Alibaba jumps on community group-buying bandwagon in new recruitment drive


Alibaba joins Pinduoduo, Meituan, Didi Chuxing, JD.com and other Internet giants in investing in China’s latest online shopping trend. The e-commerce giant’s community group buying business is hiring for dozens of positions. — SCMP

Alibaba Group Holding, the owner of China’s largest e-commerce platform, has started a recruitment drive for its community group-buying business amid heated competition in the burgeoning sector.

Between Sunday and Wednesday, the Hangzhou-based tech giant and owner of the South China Morning Post, posted 57 vacancies on its recruitment website under a team called MMC. The positions are based in 19 first- to third-tier Chinese cities, including Wuhan, Nanchang, Changsha, Chengdu and Guangzhou, and cover a variety of job functions from warehouse operations and fresh food purchasing to back-end programming.

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