Talent Acquisition Lead

About the Company

goSTOPS is India’s leading youth hostel brand, backed by Blume Ventures. With 30+ hostels live and scaling to 100+ in the next 24 months, we’re reimagining travel for Gen Z — social, design-first, and purpose-led. As we scale from a 250 to 1000+ strong team in under 2 years, building the right talent engine is mission-critical.

About the Role

We're hiring a Head of TA to solve a uniquely hard and meaningful problem: Hiring hundreds of high-quality blue/grey collar team members at speed, while factoring for high attrition, regional spread, and rising quality benchmarks. This isn’t a plug-and-play sourcing role. This needs a first-principles builder who can rethink how India hires for hospitality.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hiring for frontline roles: property managers, housekeepers, café crew, field ops and Central roles.
• Build alternate hiring engines: hotel schools, skill councils, NGOs, referrals, gig-to-full-time, rural channels
• Drive scale without compromising quality — build systems, not hacks
• Monitor and improve funnel metrics: TAT, source mix, cost/hire, offer-join ratio, post-join retention
• Partner closely with Ops, HRBP, and leadership to stay ahead of ground needs
• Lead a small, high-performance TA team with speed and ownership
• Represent goSTOPS with authenticity and energy in every candidate touchpoint

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of TA experience in hospitality, QSR, retail, logistics, cloud kitchens, or other scale-heavy businesses

Required Skills

• Proven success in frontline / volume hiring
• Analytical, creative, and systems-first — you can see patterns and solve root problems
• Deep empathy for the workforce and a desire to build real impact
• Strong operational rigor and execution mindset
• Passionate about fixing India’s service hiring gap, not just filling roles