Talent Acquisition Intern

About the Role

We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Intern to help build candidate pipelines across active client roles on Profound. You’ll own sourcing and candidate outreach across multiple roles at the same time—finding relevant candidates, qualifying them, introducing them to Profound, and moving strong candidates into the matching funnel. This is a hands-on role for someone who already understands the basics of startup recruiting and wants to get significantly better at sourcing, candidate engagement, and running hiring funnels. You’ll work directly with the Head of Talent Ops and the broader founding team from our Bengaluru office.

Key Responsibilities

• Candidate sourcing: Run Boolean searches, LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI-powered sourcing tools to identify candidates across up to four active roles simultaneously.
• Candidate outreach: Write personalized outreach and engage candidates who may not already be actively looking for a new role.
• The Profound pitch: Clearly explain what Profound does, how the AI conversation works, and why the match brief can represent candidates better than a traditional screening process.
• Candidate qualification: Understand candidate backgrounds, motivations, compensation expectations, and role fit before moving them forward.
• Pipeline management: Keep candidates moving through sourcing, qualification, Profound matching, and hiring-manager conversations without dropping threads.
• Scheduling & coordination: Own candidate scheduling and follow-ups across multiple concurrent hiring funnels.
• Market mapping: Research Bengaluru's startup ecosystem, including companies that are hiring, recently funded startups, relevant talent pools, and competitors for active roles.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• You have at-least 6 months of TA internship experience.
• You have worked with early-stage startups, ideally companies with fewer than 100 employees.
• You know how to build and refine Boolean searches and have used LinkedIn or similar sourcing platforms.
• You have experimented with or actively used AI sourcing/recruiting tools.
• You have recruited for companies in AI, B2B SaaS, consumer tech, or adjacent technology sectors.
• You understand the Bengaluru startup ecosystem and can quickly map relevant companies and talent pools.
• You're comfortable pitching a role, company, or product to candidates who have little or no prior context.
• You can manage several pipelines simultaneously while maintaining strong follow-up discipline.
• You're curious, resourceful, and comfortable figuring things out independently before escalating.

This is a paid internship with a stipend of INR 20-25k