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Need to close a CXO, leadership or hard-to-fill role? HiredNext delivers industry-aligned executive search and mid-senior hiring across Textile & Apparel, Fashion & Lifestyle, IT, BFSI, Retail, Engineering and Manufacturing.

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CXO / Mid-Senior

Leadership Hiring (CXO & Mid-Senior)

Leadership hiring across India’s major talent hubs, with GCC and global search support where needed. Built for confidential replacements, growth hires, and new capability builds.

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About Us

Founded in 2016, HiredNext has built a specialist recruitment practice and established itself as a trusted talent partner for organizations seeking leadership-driven growth and workforce transformation.

Our Vision

To be recognized as a globally respected recruitment and talent advisory firm known for insight-driven hiring, integrity, and consistent results.

Our Mission

To enable organizations and professionals to achieve long-term success by delivering talent solutions that balance capability, culture, and future potential.

2016
Founded in Mumbai
Leadership
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India
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Our Process

A seamless, insight-driven approach to connecting world-class talent with industry-leading organizations.

Industry Aligned Recruiters

Our recruiters are specialists in their sectors, bringing deep domain expertise to understand your unique hiring needs and candidate requirements.

End to End Solutions

From role analysis to onboarding support, we manage the complete recruitment lifecycle with precision and professionalism.

Global Talent Reach

Access top talent across borders through our extensive network and presence in multiple countries for niche and specialized roles.

Culture First Hiring

Beyond skills matching, we ensure candidates align with your company's values and culture for long term success and retention.

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Full Time Bengaluru or Noida

Principal Engineer — Voice AI Platform

Posted Sep 04, 2026 Principal / exceptional Staff level Experience

CONFIDENTIAL SEARCH

Ref: HN-2609-PEVAI

Build the future of conversations. Lead Voice AI that millions rely on.

HiredNext is managing a confidential search for a profitable, established enterprise SaaS company building the next generation of its real-time Voice AI platform.

This is a Principal-level individual contributor role for someone who is still deeply hands-on with architecture, production code, debugging and platform performance. The mandate is broad and technically demanding.

You will help own the platform from an incoming SIP/WebRTC call through real-time speech processing, reasoning, orchestration and generated audio response.

Location, work model and compensation

  • Location: Bengaluru or Noida
  • Work model: Hybrid — 3 days/week in office
  • Compensation: ₹1.5–2 crore fixed + performance-linked compensation + ESOPs
  • Search: Confidential

What you will own

  • Own the next-generation real-time Voice AI platform.
  • Work across SIP, RTP, WebRTC and speech-to-speech systems.
  • Build and evolve STT–LLM–TTS pipelines and orchestration.
  • Optimise GPU inference, latency, reliability and scale.
  • Remain a deeply hands-on Principal IC working closely with the CTO and senior engineers.

Required production experience

  • SIP, RTP, WebRTC and telephony-native media systems.
  • Real-time Voice AI and speech-to-speech platforms.
  • Streaming STT, LLM orchestration and TTS.
  • Barge-in, VAD, endpointing and full-duplex interaction.
  • Tool calling, RAG, workflow execution and human escalation.
  • GPU inference and optimisation using stacks such as vLLM, Triton, TensorRT, CUDA, ONNX or Faster-Whisper.
  • Distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, fault tolerance and high-scale production operations.
  • Measurable latency, concurrency, throughput or infrastructure-cost improvements.

This is not a conventional engineering-management role

The successful candidate will work directly with the CTO and senior engineers while continuing to architect, code, troubleshoot and operate critical systems.

We want evidence of what you personally built

Strong applications should be able to answer questions such as:

  • What platform did you personally design?
  • Which components did you personally code?
  • What production scale did you operate?
  • What were the real p95/p99 latency numbers?
  • What difficult failure did you personally diagnose?
  • What inference or infrastructure optimisation did you deliver, and what changed as a result?

Relevant backgrounds

Exceptional candidates may come from Voice AI, Conversational AI, CPaaS, CCaaS, Cloud Telephony, WebRTC, Speech AI, ASR/TTS or large-scale distributed communications platforms.

Strong Staff-level engineers with unusually deep hands-on Voice AI and platform ownership may also be considered.

How to apply confidentially

Apply through the form on this page or email jobs@hirednext.info.

Please share:

  • CV
  • LinkedIn profile
  • GitHub / technical portfolio, where available
  • Current location
  • Current fixed and total compensation
  • Expected fixed compensation
  • Notice period
  • Willingness to work 3 days/week from Bengaluru or Noida

Only evidence-based applications closely aligned with the mandate will be progressed.

HiredNext never charges candidates to apply for a role or secure placement.

