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Amit Bhatia

Amit Bhatia

Chief Business Officer at Payscale and Co-founder of Datapeople

New York City Metropolitan Area
Joined January 2025
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Amit Bhatia is a seasoned entrepreneur with a unique background spanning investment banking and early-stage neural network engineering, which he leveraged to co-found Datapeople. His diverse experience underpins his ability to identify and address complex market inefficiencies, particularly within the recruiting technology space. frontlines
He is a visionary in recruiting intelligence, having spent four years bootstrapping a job search engine to deeply understand the market before launching Datapeople's product. This methodical, data-driven approach allowed him to pinpoint systemic issues in hiring, such as the impact of poorly written job descriptions, and develop solutions that significantly improve fairness and efficiency. frontlines+1
Amit is deeply committed to fostering equitable and inclusive hiring practices. Through Datapeople, he champions the use of AI and data science to mitigate biases (including racism, sexism, ageism, and ableism) in talent acquisition, transforming recruiting into a strategic advantage that benefits both companies and candidates from diverse backgrounds. forbes+1

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Datapeople Chief Executive Amit Bhatia Talks Series A Funding, More Inclusive Hiring Processes, More In Interview

June 27, 2023

An interview discussing Datapeople's Series A funding, its vision for inclusive hiring, and its mission to bring science into the hiring process to address biases like racism, sexism, ageism, and ableism.

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Amit Bhatia of Datapeople.io on the future of recruiting and the impact of human biases

May 6, 2021

An interview exploring how Datapeople leverages data and science to improve the recruitment process, focusing on the impact of human biases in hiring and ways to create more precise and equitable measurement.

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