Assistant Manager - Talent Aquisition (Volume Hiring)

Instawork; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuting benefits

Food benefits

Job summary

Instawork in Bengaluru is seeking a high-energy Volume Hiring Manager to lead frontline recruitment operations. You will own scale, driving 100+ monthly hires across Operations and frontline teams. Leverage agency networks, mass-sourcing channels, and AI-assisted screening to optimize recruitment funnels.

You will lead a team of recruiters and HR interns, set daily targets, and collaborate with operations to forecast headcount and track conversions and cost-per-hire.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Talent Acquisition, with high-volume/bulk recruitment in fast-paced sectors.
• Experience owning end-to-end recruitment operations.
• Proven ability to drive 100+ frontline joins per month.

Responsibilities

• Scale & Strategy: plan and execute rapid-scale hiring drives to deliver 100+ joins per month.
• Vendor & Agency Management: onboard and manage staffing agencies with SLAs.
• Team Leadership: lead recruiters and HR interns, set targets and monitor performance.
• Pipeline & Funnel Optimization: own the candidate lifecycle with AI-driven screening.
• Referral Program Design: design high-conversion employee referral programs.
• Stakeholder & Data Management: forecast headcount and maintain hiring dashboards.

Skills

Volume Hiring

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Campaign management

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Tools

Fountain

Paradox

Job description

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.

Manager / Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

Experience: Minimum 6 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]

Role Overview

We are looking for a high-energy, proactive Volume Hiring Manager to lead our frontline recruitment operations. In this role, you will own scale—driving 100+ monthly hires across Operations and frontline teams. You will leverage your existing network of staffing agencies, design mass-sourcing channels, automate recruitment funnels, and lead a team to hit aggressive growth targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Scale & Strategy: Plan, organize, and execute rapid-scale hiring drives (both on-ground walk-ins and virtual mass events) to deliver 100+ joins per month.
• Vendor & Agency Management: Onboard, manage, and hold external staffing agencies and manpower vendors accountable to strict delivery SLAs, candidate quality, and cost targets.
• Team Leadership: Direct, train, and manage a high-velocity team of recruiters and HR interns—setting daily output targets, managing task allocation, and driving team performance.
• Pipeline & Funnel Optimization: Own the full candidate lifecycle. Implement modern sourcing strategies (WhatsApp/SMS bots, referral engines, AI-driven screening) to reduce drop-offs and shorten time-to-hire.
• Referral Program Design: Conceptualize and roll out high-conversion employee referral programs to turn existing staff into active sourcing channels.
• Stakeholder & Data Management: Partner with Operations leaders to forecast headcount needs and maintain real-time hiring dashboards tracking funnel conversions, cost-per-hire, and Day-30 retention.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Experience: 6+ years in Talent Acquisition, with a proven track record of directly owning high-volume/bulk recruitment in fast-paced sectors (e.g., BPO, Logistics, Quick-Commerce, Retail, or Sales).
• Agency Network: Strong, pre-existing relationships with frontline recruitment agencies and regional labor suppliers.
• Proven Track Record: Demonstrated ability to personally/operationally drive 100+ frontline joins per month.
• Tech-Savvy: Hands-on experience with high-volume ATS platforms (e.g., Fountain, Paradox) and AI-driven sourcing/screening tools.
• Leadership: Strong experience mentoring junior recruiters or HR interns in a fast-paced environment.
• Execution Focus: Exceptional drive, analytical mindset, and ability to troubleshoot drop-off rates at a moment's notice.

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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