Madhur Zadgaonkar

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in engineering and product design hiring.
Successfully built tech teams across multiple levels.
Proficient in advanced sourcing techniques.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Talent Acquisition Specialist with a focus on engineering and product design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTech HiringRecruitingCandidate ExperienceProduct Design Hiring

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsBusiness DevelopmentCandidate OutreachCommunicationCreative WritingDesign SourcingE-RecruitmentLever Recruiting SoftwareML hiringNotionPresentationProficient in EnglishRecruiting Pipeline AnalyticsSourcingTalent Management

About

Building Teams at Abnormal AI At Abnormal AI, our mission is simple: make the internet safer for everyone. We use advanced AI to stop email and social engineering attacks that traditional security tools often miss—by understanding how people really communicate and building trust into every layer of protection. We’re expanding across the world and constantly pushing the limits of what’s possible at the intersection of AI and security. We’re looking for Software Engineers (Backend / Full Stack) and Engineering Managers who are passionate about AI and excited to apply it to real-world challenges that make a meaningful impact at a global scale. What I am in my work life - A results-driven and ever-curious talent partner who loves solving complex hiring challenges. I thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy working with high-performance teams, and always excited to brainstorm new ways to attract top-tier talent. Specialities - • Engineering & Product Design Hiring • Candidate Experience • Talent Attraction & Leadership Hiring (eng & product, analytics and product design) • Proficient in creative & social media sourcing techniques & tools like X-Ray Search, Boolean Search, LinkedIn, GitHub, StackOverflow. love watching & playing cricket. Animal lover. Reach out : madhurz@abnormal.ai

Experience

Abnormal ai

Senior Recruiter, APAC

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Wayground (formerly quizizz)

4 roles

Lead Recruiter - EPDA

Jul 2025 – Sep 2025 · 2 mos

Senior Recruiter

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Led hiring efforts for critical engineering, product design and leadership roles across different business functions. Learning how to hire for some GTM leadership roles.

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Jul 2023 · 11 mos

building tech teams 🚀
Tech hiring: Hired ~50 Software Engineers across experience levels (L3 to L6:Entry to Leadership) for Quizizz between 2021 to 2025
Led hiring efforts for SDE - Backend & SDE - Frontend roles across different product pods.
ML hiring: built a small founding ML/AI team for the org.
Owned the hiring efforts for Engineering Manager role for a 0-1 product charter.
Partner closely with Engineering leaders to understand their team health and hiring needs.
Other product roles:
Owned the complete hiring process for UX researchers.
Laterally worked on Business and Product Analyst roles.

Design SourcingTechnical RecruitingTech hiring

TA Recruiter & Coordinator

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 11 mos

One of early hires in the talent acquisition team, when we were a team of 60, I have been an integral part of the people and culture function - contributing to scale up the tech team.
Roles & Responsibilities -
Scheduling high volume interviews, engagement and debrief calls for candidates.
Managing the overall candidate experience and handling the on-boarding process for new hires.
Partnering with the HR team to generate & send offer letters for new joiners.
TA representative for all the post engagement activities.
Product Design Hiring - built and expanded the design function from a small 3 member team to 18 including gameplay, visual and motion design experience.
Product / Data Analyst Hiring - was involved in hiring 5 analytics members for the data team over the course of 2.5 months.
Non tech hiring - Briefly worked on roles like territory account manager, SDR and customer
success manager to scale up the US team.
Carried the full life-cycle recruitment process for above mentioned roles, right from building the pipeline, scheduling, coordinating, debriefs to offer negotiation process.
ATS - POC and TA representative for most of the TA related tools and platforms used across the
organisation.

Workable Recruiting SoftwareDesign SourcingTalent ManagementRecruitingTechnical RecruitingCandidate Experience

Unschool

Business Development Executive

Mar 2021 – Sep 2021 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Roles & Responsibilities -
Handled the coach acquisition and on-boarding process to help Unschool partner up with coaches for new E-learning courses on their platform.
Generated SQLs, MQLs from LinkedIn and other job portals and overlooked the recruiting and sourcing process.
Handled the ATS platform for internship opportunities and shortlisting candidates.
Helped Unschool to partner up with companies for internship opportunities for the enrolled learners.