Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · India · On-site

• As a founding team member and a leader, I am helping our global business leaders to get some of the best business minds and talent to join our mission!
• Opptra unlocks Asian expansion for consumer brands, with a focus on ecommerce and digital capabilities. We are building a portfolio of category-aligned franchising businesses and powering these ventures with a consolidated supply chain and centrally developed technology.
• Find more about us here: https://www.opptra.com/
• Terraspan by Opptra: https://www.terraspan.com/
• Exporio by Opptra: https://www.exporio.ai/

Nov 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Connectecho was a pre-product service-first recruitment company. Was hiring across levels in the Technology and Product domain. We built a strong credibility and a trusted partnership with some of the leading Venture Capitalist firms. This helped us build a strong Proof of Concept to partner with specialist recruiters and agencies which eventually was productised in our marketplace venture at Spottabl.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Portfolio Advisory and Support for People Practices, Talent Acquisition, Early stage Start-up Org Development.
• Worked closely with early stage portfolios to help them on some of the following areas:
• Connecting them with the right talent for business critical roles.
• Working closely with the Board and Cofounders of portfolios to advise them on right hiring channels and strategies.
• Helping them build the organization from the people development standpoint.
• Operational help , support and advisory on the hiring process and some of the people practices aspects like HR compliance , guidance around the basic HR processes and people practices.
• Constant upgrading of talent network in the ecosystem for current and potential scope of work.
• Are you currently a top talent in your start up or you want to join as a top talent since you have it in you? Please reach out to me.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

• Worked in multiple areas of Talent Acquisition and development.
• Business Advisory role on talent acquisition and Campus Calendar and Talent Planning.
• Senior Leadership and Business Strategy hiring.
• Researching and exploring new technology solutions and new ways of digitising in recruitment.
• implementing new ways of making recruitment more efficient and engaging experience for the talent.
• Talent Strategy and acquisition in various teams like Engineering, Product & Design.
• Handled Talent Acquisition for International Expansion.
• Engineering , Product and Sales Leadership Campus Hiring Strategy and Execution.
• Talent Development and talent integration pre-post acquisition.

Aug 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• India Lead for Engineering & Technology Hiring.
• Played roles like Business Advisory , Team Management and TA Planning.
• Offer Process and Onboarding Planning Projects along with the Global EFI TA team.
• Interview Process and TA Execution Level activities for across Engineering and QA teams.

May 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• As a Lead for Strategy and Corporate Functions TA team, handled various functions around Talent acquisition
• Online and Offline Marketing Leadership
• Finance Leadership
• Business Strategy Hiring
• Onboarding and Interview Process Planning.
• Involved directly with Senior Leaders around Talent as a Agenda.
• Managed the TA team that involved in hiring across levels for Corporate Functions and Strategy Hiring

Jul 2007 – Feb 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Majorly contributed to the engineering teams' hiring . Hired for various levels across the organisations. Contributed to various project and enigneering team ramp ups.

Dec 2005 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Contributed to hiring of research interns from Tier-1 engineering Institutes like BITS Pilani, IITs research associates, researchers from various international universities like Standford, Berkley CMU. Collaborating actively with senior , renowned researchers and scientists in the industry for references, recommentaions and feedbacks.

Aug 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr

• Client Engagement for their hiring needs.
• Worked with clients like IBM, JP Morgan and Dell for their Lateral BPO and IT Services hiring.
• End to end candidate engagement from Interview Scheduling to Offer acceptance.
• Onboarding follow up and talent mapping across industries .
• Networking across levels in the IT servicers and BPO industry to build Candidate Database and talent pool for the upcoming hiring needs.