Assistant Manager - Talent Aquisition

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

Assistant Manager - Talent Aquisition

Experience: Minimum 5 years
Location: Koramangala, Bangalore
Work Mode: In-office

About IRL (Instawork Robotics Labs)

Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap” - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more [here]

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Recruiter to lead and execute high-volume hiring initiatives. This role requires strong expertise in bulk hiring, hiring drive management, and the ability to manage and mentor HR interns while working closely with business and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and execute large-scale hiring drives (virtual and on-ground).
• Manage bulk hiring for Operations and other frontline roles.
• Lead and manage a team of HR interns, including task allocation, training, and daily performance tracking.
• Drive end-to-end recruitment processes: sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding coordination.
• Will be managing a team of HR interns
• Design and roll out attractive and effective employee referral bonus programs to boost hiring outcomes.
• Leverage AI-based recruitment tools and modern sourcing techniques to improve hiring efficiency (preferred).
• Collaborate closely with hiring managers to understand manpower needs, timelines, and priorities.
• Maintain recruitment data, dashboards, and hiring reports for leadership review.
• Ensure a smooth and positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
  
  

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum 8 years+ of experience in recruitment or talent acquisition.
• Strong experience in bulk hiring and hiring drive management, especially for Operations / Customer Support roles.
• Proven experience in managing and mentoring HR interns or junior recruiters.
• Hands-on experience with ATS platforms and recruitment tools; exposure to AI hiring tools is a plus.
• Ability to conceptualize and execute lucrative referral programs.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Why Join Us

• High ownership role with end-to-end hiring responsibility
• Opportunity to lead and build a recruitment team
• Fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Direct exposure to leadership and strategic hiring decisions
• Competitive compensation, perks like commute, food

Our Values

• Empathy, Trust & Candor
  We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.

• Bias for Action
  We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!

• Always Be Learning
  We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.

• Act Like an Owner
  We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.

About Instawork

Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies - and we're just getting started!

Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.

Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.

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