Meesho - Manager - Talent Acquisition

Manager - Talent Acquisition | Ecommerce

Designation: Manager, Talent Acquisition

Location: Bengaluru

Why join Meesho?

Meesho is India's largest social commerce platform, on a mission to enable anyone to start their businesses with zero investment. Our entrepreneurs largely comprise housewives in the age group of 25-45 from middle income households and / or tier 2+ India. Our marketplace provides entrepreneurs with the right supply across 100+ categories, logistics, and payment capabilities to successfully run their business. Furthermore, our social sharing integrations with Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram enable our entrepreneurs to monetize their large social network such as friends, family, neighbours and their larger social network.

We are looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Leader to help our company find and retain excellent employees. You will be entrusted with an ongoing quest to discover talent, build a strong employment brand, and ensure great relationships with both candidates and your stake holders.

Responsibilities:

- Build talent pipelines for current and future job openings

- Manage, train and evaluate our team of recruiters

- Develop a network of potential future hires (e.g. past applicants and referred candidates)

- Measure key recruitment metrics, like source of hire and time-to-hire

- Oversee all stages of candidate experience (including application, interviews, and communication)

- Develop talent acquisition strategies and hiring plans

- Use metrics to create reports and identify areas of improvement Must-Have Skills

- Proven experience for at least 3 years as talent acquisition leader and overall, 5 to 7 years of recruitment experience (ecommerce is preferable)

- Bachelors/master's degree in any discipline

- Experience in full-cycle recruiting, sourcing, and employment branding

- Understanding of all selection methods and techniques

- Proficient in the use of social media and job boards

- Willingness to understand the duties and competencies of different roles

- Excellent communicator

- A leader and strategic thinker

Meesho is Series D funded with an investment round led by South African company Prosus (previously known as Naspers) along with participation from Facebook and existing investors such as Elevation Capital (previously SAIF Partners), Sequoia, Shunwei Capital, RPS and Venture Highway in 2019. We have raised $2.1 Billion till date.