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# Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Cialfo

- **Company:** Cialfo
- **Location:** Delhi, India
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** http://www.cialfo.co/careers?gh_jid=6166513004

## Job description

This position is with [Manifest Global](https://www.manifest.inc/about-us), which also includes trailblazer brands such as Cialfo, Explore, BridgeU, FlowAI, Kaaiser and Edugo.

What This Role Is

Most recruiters spend their careers fighting the same fight: a broken ATS, manual screening that eats the whole day, a hiring manager who ghosts the scorecard, a pipeline that starts from zero every time a req opens. That fight is largely over at Manifest. Resume screening, first-round AI phone screening, and interview scheduling already run on a live automation pipeline. Every open role carries a structured AI-Lens score before a hire is made. The administrative weight that usually defines a recruiter's day is already handled.

What's left is the part of the job that actually matters, and the part most recruiters never get enough time to do well: reading a role correctly before you source for it, building a pipeline before the req is desperate, coaching a hiring manager through a real interview instead of a rubber stamp, and closing a candidate who has other offers on the table. That's this role. You inherit a portfolio of open roles across the Manifest brand family, and you own each one end to end, inside a system built to let you spend your time on judgment, not logistics.

You own proving that a recruiter given real leverage, real tools, and real ownership can outperform a much bigger team running the old way.

What Makes This Role Different

Most Senior Talent Acquisition roles ask you to either inherit chaos or build infrastructure from nothing. This one asks something rarer: step into a function that's already operating ahead of where most companies' TA teams will be in a few years, and bring the craft that no automation stack can replace. If your best days as a recruiter are the ones spent actually talking to people, reading a candidate's real motivation, coaching a hiring manager into asking a better question, this is a role built around giving you more of those days, not fewer.

The Manifest ecosystem means your work isn't confined to one brand's hiring needs in isolation. You're building pipelines across a group actively investing in never starting critical searches from a blank page again, and the muscle you build here compounds across every brand you touch, not just one.

## What You Own

Your portfolio of open roles, assigned as you join, owned end to end and tracked against a tiered service standard that separates urgent hires from foundational ones

Calibration and pipeline quality on every role you run: structured scorecards, AI-Lens scoring, and honest debate on any candidate who raises a real question, never a quiet pass or fail

Hiring manager partnership, coaching certified managers through structured interviewing and treating your own read on a role as something worth defending, not just executing

Pipeline building on the roles Manifest hires for again and again, so the next opening in your portfolio starts with a warm pool, not a cold search

Candidate experience on everything you touch, every applicant treated like their eventual review of Manifest matters, because it does

What Success Looks Like

The markers below reflect where the function is today. We'll calibrate the specifics to your actual portfolio once you're in the seat. These are directional, not fixed.

In the first weeks, you're ramped on your assigned roles and already a real contributor to how the function reads its own performance, not still learning the tools while roles sit open.

By mid-period, your roles are closing at a pace that reflects real calibration, your hiring managers trust your judgment enough to move fast on your recommendation, and at least one of your searches started from a pipeline you built before the req opened, not after.

In the long term, you're one of the people other recruiters and hiring managers point to when they want to see what good calibration actually looks like, and your portfolio is proof the system works because of the person running it, not just the automation underneath it.

The specifics will be calibrated once you're in the role. The direction won't change.

## What You Bring

You've recruited at real volume before, across more than a handful of roles at once, and you know the difference between a candidate who looks good on paper and one who'll actually close. You're coachable, genuinely energized by stepping into a system someone else designed well, rather than needing to rebuild it your way before you can do good work.

You're fluent in using AI tools in your own recruiting practice, not just aware that AI-native recruiting exists. You've screened, scored, or sourced with AI tools directly, and you light up talking about what changed when you did.

You're comfortable with a little ambiguity at the start. Your exact portfolio isn't fixed until you join, and you'd rather find out and move than need it decided for you months in advance.

Most importantly, you read the description of how this function actually runs and your first reaction was not "that sounds like a lot of process," it was "finally, a recruiting job built around the parts I'm actually good at." That's the person this role is for.

## Why Manifest

Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for global human capital mobility, connecting students, schools, universities, and employers across 150+ countries. Our portfolio spans Cialfo (AI-powered college counseling, 2,000+ schools), BridgeU (university guidance for international schools globally), Kaaiser (trusted study abroad counseling since 1997 across India and Southeast Asia), and Explore (AI-powered university outreach, 1,000+ university partners). Together, we move talent across borders at scale. $700B flows annually in remittances from migrant workers. 85M workers will be missing from developed economies by 2030. We're building the operating system which changes that. $91M raised. Still early.

For this role specifically: Manifest is trying to prove a five-brand, multi-country hiring function can run better than companies many times its size. That only happens with recruiters who want to be excellent at the craft, not just keep the pipeline moving.

Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for global human capital mobility, operating across 150+ countries.

## About Cialfo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cialfo provides an AI-powered college counseling and application platform that connects students, counselors, and universities to streamline the higher education admission process.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B extended to $60M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore, Singapore
- **Founded**: 2017 (company roots trace back to 2010 as an offline consultancy)
- **Founders**: Rohan Pasari (CEO), Stanley Chia (COO), William James Hund (CPO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Educational Technology (EdTech), Higher Education
- Target customers: B2B — K-12 schools and universities, with end-users being high school students, school counselors, and university admissions teams
- Mission statement: "To create a world where every student, regardless of their ethnicity, nationality, socio-economic status, and learning preference, gets equal access to higher education"

## Products & Services
- **Cialfo Platform**: An all-in-one AI-powered college counseling workflow platform for K-12 schools. Integrates with UCAS, Common App, and Parchment to help counselors manage student applications, track progress, and streamline operations.
- **Direct Apply**: A proprietary technology that lets students use a single application form to apply to 75,000+ programs across 1,000+ universities globally.
- **Explore by Cialfo**: A product launched in 2025 for universities to reach and engage with prospective students worldwide.
- **Profile Builder & University Exploration**: Student-facing tools that help learners make informed decisions about college and career paths.
- **Online University Fair**: A virtual event platform launched during COVID-19, which connected 18,000+ students across 128 countries with 95 universities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (last known round details below)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $60M (Series B of $40M in 2022 led by Square Peg and SEEK Investments, plus a $20M extension led by Tiger Global in the same year).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Square Peg, SEEK Investments, Tiger Global, SIG Global, Vulcan Capital, DLF Venture, SEEDS Capital, Cercano Management, January Capital, Alto Partners, Lim Teck Lee, Govin Capital, Koh Boon Hwee.
- **Growth Signals**: Recognized as one of the "World’s Top EdTech Companies (2024)" by TIME and Statista; named a finalist for "Digital Innovation of the Year" at the PIEoneer Awards 2024; certified as a "Great Place to Work" in both India and Singapore; operates in 100+ international markets; over 100 years of combined team experience; official technology partner of the 2024 IC3 Regional Forums.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated Ecosystem**: Partnerships with major platforms (UCAS, Common App, Parchment) and a proprietary Direct Apply system for 75,000+ programs create a deep moat against point-solution competitors.
- **99.99% Platform Uptime**: Built on AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability during peak admissions seasons — a critical trust factor for schools.
- **AI-Powered Workflows**: Reduces administrative burden on counselors with dynamic reporting, automated application prep, and instant live chat support (7-second response time, 100% issue resolution).
- **Global Reach**: Presence in 100+ markets with teams in Singapore, India, China, and the US, giving them unique cross-cultural insight into the admissions landscape.
- **High Customer Satisfaction**: 96% counselor satisfaction rate with contracts spanning 7+ years, signaling strong retention.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale to 100 Million Students**: Ambitious goal to make higher education accessible at an unprecedented volume through AI-driven solutions.
- **Product Expansion**: Recent launch of "Explore by Cialfo" for universities, broadening their product suite beyond K-12.
- **Deepen AI Integration**: The company is "reshaping the higher education landscape" with cutting-edge AI, meaning investment in machine learning and automation is likely a core engineering focus.
- **Global Footprint Growth**: With offices in Singapore (HQ), New Delhi, Shanghai, and Washington DC, the company is building infrastructure to serve a truly international customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Diversity**: Strong emphasis on DEI; 53% of the workforce is women. The careers page explicitly states "Inclusion Isn’t an Initiative — It’s Who We Are."
- **Mission-Driven**: Work directly impacts global education access — a compelling purpose for many job seekers.
- **Award-Winning Workplace**: Certified "Great Place to Work" in both India and Singapore. Recognized on HolonIQ’s list of 50 most promising EdTech startups in Southeast Asia.
- **Engineering Environment**: Focus on scalable, reliable technology (99.99% uptime, AWS infrastructure) that "powers global student success." The engineering culture appears mature and product-focused.
- **Growth Trajectory**: With $60M in Series B funding, a growing global team, and recent product launches, the company is in an expansion phase offering career growth opportunities.
- **Remote/Office Policy**: Not explicitly disclosed, but the presence of multiple global offices (Singapore, New Delhi, Shanghai, Washington DC) suggests a hybrid or flexible model, especially given the international nature of their team and customers.

## Sources
1. [Cialfo Website](https://www.cialfo.co/)
2. [Cialfo About Us](https://www.cialfo.co/about-us)
3. [Cialfo Our Story](https://www.cialfo.co/our-story)
4. [Cialfo Our Team](https://www.cialfo.co/our-team)
5. [Cialfo Careers](https://www.cialfo.co/careers)

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