Vidhya Dinakaran (She/Her/Hers)

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Increased offer success rate by 28% at Google.
  • Led impactful DEI initiatives at Amazon.
  • Designed and executed candidate preparation programs.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic talent acquisition specialist with a focus on SaaS and technical recruiting.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionProgram Management

Other Skills

Benefits NegotiationDiversity & InclusionHuman ResourcesHuman Resources (HR)IT RecruitmentInformation TechnologyInternet RecruitingInterviewingJob Description DevelopmentMentoringNetworkingOnboardingRecruitingSalary NegotiationsScreening

About

Strategic Recruiting Specialist and Program Leader with a proven record of driving senior tech hiring and scalable talent readiness initiatives across Google Cloud and 2C.I lead high impact programs like Project catalyst/Pathway to Google, improving offer success by 28% and enhancing candidate experience globally. Previously at Amazon, I program managed multiple DEI initiatives- including launching the first country specific DEI landing page-demonstrating strong ability to design, operationalize and scale cross-functional programs that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Google

Talent Acquisition & Program Lead

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • I am Leading strategic hiring initiatives for senior leadership roles (Architects, Engineering Managers) within Google Cloud, driving full life cycle recruitment across sourcing, assessment, offer and onboarding.
  • Own end to end recruitment strategy for the cloud security business, aligning talent acquisition with business priorities while maintaining a balance between quality of hire and turnaround time.
  • Partner functionally with recruiters, hiring managers, and business leaders to conduct weekly progress meetings, share hiring insights and ensure transparent, data driven decision making.
  • Deliver stakeholder excellence through market mapping and Intelligence reports, guiding leaders on talent availability, hiring feasibility and strategic recruitment planning.
  • Designed and leading “Pathway To Google”, a candidate preparation program for Google Cloud focused on preparing L6/L7 individual contributors and Engineering Managers through structured system design and coding workshops.
  • Functioning as program manager, overseeing end to end execution including content design, workshop delivery, stakeholder alignment, panel calibration, and impact measurement.
  • Scaled the program’s reach by expanding it beyond Google Cloud to the 2C team, rebranding it under the “Pathway to Google” initiative- driving wide adoption of the candidate preparation model.
  • Increased offer success rate by 28% YOY(2024 vs 2025) and improved candidate to offer conversion metrics by 25% directly contributing to hiring efficiency and quality.
  • Built a facilitator network and led calibration sessions to add new facilitators that resulted in increased number of workshops in Q2,Q3 when there was a higher volume of candidates in the pipeline.
  • Recognized twice for driving scalable, data-driven programs that enhanced candidate success, interviewer readiness, and talent brand perception across Google Cloud and 2C.
Program ManagementSourcingRecruitingStakeholder ManagementTalent ManagementTalent Acquisition

Amazon development center

Lead Talent Aquisition Partner

Apr 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Senior Recruiting Partner, hiring Technical Leaders/ Architects/ Principle Engineers for Amazon to solve some of the hard problems we are chasing today.
  • Feel free to reach me at viddinak@amazon.com to start our conversations.
SourcingRecruitingStakeholder ManagementTalent Acquisition

Publicis sapient

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Mar 2019Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Active member of Publicis.Sapient's transformation from consulting to product engineering.
  • Senior Recruiter/Talent Advisor for the product engineering team in Bangalore
  • Hiring the top engineers from industry for building a top notch engineering team in Bangalore
  • Position handled: SDE 2/ SDE 3/SDM/Principal Architect/VP/HOE for internet product team.
  • Part of Digital Transformation project for evaluation on the internal candidate.
  • Skills Hired for: - Java, Micro-services, NodeJS, DevOps, Cloud, Go Lang, API,UI
SourcingRecruitingStakeholder ManagementTalent Acquisition

Ge digital

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Mar 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Come join me at GE Digital.
  • We are a high-performance team looking for others at all levels who want to be part of innovative IOT projects.
  • Know more about us - https://www.ge.com/digital/
  • About our Software Products –
  • Predix - https://www.ge.com/digital/predix
  • APM- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LnVZaoiClUU
  • Check out our jobs at www.ge.com/careers.
  • If you are passionate about Machine learning,AI, Deep Learning,Data Science,Data Engineering,UX Designing,Development(Full stack,Mean Stack,Front-end,Back-end),
  • Please email me your resume to process your application faster. Email me at: vidhya.dinakaran@ge.com
SourcingRecruitingTalent Acquisition

Sutherland labs

Senior Specialist-HR

Mar 2015Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Concentrix technologies india pvt ltd

Senior Executive HR

Sep 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Education

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor’s Degree

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Sunbeam Matriculation Higher Secondary School

High School — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2007

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