Talent Partner
Company Profile: candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions, we’re able to provide a unique offering to this underserved sector. In doing so, we aim to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.
Our approach is to take the risk so our partners don’t have to, providing businesses with flexible, end-to-end solar and battery solutions that are built to last. Our shared value model leverages our experience in customisable finance and performance offerings, quality engineering, and data-enabled asset management to help guarantee optimised systems, lowering the barrier to entry and maximising returns.
www.candi.solar
Job Summary:
candi seeks an ambitious and driven Talent Acquisition Specialist to champion our People & Culture team. While the core focus is on full-cycle recruitment (70%) for our Indian team, this strategic role offers substantial exposure to broader HR Business Partnering (HRBP) responsibilities (30%). You will work closely with department leaders and other People & Culture colleagues as a trusted advisor, ensuring candi attracts, secures, and retains exceptional talent, while also supporting the cultural and business goals across functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Talent Acquisition (Primary focus, 70%)
- Act as a true talent advisor to hiring managers, proactively partnering to understand business needs and build tailored hiring strategies.
- Own the end-to-end recruitment process, including: formulating job descriptions, sourcing candidates via cost-effective and innovative channels (job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, etc.), CV screening, initial candidate engagement, interviewing, salary negotiation, and offer roll-out.
- Develop and maintain a talent pipeline through effective networking, continuous market mapping, and engagement with potential future candidates.
- Use recruitment data and analytics to share actionable insights and reporting with business leaders and the wider People & Culture team.
- Stay on top of recruitment trends and benchmark candi’s processes against industry best practices.
- Ensure successful candidate experience from first contact through onboarding, with a focus on culture fit and engagement.
HR Business Partnering (Secondary focus, 30%)
- Support the People & Culture team by partnering with business leaders to better understand workforce needs, succession planning, and talent development objectives.
- Collaborate in designing and executing HR-related projects (e.g., onboarding, employee engagement, process improvement initiatives, training).
- Serve as a first point of contact for HR-related queries for the Indian business unit, helping communicate and embed candi’s values and policies.
- Play an active role in building a high-performance, values-driven team culture, contributing to team effectiveness and cross-functional projects.
Job Requirements:
- 3-5 years’ experience in talent acquisition, ideally with exposure to HRBP or generalist HR responsibilities.
- Deep understanding of modern recruiting tools, practices, and digital collaboration platforms.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand business strategy and talent implications.
- Excellent communication (written and spoken English), stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience working in fast-paced, multicultural, or international environments is a plus.
Location: Bangalore, Mumbai / Pune with hybrid work options
Working Culture:
- You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
- A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
- Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
- You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
- candi is an equal opportunities employer.
candi is unique because...
- We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
- We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
- We are an international team where hybrid working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.