's business and customer objectives.
About the Team
We call ourselves People Strategy rather than traditional Human Resources because we execute the company's business strategy through a people plan that motivates, develops, and inspires our employees. Our employees are the lifeblood of the company, and our Talent Acquisition team ensures that we're attracting and hiring the best talent to drive impact for our customers, the company, and one another.
About the Role
As the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition, your mission will be to redefine and challenge conventions in how we hire across India, ensuring we provide the highest level of recruitment services for your client groups. You will be responsible for leading and motivating a team of Talent Acquisition Partners to meet and exceed business hiring goals. In addition, you will manage cross-functional partnerships within Talent Acquisition and with stakeholders across the organization to attract and hire diverse, best-in-class candidates.
In this role, you will:

• Develop and align a robust talent acquisition strategy for your region with the company's overall organizational goals, partnering with business leaders to understand hiring needs and ensure recruitment efforts directly support company growth and objectives.
• Build, develop, and grow a high-performing team of Talent Acquisition Partners by providing leadership, coaching, and mentorship to ensure recruitment practices align with business priorities and deliver top talent to drive organizational success.
• Manage end-to-end requisition processes, including job posting, candidate screening, interview coordination, and offer management, ensuring smooth, timely, and high-quality recruitment for all open roles.
• Drive quantifiable results by establishing and executing hiring metrics for your team, including sourcing, interviewing, and hiring KPIs.
• Leverage data to inform hiring decisions, optimize recruitment strategies, and continuously improve the hiring process by tracking key performance indicators and analyzing trends to ensure a data-driven approach to talent acquisition.
• Effectively partner with Business Leaders to implement best practices across all hiring processes. Use data and relationships to support diverse candidate pools.
• Collaborate with Operations and Finance on headcount and resource planning to meet the headcount plan.
• Help build strategy and support employer branding efforts in region
• Work closely with Talent Acquisition Leadership and Business Partners to support ongoing diversity efforts.
• Continuously develop as a leader through feedback from your team, peers, and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with regional laws and regulations related to hiring in India, navigating labor laws, hiring practices, and other local requirements to ensure the company is aligned with legal and ethical standards

The skills you'll bring include:

• Proven leadership in Talent Acquisition, with a successful track record of leading teams in a growing, scaling tech business.
• Ability to combine strategic vision with operational excellence, driving fair and inclusive hiring practices.
• Experience supporting technical client groups.
• Ability to build and maintain a high-performing, engaged team, with experience mentoring Talent Acquisition Partners in their career development.
• A strong alignment with Rapid7's Core Values.
• A passion for solving complex hiring challenges in a dynamic job market.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments, with the ability to prioritize and manage projects and workloads for yourself and your team.
• Eagerness to "roll up your sleeves" and get involved in hiring, both for your team and the organization as a whole.
• A track record of exceeding hiring goals.
• An operational mindset with experience in metrics-based hiring and KPIs.
• Proven success in working cross-functionally within an organization to drive results.
• Strong systems experience, including Applicant Tracking Systems (Workday experience is a plus).

About Rapid7
At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact.
Here, we're building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 11,000+ global customers ahead of whatever's next.
Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world's biggest security challenges.