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Puneeth N.

Co-Founder

India12 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building high-performing tech teams.
  • Proven track record in talent acquisition for AI and Data Science.
  • Successfully led recruitment for multiple startups and enterprises.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert specializing in technology and data science recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingTeam ManagementAi LabsLeadership HiringData ScienceExecutive Research

Other Skills

AnalyticsBenefits NegotiationBusiness DevelopmentCRMCold CallingConsultingContract RecruitmentCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Digital TransformationExecutive SearchInternet RecruitingInterviewingInterviewsJob AnalysisJob Description Development

About

Hands-on Talent Acquisition, technology enthusiast, strategist, people manager years of experience in customer and business focused talent acquisition having extensive multi- industry experience hiring experts in Technology, Data Science, and Product Management. Who puts special emphasis on hiring top talent for the organization and believes in cultivating strong relationships and partnering with internal and external stakeholders to attract and retain talent.

Experience

Nike

India - Tech Recruiting Lead

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Currently hiring for -
  • Senior principal engineer's and Principal engineers with microservices, data platform, cloud native
  • applications and distributed systems experience.
  • Director Engineering with Fullstack experience
  • Director of product management
  • Senior Engineering manager with Fullstack experience
  • Technical program managers
  • Lead product mangers and senior product managers.
Talent AcquisitionSourcingTechnical RecruitingInterviewsVendor Management

Recro

Director TA - Tech, Data Science and Product Hiring

Oct 2024Feb 2025 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Break

Family Care

Jan 2024Sep 2024 · 8 mos

Bloomreach

2 roles

India - Manager (Engineering, Data Science, Product and Support)

Oct 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

  • Lead a team and manage full lifecycle recruiting to effectively for Engineering, Data Science, Product and Support Engineering roles.
  • Key Accomplishments -
  • Got the company IPO ready.
  • Hired 50+ engineers with backend, frontend, fullstack, SRE's, Devops, Automation Engineers. Experience ranging from an intern, engineers, senior engineers, leads, staff, manager, senior managers and Directors.
  • Built a 10+ member data science and machine learning team.
  • Built a 15+ member support engineering team with techno-functional skills.
  • Invited external engineering leaders and hosted leadership talk sessions in-house.
  • Ensured high offer conversions and an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
  • Partnered closely with Bloomreach’s global leadership team, hiring managers and other internal stakeholders in our hiring target, with a particular emphasis on quality and speed of hiring.
  • Managed our university programs including new graduate and intern hiring, as and when there is a business need.
Talent AcquisitionTeam ManagementRecruitingData ScienceProduct Management

Recruitment Lead

Feb 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

American express

TA Lead – AI labs (ML&DL) and Tech Leadership (Staff Eng and Eng Directors)

Jan 2017Jan 2021 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Hands-on recruiter/manager responsible for building the AI labs from 2 member team to a 35 member team and key role in building IDC technology leadership (Digital Transformation from Monolithic to Micro services environment) for PAN India.
  •  Lead a 2 member team to delivery engineering hiring needs.
  •  Determine current staffing needs and future forecasts.
  •  Actively participated in employment branding, Employee referrals, Campus and Diversity hiring initiatives.
  • Roles Hired:
  •  Research Scientist/Senior RS/Principal RS/Director roles experience ranging from 1-20+ yrs. for AI Labs with expertise in NLP, ML/DL with data structures and algorithm background.
  •  Engineers/Senior Engineers experience ranging from 1-8 yrs. for Frontend, Backend and Full stack, big data, Quality Engineers and cloud roles.
  •  Staff Engineers/Director Engineering leadership roles experience ranging from 8-20+ yrs.
Talent AcquisitionAI LabsMachine LearningDigital Transformation

Rinalytics advisors

Leadership Hiring (Data Science, Engineering & Product Management)

Jul 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangaon Area, India · On-site

  • Built 0-1 teams for start-ups, Mid-size and Enterprise companies.
  • Hired for Technology, Data Science and Product management leadership roles.
  • Companies - Taxiforsure, Madstreet Den, Fidelity, American Express labs , Myntra, Embibe, Flipkart, Amazon labs, Epsilon, Swiggy, Adobe labs, IBM labs and many more.
Leadership HiringData ScienceProduct Management

Hire-analytics

Co-Founder

Jul 2014Jun 2015 · 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Hire-Analytics, head quartered in Bangalore,Talent Search Company, providing Executive Research, Junior and Middle Management Search solutions for a wide range of industries and functions with core focus in Analytics, We specialize in sourcing, assessing and placing exceptional talent that fits our client's culture and business strategy.
  • We act as a gateway to provide various talent management services to our customers. We are a team of dedicated professionals always committed to serve our customers with high quality maintained throughout the project life cycle.
  • For more information:
  • Please reach out to us: info@hire-analytics.in
Executive ResearchTalent Management

Wns global services

Talent Acquisition - Research & Analytics

Jun 2012Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Hired for Research and Analytics and other BAU.
  • Specialist role under Retail and CPG, Insurance, Advanced Analytics for Coca-cola, Starbucks, P&G, Sunlife and Aviva insurance.
  • Roles Hired - Marketing Sciences, data mining, economics, forecasting, marketing mix, quantitative marketing, SAS, Statistics, market research analysis, modeling, regression analysis, category management, CRM, web analytics, campaign management-Unica, Quality.
Talent AcquisitionResearch and Analytics

Education

Bangalore University

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