Associate Director – Talent Acquisition (Tech)

JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. The company was formed with the recent merger of RIL’s Viacom18 and Star Disney, It operates over 100 television channels across iconic brands such as Star Plus, Colors, MTV etc. and has an aggregate subscription base of over 200 million on its streaming platform JioHotStar (formed by bringing together JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar - two of India’s leading platforms for premium sports, entertainment and lots more).

Reliance Industries holds a 56% controlling stake, Disney owns 37%, and BodhiTree Systems holds the remaining 7% stake in JioStar. This unique joint venture brings together the companies’ content creation and curation prowess, world-class digital streaming capabilities along with a digital first approach that will help deliver unparallelled content choices at affordable prices to Indian viewers and the Indian diaspora globally.

With its Head office in Mumbai, JioStar employees over 6500 people globally across its Entertainment, Digital (Tech, Non-Tech) and Sports business units.

Job Summary

• This role will lead hiring for the Technology business unit and will be responsible to deliver a hiring volume.
• Associate Director - TA will work closely with the business and HR teams to provide strategic and operational support to lead and execute against talent acquisition needs and deliver world class candidate and employee experience to JioStar’s talent.
• This includes translating business needs into executable staffing plans for medium to high complexity business roles by owning and executing end-to-end staffing and recruiting planning to onboarding of talent our business needs to be successful; as well as delivering world-class candidate and employee experiences.

Key Responsibilities-

• Translating business needs into strategic and executable staffing plans for one large/ complex or multiple business segments or sub-segments/ functions
• Establishing credible, well respected long-term partnerships with hiring managers, candidates, and other stakeholders
• Providing strategic direction and consulting to the business regarding talent marketplace trends, competitive intelligence, industry knowledge and recruiting trends
• Routinely partnering with sourcing for advancing and executing sourcing and networking plans aligned to business deliverables as well as managing advanced searches or projects by self with project management methodology inclusive of recapping strategy meetings and developing search plans.
• Leveraging advanced talent profiles, behavioral interviewing, and assessments and data insights for aiding in informed talent decisions
• Negotiate offers and communicate important employment information to candidates; follow up with candidates and hiring managers to obtain feedback regarding recruitment.
• Effectively articulating the business case for diversity and being able to drive and influence a diverse slate.
• Leading and executing recruitment strategies independently with key partners for specified roles, multiple needs, and/or opportunistic talent
• Coaching new hiring managers on recruitment process, their specific roles and responsibilities and experience/ deliverables expectations
• Participating in or leading work streams responsible for designing solutions for multiple sites and segments, multiple LOB’s, businesses in various geographic regions or enterprise wide (Ex: building talent communities, leading efforts to represent the company at conferences, networking events & talent days, TA marketing plans/projects)
• Providing Talent Acquisition expertise during times of organizational change and redesign
• Leveraging advanced data and analytics for workforce plans to drive business insights and exhibits capability to ‘tell the story’ found within the data
• Leading a team of recruiters and coordinators, directly or indirectly

Performance Measures-

• Design and delivery on the talent acquisition agenda for the year
• Talent acquisition metrics on quality, quantity, diversity, costs, SLA and experience, that will be set along with goals for the year.

Qualification and Experience

• Postgraduate or graduate in HR or Psychology preferred.
• 10+ years of experience as a talent acquisition expert with prior experience of managing teams.
• Experience of hiring across functions such as Product & Engineering is desired.
• Demonstrated experience in providing strategic direction and consulting to business regarding talent marketplace trends, competitive intelligence, and recruiting trends.
• Working experience in advanced sourcing, behavioral interviewing, and assessments; and offer making process, particularly with mid to senior candidates
• Experience of advanced hiring practices, social media, networking and TA tools and systems
• Experience in designing innovative recruitment strategies aligned to current or forecasted talent for specified roles, multiple needs, and/or opportunistic talent

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous setup.
• Ability to solve complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Ability to mentor colleagues with less experience
• Strong networker, with passion to cultivate and nurture long term relationships.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with ability to assert and collaborate.
• Exhibits a balanced approach for listening and understanding needs, while driving and delivering desired results
• Ability to draw insights from data and judgment, and be able to leverage storytelling effectively to influence stakeholder decisions
• Ability to prioritize and complete projects within deadlines