Vinaya Yadgiri

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in technical recruiting for high-growth startups.
Successfully scaled teams from 15 to over 120 engineers.
Innovative use of AI tools to streamline recruitment processes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in SaaS and high-growth startup environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

AI ToolsApplicant Tracking SystemsData AnalysisData IntegrityEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsGreenhouseHuman Resources Information Systems (HRIS)LeverMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordNotionOnboardingRecruitingSourcing

About

Results-driven recruiting professional with 9+ years of experience in talent acquisition and candidate management with over 2+ years of experience in leading recruiting teams.. Proven track record of successfully identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier candidates across diverse industries. Adept at leveraging various sourcing strategies, ATS platforms, and social media to build robust candidate pipelines. Strong relationship-building skills and a collaborative approach to partner effectively with hiring managers. Having been part of core tech hiring teams of high-growth product startups based in India and the US, I am a niche talent acquisition specialist who has also been involved with the setup of new R&D units. I have worked directly or on contract with Tier 1 startups & global product companies including Flipkart, Walmart, Amazon, Uber, Myntra, Swiggy, MoEngage, Acko & WeInvest in the past. I engage with an active network of top-tier talent across the globe. An engineer by training, who chose to move into the HR function, I understand tech stacks well and work directly with CXOs and Function Heads who have to hire unique talent within a short span.

Experience

9 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Apollo.io

Founding Recruiter | Senior Technical Recruiter II

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Joined as 1st Technical Recruiter in India & 2nd globally.
Early Stage Talent Advisor for Hard to Fill Sourcing A-players, Flagship FullCycle Recruitment, Talent-Pipelining & Brand Ambassador.
Closely working with Founder/CEO, VP and Engineering Leaders in solving the tech hiring challenges and building a world-class team of A-players in India and globally.
Instrumental in scaling up the tech team from 15 to 120+ across APAC and NAM with an offer - acceptance rate of more than 75%.Successfully identified and Recruiter top tier engineers across the levels (Backend, Frontend, Fullstack, QA, EM)
Scaled up APAC TA team from the ground up. Onboarding and training new team members. Partnered with the Talent Ops team to revamp our onboarding process for recruiters as the team was scaling.
Spearheading hiring strategies and gathering insights and building data to identify overall funnel growth for the team, time to hire, interview loop analysis, reasons for downlevels, and presenting the same with the leadership team.
Designed a recruiting screening handbook in notion for all the India recruitment processes (Sourcing, Screening, Selling, Interview Prep guide)
Developed customized reports using ATS (Greenhouse and Gem) data to analyze recruitment metrics and support data-driven decision-making.
Handled campus hires and hired best talents from Tier-1/Tier-2 colleges pan India
AI Mindset
Single handedly created GPT bot for streamlining the Offer Approval drafts (Bot summarized the debrief verdict, tells us if the proposed offer is within the band and also calculator %hike
Using GPT bot for initiating the debrief to avoid unconscious bias (bot summarizes all interview scorecards, analyzes the competencies against CGP for each level and gives the detailed verdict
Using ChatGPT to analyze the pattern of interview feedback for each round and suggests the improvements

RecruitingSourcingTechnical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionData AnalysisOnboarding+3

Weinvest - digital wealth platform

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Tech Recruitment)

Oct 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Independently handled Full-cycle tech recruiting process and built the engineering team from scratch.
Directly worked with COO, CTO, Head of Engineering and other Engineering leaders and led the hiring efforts on Senior/Mid Senior roles like Sr. Engineering Managers, Engineering managers, Lead engineers, SDEs.
Successfully built the tech team and scaled up from 15 to 96+ across Bengaluru and Chennai
Influence hiring managers on their hiring strategy. Built Market Insights and cultural nuances for hiring engineering talents.
Employee engagement, coordinating for events, organizing tactical engagement activities and sessions.
Drive offer process - including extending offers, negotiations, closing candidates, and generating offer letters
Demonstrated data Integrity and ability to understand data to help influence hiring decisions

Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingEmployee EngagementData Integrity

Anzy careers

2 roles

Senior Recruitment Specialist

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Sep 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Built engineering and product teams from scratch in most of the early stage startups and mid-size product companies.
Responsible for the full life cycle recruiting process, which includes: sourcing, evaluating, interviewing and closing of candidates.
Responsibilities include sourcing for high volume requirement
Recruiting for Niche roles. Expert in recruiting GPDE roles (Backend, Frontend, Fullstack, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Product and Design roles)
Sourcing and Hiring Leadership Engineers across several engineering pipelines at different product companies (mostly Tier 1 and Tier 2) and exceeded targets consistently
Coordinating and handling interview walk-ins at client place
Working on job types like Direct Hire full Time
Extensively using social media channels and chrome extensions for ﬁnding talents across LinkedIn, GitHub, X-ray, Stack overﬂow.
Good knowledge in Boolean Search, X-Ray Search.
Few companies that I worked for during my stint at Anzy are Flipkart, Walmart, Inmobi, Amazon, Uber, Zeta Global, Coverfox, Acko, Freecharge, Myntra, Swiggy, Blackbuck, Treebo, RummyCircle.com

RecruitingSourcingTechnical RecruitingData AnalysisTalent Acquisition

Recruitment Specialist

Dec 2016 – Oct 2017 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

>>Currently working with Product companies in India, involved majorly in Tech Hiring for Various roles like,
Backend roles(SDE 1, SDE 2/SSE, SDE 3, Tech Lead, Principal Engineers, Architect, etc)
Data scientist (Machine Learning, NLP)
Testing roles (QA/SDET)
Product Managers
UI/Web/Front end developers
UX/UI Designer
Managerial roles
Companies that I am working for are, Flipkart, Walmart, Inmobi, Amazon, Uber, Zeta Global, Coverfox, Acko, Freecharge, Myntra, Swiggy, Blackbuck, Treebo, RummyCircle.com

RecruitingSourcingTechnical Recruiting