DealShare - Director - Technology Hiring - On Site

Director - Technology Hiring - On Site

About Dealshare:

- DealShare, India's fastest growing social e-commerce startup known for pioneering the community group buying (CGB) model in India, has a vision of enabling e-commerce for the next 500 million users in India in non-metro and rural markets. DealShare has recently raised Series E funding of $ 165 million with key investors like Tiger Global, Alpha Wave Global (Falcon Edge), Kora Capital, Dragoneer Investments Group, Westbridge Capital India, Matrix Partners, and Unilever Ventures to name a few.

- This transaction marks the third funding for the company in a span of eight months, with the valuation increasing ten-fold on the back of high growth momentum. With the current round, the total funding raised by DealShare stands at $ 348 million.

- DealShare has built a new disruptive retail model for India, focusing on the affordability & price component for the mass consumers. It offers high-quality, low-priced essentials coupled with a gamified, fun, and virality-driven vernacular shopping experience, making it easy for first-time internet users to experience online shopping. Founded by Vineet Rao, Sourjyendu Medda, Sankar Bora, and Rajat Shikhar in Sept 2018, DealShare provides a sharp and curated assortment at highly competitive prices and has built an innovative community leader driven ultra-low-cost delivery mechanism collectively leading to best-in-class unit economics.

- Dealshare has 10 million+ customers. It is present in 100+ cities/towns across 10 states, namely Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu, with an Annual GMV Run Rate of $860 million. We aim to expand operations to 200 cities across India and are setting an audacious goal to increase our annual revenue run rate to $3 billion.

What are we building:

- Customer-first - use first principles to truly understand our customer needs and build a business that's customer-centric & not copy the Western models.

- A unique, hyper-efficient & logistics operational model that enables us to carry out operations at the lowest costs in the country

- Simple to understand, intuitive, engaging & gamified product experience in all local & regional languages

- Regional to National - Creating a key distribution platform for high-quality, lesser-known regional manufacturers and making them popular brands nationally.

Mission :

- To create one unique tech-enabled, organized retail model for the entire Indian mass ecosystem that solves for the affordability of the middle Indian customers through high quality, low priced essentials while providing a platform for small, regional, and national manufacturers to offer their products at best margins.

Position: Director Talent Acquisition - Technology Hiring

- Dealshare is seeking a TA leader based out of Bangalore supporting our technology hiring, with strong business partnering and talent acquisition skills. You will work closely with the leadership team to build and execute against a long-term talent acquisition strategy for our technology and product teams.

- In this role you will lead a team of recruiters working on candidate placement, process improvement, and business stakeholder satisfaction.

- You should be able to work effectively at scale and be able to deliver multiple projects while contributing to a fun and collaborative team environment.

- Exhibit strong problem solving approach while addressing hiring challenges and forging partnerships with leaders, hiring managers and other internal partners to meet expectations and meeting hiring goals.

- Showcase strong verbal and written communication skills, have an ability to manage team priorities against tight timelines, demonstrate push-back and a sense of urgency, and have a practical, common sense approach to solving complex problems.

Core Responsibilities :

- Build, engage, lead and develop a team of high-performing recruiters in an extremely fast-paced and ambiguous environment

- Set team performance goals and metrics, timelines and formal tracking process to measure and manage progress

- Develop and execute plans to identify and drive productivity improvements that enable the team to deliver hiring goals without having to scale deployed resources at a rate faster than the business is growing

- Drive sourcing capability & internal capacity to proactively build diverse candidate pools while leveraging all available talent channels to expedite the recruitment process.

- Work closely with business leaders to influence and deliver quality assessment and high touch candidate experience through all aspects of the recruitment funnel

- Periodically lead and/or participate in cross-business/cross-company special projects and initiatives related to talent acquisition.

- This role will be based out of our HO in Bangalore.

Required qualifications :

- Bachelor's/PG degree or equivalent experience

- 10+ years of tech recruiting experience with a minimum 4+ years of people leadership and team handling experience.

- Experience building, coaching and performance managing a recruiting team.

- Experience developing recruiting hiring plans and building data driven recruiting reports.

- Strong business acumen, and experience working with large, complex organizations during periods of growth and change.

- Highly data-driven decision making and quantitative analysis skills.