Hire great people in India. Without running the search yourself.
I'm AJ (Aparajita Roy Gupta), a recruiter with 12 years in India hiring. I find, screen and close your India hires end to end, on India time, so your team only meets the final few.
Hiring in India from 10 hours away is harder than it looks
The talent is there. Getting the right person to say yes, and actually show up, is the hard part.
One recruiter, the whole search
- STEP 120 minute callWe talk about the role, your team and your timeline.
- STEP 2Role brief and market checkI send back the brief, the realistic pay range and how hard the role will be to fill.
- STEP 3ShortlistYou get a small shortlist of screened candidates, each with notes on why they fit.
- STEP 4InterviewsYou meet only the final few. I handle scheduling and feedback.
- STEP 5Offer to day oneI close the offer and stay with the candidate through the notice period.
Built for hard, senior roles
Pick what fits your stage
- BEST FOR
- One critical role
- WHAT YOU GET
- Full search for one role, from brief to day one
- TYPICAL CLIENT
- Early startup, first India hire
- BEST FOR
- 2 to 5 roles in a set period
- WHAT YOU GET
- A focused push across several roles, one process
- TYPICAL CLIENT
- Startup building its first India team
- BEST FOR
- Ongoing India hiring
- WHAT YOU GET
- AJ works as your India recruiter, part time, every month
- TYPICAL CLIENT
- Series A or later company scaling in India
Not sure which fits? Book a call and I'll tell you honestly, even if the answer is “you don't need me yet”.
Hard roles, filled fast
12 years hiring across enterprise companies like SCL, mid-market product and services firms, and zero-to-one startups where I built recruiting from scratch. Most recently, I've been the fractional recruiter for US and UK startups hiring AI/ML and full stack engineers.
“We needed a CTO and had been looking for months. AJ found three serious candidates in a few weeks, and we made an offer by day 45. She ran the whole thing so I could keep building.”
“Every candidate AJ sent had already cleared a real technical screen. Our team stopped wasting interview hours, and the architects she placed are still with us.”
“Hiring in India from London felt risky. AJ knew the market, the pay, and how to keep people engaged through a 90 day notice period. Nobody dropped out.”
“AJ was honest about the role, the team and the pay from the first call. She kept me updated at every step, which almost never happens.”
“She understood what I was looking for better than most hiring managers. The role she brought me was exactly the right next step.”
Hi, I'm AJ.
I'm Aparajita Roy Gupta, AJ to most people. I've spent 12 years recruiting in India.
I've hired for large enterprises like SCL, for mid-market product and services companies, and for bootstrapped startups where I built recruiting and HR from nothing. These days I work as a fractional recruiter for US and UK startups, mostly on AI/ML, full stack and senior technical roles.
What I've learned: finding candidates is rarely the problem. Getting the right one to say yes, and to show up on day one, is. That's the part I'm good at.
I work with a small number of companies at a time, so every search gets my full attention.
Questions founders ask
Let's get your India hiring moving.
Tell me about the role. I'll tell you honestly what it'll take to fill it.
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