Head - Talent Acquisition - Travel Startup

Premium HR B-School Candidates Preferred.

(XLRI Jamshedpur, TISS, SIBM, SCMHRD, XIBM, IMI, IIM'S, NMIMS, JBIMS, etc).

About MetaMorph:

We at MetaMorph, empower startups to scale and innovate by placing people at the centre of their strategy.

With a proven track record of supporting over 220 startups, we specialise in aligning talent with organizational needs, enhancing employee skills, and transforming employer brands.

Our data-driven insights fuel decision-making and provide comprehensive support for both acquisition and being acquired, ensuring you are covered from every angle360.

About our Client:

Our client is creating a modern hospitality brand focused on young, design-conscious travelers.

These are social, experience-led hostels built to resonate with the next generation.

Backed by a leading VC, they are expanding aggressively scaling from 30 to 100 properties and targeting a 5x revenue growth in the next two years.

Their vision is to define and lead this emerging space within India's travel industry.

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 isnt 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.

- 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 the organization 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.

- 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 Indias service hiring gap, not just filling roles.