Meesho Hiring for Manager – Tech Talent Acquisition (Leadership Hiring) at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

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About the Job

At Meesho, our people are our most important resource, as we believe the right culture comes with the right people. We’re looking for a highly skilled technical recruiter who can handle our leadership roles. The ideal candidate will have prior experience in technology leadership recruitment, with knowledge of screening, interviewing, and hiring practices. If you have a passion for finding untapped talent, driving company growth, and helping individuals find promising careers, we want to hear from you.

About Talent Acquisition Team

It is a lean team of very Talented and hardworking rockstars. Hustling, never settling down, speed over perfection, integrity, transparency, and stakeholder servicing are some of our core values. As a team we love to work and party hard. We are very approachable and love pranking each other. New ideas are welcomed, and we love clapping for all our outstanding rockstars.

Your Impact

Success in this role will be measured by your ability to deliver your team’s goals (both recruiting volumes and candidate experience) consistently.

Collaborate well across all BUs; act as a Trusted Advisor to hiring managers and leaders

Managing recruiting teams and driving efficiencies

Drive and deliver recruiting projects and initiatives

Meet and exceed quarterly and yearly acquisition targets – mainly through direct sourcing

and driving employee referrals

Make consumable & actionable data available for recruiting and business leadership.

Specific Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

Team Management

Build a team of recruiting top talent and manage end to end

Driving OKRs
Appraisals & reviews
Regular 1on1s
Team coaching & mentoring

Drive and deliver recruiting projects and initiatives

Delivering Hiring Results

Deliver top class recruiting results quarter on quarter

End to end hiring for senior and business critical roles

Process Excellence

Participating in implementing and executing recruiting programs and strategies to fill current openings and help build a healthy pipeline of qualified candidates.

Stakeholder Management

Partner with the assigned businesses, drive communication, build trust and

manage stakeholder relationships.

Manage agencies, budgets

Collaborate with other departments (Compensation, Human Resources, Employer Branding) to drive the recruiting process through onboarding

Skills Required

7+ years’ experience in tech leadership recruitment

2+ years of experience in managing a high performing tech recruiting team (full cycle)

Exceptional communication, interpersonal, decision-making and negotiation skills

Good understanding of the talent market dynamics, equity & esop concepts, compensation benchmarking etc.

Hands on experience with Applicant tracking systems and Job portals

Proven experience designing and implementing best in place hiring practices and interview execution

Meesho’s work culture values

Thinking 10x, thinking long term

Speed over perfection

Company>team>individual

Standing up and speaking minds

User and problem first mindset

Why Join Meesho?

Meesho is a pioneer in the Indian social commerce marketplace enabling anyone to start their small business in India & sell online. Supported by world-renowned investors like Softbank, YCombinator, Naspers (Now Prosus), and Facebook among others, Meesho has helped over 13 million Indians become entrepreneurs in their own right.To truly understand how Meesho has impacted the lives of entrepreneurs across the country, listen to what they have to say by clicking here.

Meesho has a vision to enable 100 million SMBs in India to sell online. 90% of India’s retail market is unorganized and has not been able to come online till now. Meesho’s goal is to solve the problems these SMBs face today & help them build an online presence so that they can enjoy the benefits of Internet commerce.

Meesho is Series F funded startup with the latest investment round in 2021 which valued Meesho at $5 Bn, led by Fidelity Management & B Capital along with participation from existing investors such as Softbank, Facebook, SAIF, Naspers Ventures Sequoia, Shunwei Capital, RPS, and Venture Highway. Meesho is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and was one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. It was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad – Solve for India program.

Along with being the only Indian startup to make it to Fast Company’s global list of Most Innovative Companies 2020, Meesho was also awarded Startup of the Year, 2020 at the Young Turk Awards, and ranked 24th in Y-Combinotor’s top 100 places to work in 2021 — we made it to the list for the second time in a row. We fuel innovation while remaining deeply rooted in our great work culture that was painstakingly built by our CEO & Co-Founder Vidit Aatrey and CTO & Co- Founder Sanjeev Barnwal.

Moreover, Meesho is certified as a Great Place to Work (GPTW) company, and has been declared as a “high trust- high-performance culture” by none other than GPTW, considered to be a global authority on workplace culture (2019-2020).