Kumar Akash

Recruiter

Pune, Maharashtra, India8 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

8+ years in talent acquisition for tech-driven organizations
Expert in end-to-end hiring and employer branding
Strong stakeholder partnership and market mapping skills

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in SaaS and tech-driven startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

End-to-end RecruitmentEngineering HiringEmployer BrandingFull Life Cycle RecruitingStartup Hiring

Other Skills

CXO PartnershipCompensation BenchmarkingExecutive SearchGo-to-market StrategyLeadershipSalary BenchmarkingStakeholder ManagementTechnical RecruitingWorkforce Planning

About

I am a Senior Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Partner with 8+ years of experience helping startups, scale-ups, and tech-driven organizations build high-performing teams across Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, and Leadership roles. I specialize in end-to-end hiring, partnering closely with Founders, CXOs, Engineering Managers, and Business Leaders to translate business goals into scalable hiring strategies. My experience includes building recruitment functions from scratch, scaling teams rapidly, and hiring for niche and business-critical roles in competitive markets. Over the years, I’ve worked across fintech, product companies, consumer tech, and high-growth startups, where I’ve consistently delivered results through: -Strong stakeholder partnership -Deep market mapping & passive sourcing -Data-backed workforce planning -Structured interview and candidate experience frameworks I am particularly passionate about improving hiring quality, reducing time-to-hire, and strengthening employer branding through community engagement, tech events, and storytelling. Core focus areas: Tech & Leadership Hiring | Startup & Scale-up Hiring | GCC & Product Companies | Employer Branding | Hiring Strategy Always open to connecting with talent leaders, founders, hiring managers, and recruiters.

Experience

Entain india

Senior Recruitment Partner

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

One of the first recruitment hires responsible for establishing and scaling the Pune hiring function for a global product-led organization.
Drive end-to-end technical recruitment including talent sourcing, technical screening, stakeholder alignment, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
Partner closely with Engineering Leaders, Hiring Managers, and Business Stakeholders to translate business goals into workforce plans and hiring roadmaps.
Lead high-volume and niche technical hiring across backend, frontend, platform, and specialized engineering roles.
Spearheaded employer branding initiatives through tech meetups, industry events (TechBrews), online campaigns, and community engagement to strengthen market presence.
Designed and implemented structured candidate experience and post-offer engagement frameworks, improving offer acceptance and early-stage retention.
Support onboarding and employee engagement initiatives, contributing to strong early employee integration and culture building.

End-to-End RecruitmentEngineering HiringWorkforce PlanningStakeholder ManagementCXO Partnership

Drivetrain

Talent Partner

Aug 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Led full-cycle hiring across Engineering, Product, Design, Growth Marketing, Product Marketing, and Business roles for a fast-growing SaaS startup.
Acted as a strategic hiring partner to Founders and Senior Leadership, defining role charters, hiring priorities, and long-term recruitment roadmaps.
Built and maintained strong passive talent pipelines using LinkedIn Recruiter, market mapping, referrals, and niche sourcing channels.
Advised leadership on market trends, salary benchmarks, talent availability, and competitive hiring insights to enable informed hiring decisions.
Ensured seamless coordination between candidates, interview panels, and leadership while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience.
Played an active role in strengthening recruitment processes, interview structures, and stakeholder communication

Full Life Cycle RecruitingStartup HiringSalary Benchmarking

Anar business community app

Talent Acquisition Manager

Dec 2021 – Jul 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

I was taking care of the overall hiring process at Anar.
Conducted applicant pre-screening and interviews.
Worked closely with the founders and the Engineering leads and spearheaded the entire recruitment process.
Coordinated with different agencies to get the right set of candidates.

Jupiter

Talent Acquisition

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Was taking care of the Engineering hiring at Jupiter Money.
Leveraged social media platforms and online job boards to advertise open positions and engage with potential candidates.
Followed up with notable applicants sourced via industry-specific pipelines, events and job fairs.
Generated specific candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
Have closed specific positions like Devops, Backend, Security Engineer.
Was involved in structuring the hiring process across all levels.

Wmall (blitzscale tech)

Talent Acquisition

Oct 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Appointed as the first HR in the company.
Spear headed and took care of the entire hiring process at WMall.
Worked with the Hiring Managers on understanding their requirements and helped in building teams to meet their needs across different verticals.
Worked closely with the Co-Founders and in making the hiring process more efficient for the hiring managers and a smooth experience for the candidates.
Was highly engaged in implementing various strategies which benefited the company, all while simultaneously on boarding the employees across various teams.
Along with the responsibility of the onboarding process, I've also assisted in the appraisal cycle of all our employees.
Assisted the accounts team in the payroll process.

Anzy careers

3 roles

ASTF || Anzy Special Task Force

Mar 2019 – Oct 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Successfully Placing Engineering or Product Leaders across the industry with rich experience going through the full software life cycle of requirements, design, coding/testing best practices and continuous integration in delivering world class software and services.
As part of the task force ,currently involved in hiring tech leaders across all levels .

Senior Recruitment Consultant/Team Lead

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I was handling a team of 4. Along with end to end recruitment was also involved in mentoring the team.
Was involved in monthly team planning and was also looking into the P&L of the team.
Has closed some crucial senior positions for our clients.
Have synced up with my manager and other leads in making the team more productive by organizing various brainstorming sessions and 1 on 1 meetings with the team.
Doing Market Research using portals in order to know the pool availability using different resourcing strategies.
Interacting with candidates, initial screening, interviewing for meeting hiring needs.
Managing a healthy pipeline of candidates against all the demands.
Making good relationships with the clients and delivering the result on the given timeline.
Involved in Full Life Cycle of Recruitment involving sourcing, identifying, interviewing, screening, and placing personnel in quick Turn-Around-Time (TAT).
Responsible for Ramping up all pursuit & Projects positions on location perspective and across delivery centers in India.
Mentoring juniors and assigning them work based on the client requirement.