About us

We believe hiring
should feel human.

We started Beetel Hire because we saw firsthand how broken hiring had become — too transactional, too noisy, too slow. We're a small team building the modern alternative: thoughtful, technology-led recruitment for India's most ambitious companies.

Beetel Hire team at work
Our story

A new chapter for
how India hires.

Beetel Hire began with a simple observation: most hiring still happens on platforms that optimize for volume, not fit. We're building something different — a thoughtful, technology-led practice that pairs careful human judgement with the modern tools the industry has been missing.

We're independent, ambitious, and intentionally small. We've grown only through the people we placed — and we plan to keep it that way.

Mission

To make the most consequential decision in someone's career — feel less consequential.

The right job at the right time changes a life. We treat it that way, on both sides of the table.

Vision

A world where talent doesn't have to shout to be heard.

The best people are usually the quietest about it. We've built the practice around finding them.

Our process

Six steps. No surprises.

01

Discovery

A 90-minute conversation to understand the role, the team, the culture, and the constraints.

~1 week
02

Calibration

We send a calibration set — three to five profiles — to confirm we've understood the bar.

~1 week
03

Outreach

Targeted, hand-written introductions to a curated list. No mass blasts.

~2 weeks
04

Shortlist

A narrative shortlist of five to eight candidates with our honest read on each.

~1 week
05

Interview support

We prep both sides — candidates on what to expect, hiring managers on what to listen for.

~2–3 weeks
06

Offer & landing

We negotiate alongside both sides, then stay involved through the first 90 days.

90 days
Leadership

The team you'll actually work with.

Senior partners on every engagement. No bait-and-switch, no offshore handoff.

Aanya Krishnan
Aanya Krishnan
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Thomas Berge
Thomas Berge
Co-founder & Head of Engineering Search
Mira Soto
Mira Soto
Partner, Product & Design Practice
Jonas Ek
Jonas Ek
Partner, Executive Search
Yara Haddad
Yara Haddad
Director, EMEA
Hiroshi Tanaka
Hiroshi Tanaka
Director, APAC
Sarah O'Connell
Sarah O'Connell
Head of Operations
Ade Akinyemi
Ade Akinyemi
Head of Candidate Experience
Aanya Krishnan, co-founder
A note from the founder

“The best hires of my career never applied.

We started Beetel Hire because we'd watched the recruiting industry tilt entirely toward volume — outreach blasts, automated workflows, and metrics that measured everything except the thing that actually matters: did the right person end up in the right job.

We're building something that feels different. Quieter. More curated. The kind of practice you'd recommend to a friend without caveats — and that's the only metric we care about.
Aanya Krishnan
Co-founder, Beetel Hire
Our values

Six things we won't compromise.

Listen first

We ask more questions than we answer. Every brief starts with what isn't being said yet.

Protect both sides

We work for the company and for the candidate. When those two diverge, we say so.

Stay narrow

We say no to roughly a third of engagements we hear about. Volume is the enemy of care.

Charge fairly

Flat fees, transparent terms, no surprise invoices. The economics are designed to align us.

Tell the truth

If a candidate isn't right, we'll tell you. If the role is wrong, we'll tell them.

Take the long view

We optimize for relationships that last decades, not deals that close this quarter.

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