AI shift forces skills rethink at India tech hubs, Kimberly-Clark executive says

AI is reshaping hiring and job roles at India’s booming offshore centres, with companies placing less emphasis on coding and more on domain and product skills, a senior Kimberly-Clark executive said.

The US-based consumer goods maker is increasingly seeking workers who can apply technology to business problems rather ‌than write code, ⁠as ⁠automation tools begin to handle routine programming tasks, Deena Dayalan, the global head of digital ​operations and cloud transformation, told the Reuters summit in Bengaluru.