Major Ride Hailing Firm to Hire 2,000 People Globally, From Engineers to Other Roles: Details Here

Amid the pandemic and crisis, top ride hailing firm Ola Electric Mobility Pvt Ltd, plans to hire about 2,000 people globally. The Ola Electric Mobility Pvt Ltd  is the electric vehicle arm of Ola Cabs. 

The top firm currently aims to build electric vehicles across segments while developing batteries as a service or BaaS applications for shared mobility.

As per a LiveMint report, in an internal email to employees, Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and chief executive officer, announced that the company aims to build electric vehicles and to achieve it they would hire 1,000 engineers globally over the next 3 months and another 1,000 people across other roles.

“Our aim is to build electric vehicle products and BaaS systems for a global market and across all the segments. We will soon be launching many new programs towards this. To achieve this, we will be launching a large hiring initiative to hire over 1000 engineers globally over the next quarter and another 1000 people across other functions," Aggarwal said in this email. 

Further in the mail, Aggarwal claimed that his team is working to launch Ola Electric’s first product, which would be an electric scooter. “We will be starting an organizational restructuring," Aggarwal said in his email. He also added that the restructuring will be aimed at making Ola Electric into a global engineering organization.

“This will involve changes in our organization structure to make it more streamlined with clear KRAs, KPIs and reporting lines, integrate our Etergo colleagues into a single global engineering organization, and enable more systematic and structured, cross functional work across the lifecycle of product development," Aggarwal said. 

Meanwhile earlier in the month, the ministry of road transport and highways had issued an order that allows sale and registration of EVs without the batteries that account for 40 percent of total vehicle cost.