Manager – Tech Recruitment

About the Team
At Meesho, Talent Acquisition isn’t just about hiring — it’s about shaping the future of internet commerce. Our team sits at the heart of Meesho’s mission to democratize e-commerce for everyone (DICE), building the high-impact teams that make this vision a reality.
We work closely with leaders across Engineering, Product, Data, and Business to bring in exceptional talent at scale — without ever compromising on quality, diversity, or candidate experience. Every hire we make directly influences the speed and ambition with which Meesho grows.
What truly sets us apart is how we’re reimagining recruiting through AI. We are an AI-first talent team, pushing far beyond traditional automation:
We’ve moved from keyword-based screening to intelligent success profiling, powered by deep insights from our hiring and performance data.
We’re building fully automated, high-quality AI-led interview experiences.
Our AI Copilot goes beyond note-taking — it actively elevates interviewer capability and decision-making.
If you’re excited about solving complex hiring challenges, leveraging cutting-edge AI, and building teams that drive massive business impact, you’ll feel right at home here.
About the Role
As a Manager – Tech Recruitment, you will lead and be responsible for end-to-end talent strategy, hiring delivery, and team leadership for the key engineering orgs, while acting as a trusted advisor to business leaders.
This role goes beyond execution—you will help shape the future of hiring at Meesho by driving data-led decision making and AI-powered recruiting initiatives.              
As Meesho continues its rapid growth, the Tech Recruitment team plays a critical role in building for Bharat by hiring the best of talent across backend, frontend, mobile, data, and platform domains. Our engineering efforts are further strengthened by innovations like BharatMLStack — Meesho’s machine learning platform designed to scale AI use cases for India’s diverse and complex user base.

What You Will Do
🔹 Hiring & Delivery

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Own and deliver end-to-end hiring for tech roles (SDE, Data, ML, Infra, Product)

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Drive quarterly and annual hiring targets across multiple business units

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Build strong pipelines for lateral, niche, and leadership hiring

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Ensure high offer-to-join conversion rates and hiring velocity

🔹 Stakeholder Partnership

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Partner with Engineering leaders, Hiring Managers, and HRBPs to drive hiring plans

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Act as a strategic talent advisor with insights on market trends, talent availability, and compensation

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Influence workforce planning and org design decisions

🔹 Team Leadership

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Lead, mentor, and scale a team of tech recruiters and sourcers

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Drive recruiter productivity, ownership, and capability building

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Establish best practices and playbooks for high-quality tech hiring

🔹 Data & Process Excellence

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Track and improve key metrics such as:

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Time to hire

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Funnel conversion rates

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Offer acceptance rates

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Use data to identify bottlenecks and optimize hiring processes

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Build dashboards and drive data-driven decision making

🔹 AI-First Talent Acquisition

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Identify opportunities to expand AI and automation across the hiring lifecycle, improving speed, quality, and recruiter productivity

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Build further 10X on existing AI systems in the areas of talent discovery, enablement, screening, assessment and candidate experience AI-powered sourcing and talent discovery systems to unlock top talent pool

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Leverage available data and models to drive predictive insights around funnel conversion, candidate drop-offs, and offer acceptance

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Drive adoption and continuous improvement of AI-enabled workflows within the recruiting team

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Partner with internal tech/data teams to co-create and scale new AI solutions for Talent Acquisition

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Bring in external perspective on emerging AI trends in recruiting and translate them into practical, high-impact use cases at Meesho

🔹 Employer Branding & Candidate Experience

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Strengthen Meesho’s tech employer brand through community engagement, events, and outreach

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Ensure a seamless and high-quality candidate experience across all touchpoints

What You Will Need
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8+ years of experience in recruiting with a strong focus on tech hiring

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2+ years of experience managing and leading recruiting teams

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Proven track record of hiring for product companies / high-growth startups

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Strong understanding of engineering roles, tech stacks, and hiring challenges

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Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

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Data-driven mindset with experience in recruiting analytics and metrics

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Ability to drive hiring at scale while maintaining quality

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Experience building and mentoring high-performing teams

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High intent and curiosity to explore, experiment, and adopt AI tools to drive continuous improvement in hiring

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Hands-on exposure to or strong interest in AI-driven sourcing, screening, or recruiting automation tools

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Ability to identify opportunities where AI can improve efficiency, quality, or candidate experience

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Comfort working with data, tools, and systems to optimize recruiting workflows

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Builder mindset with a bias for innovation, experimentation, and scaling best practice

Department: HR & CREWS
Team: Talent Acquisition