Jerry Hu

HR Manager

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore9 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

12+ years of regional expertise across APAC, EMEA, and the US.
Built and led teams of 20+ in diverse environments.
Thought leader and speaker at renowned institutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition and HR leader with expertise in scaling teams in high-growth environments.

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EntrepreneurshipStrategyBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyVenture CapitalStart-upsMarket ResearchOnline MarketingFinancial ModelingMergers & AcquisitionsMarketing StrategyPrivate EquityCRMConsultingDue Diligence

About

Multilingual (Chinese, Japanese and English), hands-on Talent leader with 12+ years of regional expertise across APAC (including Japan, China, and Australia), EMEA and the US. 7+ years of MNC and startup experience 0-1 building up and leading teams up to 20+, with diverse exposure spanning HR Business Partnering, Workforce Planning, People Analytics, and Talent Intelligence. Thought leader, Speaker and Guest lecturer at industry-renowned institutions including Marcus Evans Group, Nanyang Technological University and AIHR (Academy to Innovate HR). Author & Creator of SCALE UP book and podcast series. Outside of work, I benefit from the discipline, compassion, and introspection through 15 years of yoga and meditation practice.

Experience

Hilton

Senior Manager, Hotel Recruitment APAC

Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Singapore · On-site

Lenskart.com

Talent Acquisition Lead, International

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Singapore · On-site

Lenskart (parent company of OWNDAYS) is Asia’s largest tech-enabled eyewear company serving 1b+ users, with more than 3000 omnichannel stores across 200+ cities worldwide. Lenskart is valued at $10b as of 2025, with a $1b run rate for FY24 (67% YoY growth), and major investments from Tamasek, SoftBank, KKR, and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). Lenskart (NSE: LENS) debuted on November 10, 2025, following an $800m+ IPO.

Amazon web services (aws)

Sr. Talent Acquisition Lead, Asia Pacific, Japan & China

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Singapore · Hybrid

Amazon Web Services is a fully owned subsidiary of Amazon (2023 world's most valuable brand, worth $299.3 billion). Since the launch in 2006 by Andy Jassy (current Group CEO of Amazon), AWS has been the most profitable business and consistently ranked as the No.1 market leader in the cloud infrastructure space (33% market share, 2022), $79b revenue (Q2 2022) with 33% YoY growth. We have over 3000+ products and 200+ fully featured services from compute, storage, database, networking, security and application.

Doctor anywhere

Global Head of Talent Acquisition

Jan 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

Doctor Anywhere is a series C ($500m valuation as of 2022) omni-channel health-tech startup, headquartered in Singapore with regional presence across Southeast Asia and India. Our product offerings include virtual consultation (telemedicine), E-commerce marketplace (2.5m+ users), payment (DA wallet) and offline clinic services & pharmacy stores (12 in Singapore and 200+ GP partners across SEA).
0-1 built up a 20-person TA team, scaled the company from 300 to 800 FTE across Southeast Asia and India.
Developed and promoted 2 IC recruiters to people manager and 1 TA manager to take over for succession planning.
Recognized as a top startup by LinkedIn and best employer by ITviec, while leading impactful diversity initiatives that increased female tech representation by 50% and supported LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Singtel

Group Associate Director, Talent Intelligence & Analytics

Jan 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

- 0-1 built up the Talent Intelligence & Analytics function (with $200k+ cost-saving YoY) for Singtel Group across 3 legal entities (Singtel, NCS and Optus) including Singapore and Australia, supporting a 60-person TA team with 6000+ YoY HC growth.

Alibaba group

Talent Acquisition Manager, HRBP & Head of Talent Intelligence

Jan 2015 – Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Hangzhou, San Francisco

Joined the company right after $25b IPO ($231b valuation) - world's largest IPO by far, part of the founding TA COE team. Progressed from recruiter to TA manager, with a global team of 10 across China, India and Indonesia. Responsible for hiring across several businesses including cloud, e-commerce and digital entertainment, with an avg. YoY 1000+ HC fulfillment.
0-1 built up a Talent Intelligence function supporting executive search, sourcing & mapping for niche roles, reporting & dashboards and business/market research. A team of 6, including data scientists, researchers and consultants.
1 year international assignment in San Francisco to support global expansion. Also acted as HRBP for a new business in sports tech 0-1 built up the HR framework for 300 FTE series A company.