Head - Talent Acquisition - AgTech

One of India's foremost AgTech firms, started with a vision to solve two of the biggest problems in Indian agriculture - Lack of guidance for healthy and sustainable farming AND limited access to quality farm inputs for consistent and qualitative farming.

With technology at its core, it has built an innovative & sustainable ecosystem that includes products such as a customized enterprise sales solutions that maps data of farmers' crop life cycles, India's first online farmer community, online agri-advisory with online shopping for inputs and an incomparable logistics solution for last mile rural connectivity.

The company is funded by prominent VCs and is the winner of Economic Times' Best Startup Award 2016, under the 'Social Enterprise' category.

Here's more about the role:

- As we scale rapidly, the leader of the talent acquisition team will own one of the most critical components of growth - Organisation Building.

- With a team of 5-6 talent specialists, be responsible for hiring tech, non tech and agri advisory talent for the org.

- You will need to understand org plans and create and implement talent strategies to get best quality talent fast.

- You will also be responsible for handling leadership and other critical positions in a hands-on capacity.

- This role will also allow you to focus on critical pillars of talent acquisition like employer branding, diversity hiring strategies, and campus hiring.

- A chance to work closely with some truly awesome founders and an amazing People Practices team

Requisites:

- 10-13 years of proven experience in hiring great talent

- Off the chart communication and storytelling skills

- Ability to work with multiple portals like Angel.co, Instahyre, LinkedIn.

- Minimum 2 years of managing a team

- Strong data-oriented bent to understand and manage critical input levers to hiring

- Great relationship skills to work across several internal stakeholders like function leaders and external stakeholders like consultants, campus personnel, etc

Looking for enthusiastic intrapreneurs who want to work at the - grass root- level and want to make a difference to India's biggest sector.