Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Working closely with the co-founders to develop an AI recruitment tool that tackles the hiring challenges faced by startups and mid-sized companies.

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Your new role is just a wag away! 🐾
• This is for you if:
• You're new to Canada and navigating the labor market.
• You're transitioning into startups or tech in Canada/US.
• You're a new grad.
• Or, you're simply looking for a new role and need guidance from someone who knows how hiring managers think and make decisions.
• I specialize in helping clients land tech roles through job search strategies, career planning, resume building, interview prep, and LinkedIn optimization.

Jan 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Canada · Remote

• Insurtech, B2C start-up based in Toronto
• Hired 60+ Early Team Members: Successfully recruited talent across engineering, growth, design, GTM, and product from junior to senior leadership roles during the company's growth from Seed funding to Series A of $18 million.
• Innovative Recruitment Strategies: Headhunted top talent in Canada and LATAM using advanced methods beyond LinkedIn, including Boolean searches, Stack Overflow, GitHub, Gem, Discord, and tech Slack channels, achieving a 50% engagement rate.
• Developed Playbooks: Created comprehensive recruitment and onboarding playbooks.
• Collaborated with Hiring Managers: Partnered with hiring managers throughout the recruitment process, from sourcing to hiring top talent.
• Implemented Recruitment Metrics: Introduced metrics like time to fill, cost to hire, and attrition to improve hiring quality, candidate experience, and retention.
• Diverse Talent Strategies: Developed recruitment strategies to attract diverse talent with a minimal budget.
• Enhanced Employer Branding: Led PolicyMe's employer branding efforts, creating content that increased LinkedIn and social media presence, boosting brand visibility by 60%.

Mar 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• US-based, DevOps-Android software, B2B start-up that raised 60M in series C in 2021.
• As one of the first hires for the people team, I managed recruitment, onboarding, HR policies, and administration processes as the company grew from Seed funding to a $30 million Series B round.
• Supported the leadership and managers with their day to day employee related activities.
• Owned employees experience, on-boarding, performance management and training initiatives.
• Responsible for innovating, initiating and executing HR related matters, policies and procedures.
• Introduced multiple engagement activities, feedback survey, F2F sessions to improve team bonding and enrich morale.
• Led full recruitment lifecycle and hired early team members for software development, product, marketing, operations, and sales for US and India offices.

Nov 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Owned the complete recruitment lifecycle from sourcing to closure of multiple positions for the company.
• Drove the new joiner on-boarding as well as off-boarding process for the organisation.

May 2018 – Nov 2018 · 6 mos · India

• Hired exceptional folks in Tech, Marketing and Design teams. A key member of any decision-making process regarding employee communication, job evaluation, payroll and exit formalities.
• I was responsible for:
• Managed end - to - end recruitment process; sourcing and screening through offer negotiations, placement and on-boarding.
• Looking over the day to day operations, managing finance, accounts, tax and working on market research.

Jul 2017 – May 2018 · 10 mos · India

• Worked on Audit engagements, analyzing the financial data and interpreting them.
• I was responsible for:
• Reviewing, Analysing and interpreting the financial data.
• Linking of Audited Financial Statements with the TB's.
• Preparation of Bank Confirmation and Authorization letters.

May 2016 – Jun 2016 · 1 mo · India

• Worked in Quechua, Trekking department. This internship was a very interesting one, where I was assisting customers who are interested in buying trekking equipments.
• My other responsibilities included maintain sales volume, product mix and selling by keeping current with supply and demand.