Indeed has appointed Jim Giles as Chief Technology Officer, based in Austin, Texas, where he will lead the company’s technical strategy and global engineering organization.
He steps into the role as artificial intelligence increasingly reshapes the hiring landscape. In his new role, Giles will oversee the continued development of Indeed’s technology platform, with an emphasis on using AI to improve how people connect with jobs and how employers identify and hire talent.
CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba said Giles brings deep experience leading technology at global scale.
“Jim is a proven engineering leader with deep experience scaling technology used around the world,” Idekoba said. “As hiring enters a new era, his forward-thinking approach to applying AI will help drive a step-change in our platform—ensuring our technology is built to simplify hiring and fuel Indeed’s long-term growth.”
Giles joins from Google, where he most recently served as Vice President of Engineering, overseeing products used by more than a billion people worldwide, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. While there, he helped advance the company’s shift to an AI-first product strategy and founded the Workspace AI platform to support AI development across products.
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