Manish Jha
Product Lead | Founder | Hospitality Tech
Intelligence Driven Recruitment • B2B & B2B2C • Career Infrastructure
I build systems that solve structural problems in hospitality hiring and career mobility.
14+ years in recruitment and education consulting. Moved from operating within the system to rebuilding it.
Journey: Traditional recruitment → Lean WordPress portal → Intelligent hiring infrastructure → Product led ecosystem
Philosophy
Most platforms are
Databases
I build decision engines
Most businesses sell
Access
I build talent pipelines
Most founders focus on
Features
I focus on outcomes
What matters: Problem clarity • Friction removal • Speed to value • Revenue alignment • Category depth
Global Hospitality Portal
Built a lean WordPress based portal serving hotels and professionals across multiple markets. Custom plugins. No heavy funding. Just problem clarity and execution.
Key Learnings
- Recruiters want filtered profiles, not more profiles
- Chef hiring behaves differently from Front Office hiring
- Manual screening is the biggest hidden cost
- Speed directly impacts hotel operations
These gaps led directly to SOEGi. From lean validation to intelligent infrastructure.
SOEGi: Intelligent Hiring for Hospitality
Not another job board. A vertical intelligent hiring engine built for hospitality.
How It Works
Prompt Based Job Creation
2 line input. System generates structured JD, skills, role mapping. Speed and consistency.
Intelligent Matching
Maps skill depth, department relevance, experience alignment. Visible match scores.
Custom Workflows
Chef hiring isn’t Front Office hiring. Custom stages for each department’s unique flow.
Pipeline Visibility
Matched profiles, applied candidates, stage wise movement, decision tracking.
North Star Metric: Successful intelligently matched closures within defined time frame.
Product Leadership Strengths
Domain Depth: I understand hotel HR psychology, operational hiring pain, campus to career transitions. This reduces product assumption errors.
Revenue Aligned: Every feature answers: Does this increase closure probability? Reduce recruiter time? Increase retention? If not, it doesn’t get built.
B2B2C Marketplace: Recruiters need relevance. Candidates need visibility. Balance requires quality control, smart distribution, intelligent matching, clear monetization.
Vertical Focus: Not horizontal expansion. Category depth in hospitality. Can evolve into skill verification, micro credentials, career advisor, mobility engine, workforce intelligence.
Core Skills
Background
Started in hospitality operations (F&B management at Menzies Hotels, UK). Moved into recruitment and education consulting. Built products to solve problems I saw firsthand.
I am a product leader because I identified problems through operational exposure, validated through industry relationships, built lean MVPs, iterated based on recruiter feedback, structured workflows for hospitality, aligned revenue with value delivery, and positioned the category with vertical clarity.
Founder builds. Product Lead scales with structure. I do both.
Education
MBA
Warwick Business School, UK (with module at IIM Ahmedabad)
B.Sc. (Hons) International Business Management
University of Salford, UK
Swiss Diploma in Hospitality Management
SHMS Montreux, Switzerland
Let’s Connect
Hospitality hiring globally is still fragmented, manual, inefficient.
I am building systems that structure it. Not chasing funding. Building category depth.
For founders, investors, hospitality groups, technology partners: If you are serious about vertical intelligence in hospitality—let’s talk.