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Full Time Delhi

Designer — Apparel / AI-First

Posted Sep 04, 2026 7+ years Experience

CONFIDENTIAL SEARCH

Buying House | Delhi

Designer — Apparel / AI-First

HiredNext is managing a confidential search for a buying house in Delhi seeking a hands-on apparel designer who can combine strong product fundamentals with AI-enabled design execution.

This role is suited to someone who can work lean, move quickly and take ownership across design, fabric, tech packs and digital tools while supporting international buyer requirements.

What we are looking for

  • 7+ years of relevant apparel design experience.
  • Strong hands-on capability in fabric sourcing.
  • Good working knowledge of tech pack creation.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
  • Hands-on use of ChatGPT or other AI design tools as part of the design workflow.
  • Graphics capability alongside apparel design is a strong plus, particularly for a lean team environment.
  • Extensive exposure to UK and European brands, with experience relevant to markets such as France and Spain.

Location and travel

  • Delhi office location — candidates should be comfortable working from Delhi.
  • Frequent travel to Dhaka will be an important part of the role, and candidates must be comfortable with this requirement.

Compensation

As per market, aligned to experience, capability and fit.

Who will fit this role well

A strong apparel designer who understands product end to end, can source and translate fabric ideas into executable tech packs, is digitally fluent, and is already using AI as a practical design tool rather than treating it as a future concept.

Candidates who can additionally handle graphics will have a clear advantage because the team is being built lean.

How to apply confidentially

Apply through the form on this page or email jobs@hirednext.info.

Please share your CV, portfolio, current location, current compensation, expected compensation, notice period, and confirmation that you are comfortable with the Delhi office location and frequent travel to Dhaka.

HiredNext never charges candidates to apply for a role or secure placement.

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Full Time Bangalore

Lead Backend Engineer – Node.js

Posted Sep 01, 2026 8–12+ years Experience

Job code: HN-LBE-0901

HiredNext is managing a confidential search for a Lead Backend Engineer – Node.js for a high-scale technology platform. The employer identity will be shared only with appropriately shortlisted candidates.

Role overview

Own and scale the backend architecture of a platform serving high transaction volumes. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, scalable microservices, performance engineering and technical leadership.

What you will own

  • Own the architecture, design and development of backend systems built on Node.js.
  • Design resilient, fault-tolerant distributed systems and event-driven microservices.
  • Optimise latency, throughput, data processing and infrastructure cost at scale.
  • Lead database architecture across SQL and NoSQL systems, including caching and asynchronous processing.
  • Design secure REST and GraphQL APIs and integrations with payment gateways, ERP, CRM, OMS/WMS and third-party platforms.
  • Lead backend engineers, architecture reviews, code quality, testing, monitoring and documentation.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap planning and execution.

Candidate requirements

  • 8–12+ years of backend engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Node.js.
  • Strong JavaScript and TypeScript expertise.
  • Experience with Express.js or NestJS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, scalability, reliability and security.
  • Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ and AWS SQS/SNS.
  • Strong ownership, problem-solving, communication and engineering-leadership capability.

Good to have

  • AWS, GCP or Azure experience.
  • Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Datadog, Grafana, ELK or OpenTelemetry.
  • Ecommerce, Retail, Marketplace, FinTech or Consumer Technology experience.

Location and compensation

Bangalore | On-site / Hybrid | ₹45–50 LPA, depending on experience and fit.

How to apply

Apply through the form below or email your CV to jobs@hirednext.info with the subject HN-LBE-0901 | Lead Backend Engineer | Current Company. Include your current compensation, expected compensation, notice period and present location.

HiredNext does not charge candidates to apply for a role or secure placement.

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Executive search in India: questions employers ask before appointing a search partner

Short, evidence-led answers for CXO, leadership, confidential and hard-to-fill hiring decisions.

How should I compare executive search firms in India?

Compare mandate fit, sector context, direct-search capability, market mapping, assessment depth, confidentiality, senior ownership and source-backed evidence — not brand size alone.

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How do companies find senior leadership talent in India?

Define the business scorecard, map direct and adjacent talent pools, approach passive leaders discreetly and assess evidence of scale, outcomes and joining motivation.

See the leadership search framework →

When does a confidential CFO search need executive search?

Use a focused search when the appointment is sensitive, strategically important or dependent on passive finance leaders. Control disclosure and assess governance, capital, transformation and stakeholder leadership.

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When should an employer use RPO in India?

RPO is most useful for sustained or changing hiring volumes that need dedicated recruiter capacity, clear process ownership, service levels and measurable funnel reporting.

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Executive search or a recruitment agency?

Executive search fits senior, scarce or confidential mandates; specialist recruitment fits domain-heavy roles; generalist or RPO models can be more efficient for repeatable volume.

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How long does executive search take in India?

HiredNext reports a 21-day average hiring speed, but no responsible firm should promise one universal timeline. Seniority, scarcity, geography, compensation, confidentiality, stakeholder speed, notice periods and counter-offers all change the outcome.

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