India’s global capability centres are powering a leadership hiring surge as they rapidly shed their back-office image and emerge as strategic nerve centres. As enterprises shift more global mandates in product, engineering, data, AI, cybersecurity and digital operations to India, demand for senior leaders has accelerated, experts and companies said. “Leadership attrition in the high-growth GCCs cohort remains high and drives attrition-linked backfills.”Heads of departments and enterprise functions across technical and commercial roles are among the top leadership roles GCCs are hiring for. Leadership talent in engineering, IT, finance, talent acquisition, operations and advisory and customer success is in demand, Xpheno data found. “We have hired a few senior roles as we grew last year, and the process will continue as we grow further.”Intuit plans to continue hiring for senior leadership roles in the year ahead based on the unique needs of the business.

Source: Economic Times December 26, 2025 12:38 UTC