Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

• As an HBR Advisory Council member, I contribute insights to shape HBR content and better understand user perspectives on management and leadership.

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024 · 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kirkland, Washington, United States

Jan 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• I manage a large distributed team of recruiting managers, client lead recruiters, and sourcers based out of Seattle, New York, Boston, Cupertino, Arlington, and Austin. Along with owning the hiring for one of the biggest businesses in Platform, I lead Software Development and Data Science hiring for the AWS Platform businesses across all sites in North America. I have also Successfully revitalized and launched an all-encompassing Alumni rehiring program across Amazon, fueled by data driven insights from past re-hiring and retention practices. Utilized Asana to streamline and automate key processes, ensuring program efficiency and scalability resulting in hundreds of Boomerang rehires.

Oct 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Sep 2013 – Sep 2017 · 4 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

• Hiring best-in-class, top talent for Amazon Alexa.
• If you are interested or know someone who you'd recommend, please contact me at appy@amazon.com.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bellevue, Washington, United States

May 2008 – May 2011 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• I joined as an HRBP and moved to Talent Acquisition. Key responsibilities and achievements include:
• Manpower planning with the Business units: Discussions with business leaders to understand the technical and psychological qualities of the staff needed. Spearhead hiring efforts for the same.
• Plan Employee Referral Programs for Infrastructure and IT divisions, designing and drafting referral mailers, planning and implementing campaigns.
• Managed a team of 5 recruiters: hiring, onboarding, performance management.
• Resource on-boarding for Two In-sourcing Deals for TCS Bangalore and Hyderabad respectively.
• Reduced cost of hiring by leveraging internal referrals and maximizing the use of job portals and internal portal.
• Successful in completing the huge recruitment for infrastructure projects of TCS Microsoft Business Unit.

Apr 2007 – Jun 2007 · 2 mos

• Designed a Competency Development Program for Godrej which was included in the Training Calendar.