Atul Kumar

Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India13 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in global talent acquisition and leadership hiring.
  • Proven track record in scaling product-based startups.
  • Strong vendor and stakeholder management skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in scaling tech and product teams for startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Global Talent AcquisitionLeadership HiringBusiness DevelopmentTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

Business StrategyClient AcquisitionClient EngagementConsultingExecutive SearchHiringLeadershipMarket ExpansionNetworkingOffersRangeRecruitmentRecruitment FrameworksSourcingStaffing

About

Founder & CEO at TalentSyker | Ex-Genpact & UnitedHealth Group | Tech Hiring Partner for Product-Based Startups I am an experienced Talent Acquisition leader with a strong background in global hiring, talent strategy, and HR management across India, Middle East, and SEA markets. With a demonstrated history in the outsourcing/offshoring industry, I specialize in helping product-based startups scale from 0 to growth stage by building world-class tech and product teams. Core Expertise: Global Talent Acquisition & Leadership Hiring Vendor Management & Negotiation Stakeholder Management HR Reporting, Compliance & Performance Management Talent Management & Efficiency Gains Market Mapping & Talent Intelligence I partner with clients to identify and hire amazing tech, data, and product talent, including: Leadership & Product Roles: CTO | Head of Engineering | VP Engineering | Engineering Managers | Head of Product | Product Director | Head of Design | Head of DevOps/SRE | QA Heads | Head of Data Science | Head of Data Engineering Tech & Data Roles: SDE I/II/III (Backend/Frontend) | DevOps | Data Engineer | Data Architect | Data Analyst | Data Scientist | SDET | Android Developer | iOS Developer | UI/UX Designer | Visual Designer | Product Manager If you are looking to build or scale your tech, product, and data teams, connect with me to explore opportunities. đź“© Email: atul@talentsyker.co.in

Experience

Talentsyker

Founder & CEO

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Delhi, India

  • Leading the overall vision, mission, and strategic direction of TalentSyker across India, SEA, the Middle East, the USA, and the UK.
  • Driving business growth and expansion across core verticals: Startup Hiring, HFT Hiring, GCC Builds, Executive Search, RPO, and Staff Augmentation.
  • Building and nurturing long-term partnerships with early-stage startups, global product companies, high-frequency trading firms, and enterprise clients.
  • Overseeing end-to-end business development, client acquisition, commercial discussions, and delivery excellence to ensure high-quality and high-speed hiring outcomes.
  • Developing scalable recruitment frameworks, adopting modern tools and technologies, and ensuring efficient delivery operations across all projects.
  • Leading, mentoring, and growing high-performing recruitment and leadership teams while fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and performance.
  • Owning P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning to ensure sustainable growth and profitability.
  • Strengthening TalentSyker’s brand through strategic positioning, industry engagement, content leadership, and market visibility.
  • Driving innovation in recruitment solutions, launching new service offerings, and expanding into new geographies and talent domains.
  • Ensuring strong governance, compliance, ethical hiring practices, data privacy, and risk management across all engagements.
Talent AcquisitionBusiness DevelopmentClient AcquisitionRecruitment FrameworksVendor ManagementStakeholder Management+2

Genpact

Manager (UK Market)

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021 · 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Optum

2 roles

Assistant Manager-Talent Acquisition

Oct 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Optum is a health services and innovation company on a mission to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone.
  • Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is powering modern health care by connecting and serving the whole health system across 150 countries. We combine cutting-edge technology, the world’s largest health care database and vast expertise to improve health care delivery, quality and efficiency. We are revolutionizing health care that serves more than 100,000 physicians, practices and other health care facilities, as well as 127 million individual consumers.
  • Responsibilities
  • Lead a team responsible for facilitating UHG talent acquisition processes and partnering with recruiters to ensure that all aspects of the hiring process are completed in a timely and accurate manner.

Talent Acquisition Lead

Oct 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Accountable for high volume recruiting delivery of both internal and RPO recruiters throughout mainland US and Puerto Rico. Responsible for driving talent acquisition strategy and direct management of Recruiters.

Genpact

2 roles

Senior Associate-Talent Acquisition Specialist

Promoted

Sep 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Recruitment & Sourcing [Handling End-To-End Recruitment Process]
  • Evaluate leadership experiences, cultural fit of top talent as they relate to specific client needs.
  • Provide candidates to the Client, identifying unique triggers that resonate with different
  • populations of talent.
  • Understand technical and functional points of the requirement and work closely on critical
  • positions along with team and maintain optimum productivity.
  • Getting the requisitions from the client and understanding the requirements directly from the
  • Hiring Leader through conference calls or meetings.
  • Screen candidates to ensure that their skills and experience are directly in line with the client’s
  • needs and expectations.
  • Recruiting the prospective candidate through multiple sources such as job portals, networking and
  • references.
  • Strong in networking and sourcing candidates; screening, identifying and engaging potential
  • candidates.
  • Conduct detailed validation of the candidates’ education, experience and flexibility to ensure
  • fitment.
  • Arranging for the telephonic interviews/videoconferences/F2F of the candidate with the client.

Associate-Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jul 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Technologies focused –
  • Identity & Access Management - IAM (ForgeRock, Pingfederate, Sailpoint, NetIQ, OIM, FIM/MIM, OKTA, CA Siteminder, ISIM/ISAM)
  • Privileged Access Management PAM (CyberArk Suite, BeyondTrust, CA PAM)
  • Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, IOT Security)
  • Solution & Delivery Architecture (Cybersecurity & IAM)
  • Conducting HR interviews to judge the candidate's suitability, Attitude, Academic & Professional qualification, experience, communication skills etc.
  • Actively involving in POA meetings and Weekend Interview Drives.
  • Expertise in Stakeholder management and Vendor management.
RecruitmentSourcingNetworkingTalent Acquisition

Education

Institute Of Marketing and Management

PGPWE

Jul 2010 – Apr 2012

Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Kanpur University, Kanpur

Bachelor's degree — English Literature (British and Commonwealth)

Jul 2007 – Mar 2010

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