Service
Niche & Specialised Hiring
Hard-to-find talent across tech and non-tech domains.
Niche and specialised hiring at AVP Talent Solutions is a founder-led search service for specialist roles that job boards and generalist recruiters cannot fill — engineering, product, data, cloud, cybersecurity, sales, finance and operations, from senior individual contributors to Director level, across India, the Middle East and the United States.
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Who it's for
Companies with specialist roles that job boards and generalist recruiters can't fill.
Engineering and product teams
Backend, platform, data, ML, security and embedded roles where the market is thin and the good people are not applying.
Revenue and operations leaders
Enterprise sales, partnerships, supply chain, finance and compliance specialists with a track record in your sector.
Companies entering a new domain
Aerospace, space-tech, agri-tech, pharma: roles where domain knowledge matters more than years.
Teams burnt by CV volume
You have had forty profiles and no interviews. We send four to six you will want to meet.
What's included
A defined piece of work, not an open-ended CV stream.
A calibrated brief
A structured intake turns the job description into a hiring profile: must-haves, nice-to-haves, deal-breakers and the two things that actually predict success in the seat.
Network first, search second
Continuous mapping of specialist talent means most searches start with people we already know.
Targeted outreach
Niche networks, passive channels and referrals. No job-board blasts.
Assessment before introduction
Skills, motivation and fit screened by someone who has hired for the role before. Written note on every profile.
A shortlist you will interview
Four to six profiles, each with our view on fit and risk.
Offer and landing
Compensation benchmarking, offer negotiation, notice-period management and first-weeks check-ins.
Discover → Assess → Engage → Hire
The same four stages as every AVP mandate.
Discover
Continuous market mapping and a structured intake on the role, team, culture and what success looks like at 90 days.
Assess
Skills, motivation and culture fit vetted before any introduction, with a written note on every profile.
Engage
Discreet outreach to people who aren't on the market, interview coordination and offer negotiation.
Hire
Close, onboard, and check in through the first weeks.
Run by the founder, start to finish
Founder & Principal Consultant, AVP Talent Solutions
"Senior attention and accountability on every search — that's the whole point of working with a boutique."
Vinay K N has spent 18+ years in talent acquisition across in-house and agency roles, including enterprise TA leadership and recruitment for Cropin, Ola, Quikr, Commonfloor and Kale Logistics. He has hired across India, APAC, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, in sectors from IT and logistics to aerospace, pharma and BFSI. He founded AVP Talent Solutions in Bengaluru to give companies a recruitment partner who stays on the mandate personally, from the first brief to the first 90 days.
Niche & Specialised Hiring — frequently asked questions
Straight answers to what employers ask us first.
What counts as a niche role?
Any role where fewer than a handful of people in the market fit the brief: deep technical specialisms, rare domain-plus-function combinations, or roles in sectors such as aerospace, space-tech and agri-tech where relevant experience is scarce.
Do you cover non-technical roles?
Yes. Roughly half of AVP's niche mandates are non-technical: enterprise sales, supply chain, finance, compliance and operations roles with a specific domain requirement.
How many profiles will we see?
Typically four to six per role. Each profile comes with a written note on fit, motivation and risk, so you interview fewer people and close faster.
How is this different from posting the role ourselves?
Posting reaches people who are looking. Niche hiring reaches the people who are not, through networks built before your role opened, and vets them before you spend interview time.
Is niche hiring retained or contingent?
Usually contingent, with a retained option for multi-role programmes or roles that need a dedicated market map. Vinay will recommend the model on the first call.
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