Naukri - Head - Technology

Role : Head of Technology and Operations.

About role :

This is a transformation mandate, not a maintenance one. Platform reliability, feature velocity, and operational execution are the primary growth constraints today. The person stepping into this role will be accountable for removing those constraints : building AI-first capabilities across recruiter and candidate workflows, and rebuilding the operations function to be best-in-class.

WHAT WILL YOU OWN :

- Platform technology : engineering delivery, reliability, and feature velocity across all product lines

- AI for productivity and operations : deploying AI-driven automation across technology and ops workflows, including assisted delivery, candidate sourcing, and internal tooling

- AI for matching and platform intelligence : owning the development of better algorithms, relevance ranking, and AI-assisted shortlisting that makes the platform meaningfully smarter over time

- Operations : end-to-end service delivery quality, including sourcing ops, recruiter support, and SLA-driven execution

- Process and tooling : internal infrastructure (dashboards, activation tracking, productivity tools) that enables the customer success and sales teams to operate effectively

- Vendor and infrastructure management : costs, architecture decisions, and third-party integrations

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR :

Experience and background :

- 13+ years of experience with meaningful stints in both technology leadership and operational delivery

- Has built or rebuilt a tech and ops function, not just managed a steady-state one

- Understands product-market dynamics in platform businesses (recruitment, marketplace, or SaaS context preferred)

- Has worked in a startup or transformation context where speed and resourcefulness matter more than headcount

Mindset and orientation :

- AI-first in practice : has built or shipped AI-driven features, not just evaluated them

- Comfortable operating with ambiguity, low-process environments, and incomplete information

- Measures technology by its impact on hiring share, adoption, and customer success, not system elegance alone

- Can build new things and retire old ones without losing team morale

WHAT WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR :

- Someone who needs a large team to feel effective

- Someone who defaults to building over buying, or vice versa, without evaluating the business case

- Someone who treats technology and operations as separate kingdoms rather than an integrated delivery system

REPORTING AND CONTEXT :

This role reports directly to the Business Head and is a member of the core leadership team. The person will interface regularly with Naukri's central technology organisation for platform integration and shared infrastructure decisions.