Seeing Explosive Growth, Voice AI Company, Skit Looks To Hire 1000 People In The Year 2022

17 Nov, 2021 15:16 IST|Sakshi Post

With over 200 employees as of October 2021, Skit targets onboarding 1,000 fresh hires by December 2022 across diverse roles and skill-sets.

The company intends to significantly scale its operations across India, Southeast Asia, and the US with key leadership and talent additions in business and technical roles.

The majority of the positions are available across India, while more sales and marketing-driven roles are being prioritised in the US and Southeast Asian markets.

Bengaluru: Skit, a leading voice AI company, announced that it will hire 1,000 employees in the coming year, the most in the company's history, across diverse roles and dynamic skill-sets for strategic business and technical expansion. The company is now gearing up to meet the ever-growing demand for executing projects as it develops its team to cater to global enterprise customers and solve contact centre queries for a wider demographic.

Since its inception, the company has strengthened its workforce by over 6x, to over 200 employees, and has built a strong partner ecosystem covering multiple industries such as banking, insurance, eCommerce, consumer durables, travel & hospitality, logistics, among others, to support its growing revenue and customer base. Currently, the company is hiring for positions including key senior appointments across product, engineering, revenue, marketing, board appointments, human resources, and growth teams. Additionally, Skit plans to onboard CXO roles for a product, marketing, and delivery to further solidify its leadership rung.

While ensuring scheduled appraisals, bonuses, and promotions for current employees, Skit is now aggressively hiring across three primary markets: the United States, Southeast Asia, and India. Having recently raised a Series B round of USD 23 million, Skit has resolved to further entrench its voice solutions in current markets as well as more mature and receptive markets such as the United States.

 "Our product, VIVA, is backed by over 10 million hours of training data and the ability to sense underlying emotions and intent, has been engineered to confront the nuances and unique requirements of the contemporary landscape. With the aim of scaling the company by 10x in the coming year, our priority is to first augment our sales, delivery, and tech teams, who will be at the forefront of Skit’s explosive growth trajectory. We are currently investing in skilled and talented individuals who will drive this success and innovate to build an ecosystem of natural human and machine conversations, creating a world where voice interfaces are the primary ones," said Sourabh Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Skit.

 In the US and Southeast Asian markets, the company will focus on bolstering sales and marketing roles, along with filling niche requirements for high-quality data annotation. However, the majority of the hiring will happen in India, including both technical and business aspects, for lateral and fresh candidates in a product, marketing, sales, machine learning, engineering, delivery, data annotation, HR/recruitment, and CXO roles.

As of September 2021, Skit’s total fundraising is USD 30 million. The global contact centre market size is expected to grow steadily and reach a value of 496 billion US dollars by 2027. The company aims to further accelerate this growth by using voice tech innovation to personalise caller engagements and deliver up to a 60% cost reduction by offering a voice-first experience.

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