Jan 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Building a team that's revolutionizing India’s digital payments experience through deep partnerships with the banking and financial services industry.
• ● Handpicking Talent across Tech, Product and Design across roles & levels – Backend, Fullstack, Frontend, SDET, App Sec, Design and PSE.
• ● Part of International Technology Hiring (for our PhonePe US office)
• ● Strategic Planning and execution of building the Firmware team from scratch (Pune/Bengaluru) in FY2023
• ● Leadership Hiring (EM, Architects, Head of Engineering, Business Heads) for Tech, Design and Product. Have successfully closed Leadership positions in Tech and Design
• ● Worked for multiple business units simultaneously (overall I was managing hiring of 11 different Engineering teams)
• ● Strategically closed positions across all levels within the organization in 2022
• o Scaled the Backend, SDET, PSE and Security team
• o Built the Creative Design Team at PhonePe and scaled the UI Design team
• ● Stakeholder Management across business units within the organization, managing reporting and efficiency matrices and TA Analytics. Understand demand and create weekly and monthly drive plans and deliver accordingly.
• ● Diversity & Inclusion
• o Designed and developed a comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategy resulting in a more integrated approach in hiring diversity candidates.
• ● Employer Branding – Part of various projects on Glassdoor and LinkedIn contributing to better branding for TA.
• ● Successfully created and implemented various policies and program for TA
• o Employee Referral program for Tech and Design
• o Candidate Experience Program
• o Interviewer Calibration Program for Backend across different BU’s

May 2020 – Jan 2021 · 8 mos

• ·Partnered with the Hiring Managers for end-to-end hiring across
• all verticals - Technology, Product, Analytics, Marketing, Operations, KYC
• & Risk and Customer Experience
• ·Design recruitment and sourcing strategies and implemented cost
• effective channels such as exclusive employee referral programs, social media hiring, IJP, professional networking, digital interviews etc.
• ·Lead the Operations hiring PAN India and successfully onboarded 200+ employees for FY 2019.
• ·Scaled the Analytics Hiring from 8 to 52 employees for FY 2019
• with a strong focus on diversity in the team, with 6 new female hires.
• ·Successfully closed 8 leadership positions for Tech and Product for 3rd Qtr of 2020.
• ·Handled University Relations for FY 2020 and onboarded 4 interns for Technology in a month.
• ·Ensured effective Candidate Connect throughout the hiring
• process and achieved 96% offer to joinee ratio throughout 2019-2020.
• ·Brought down recruitment cost to 20% from 65% and maintained 95% TAT.
• ·Generation of weekly/monthly Hiring dashboard for the management team across all functions
• ·Guiding Hiring Managers in designing and writing job adverts
• along with providing interview coaching and training to line managers and setting up interview panel for a better candidate experience.
• ·Conducting regular salary benchmarking exercise across functions
• to make correct budgeting decision for all roles within the organization.

Jan 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Design and implement overall recruitment strategy PAN India.
• Responsible for coordinating with functional heads for collating manpower planning and requirements PAN India.
• Responsible for full life cycle recruiting and hiring for Operations, Technology, Analytics and Customer Experience Team.
• Sourced candidates via job fairs, social media, e-mail campaigns, etc.
• Conducted campus placements, head hunting, recruitment drives and walk-in interviews.
• Managed vendor contracts and relationships relating to the recruitment process.
• Negotiated vendor contracts and achieved cost savings.
• Contribute in the employer branding efforts.
• Partner with line executives and management to proactively address business issues related to workforce development, employee engagement and productivity.
• Collaborate across the organization in the design and development of top initiatives
• Contribute in salary bench marking exercise.

Apr 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Support Capgemini UK Executive Recruitment team by working closely with Recruitment Managers in UK for key business areas – Infra, Apps, BPO, Group and Core Services.
• Managing the recruiting cycle from the time the requisition is received until the candidate is on-boarded. Make process recommendations to achieve operational excellence and ensure 100% closure of HR SLAs.
• Interacting with Hiring Managers to develop innovative tools to develop strong selection processes.
• Interview Management for all roles (UK/ Global) – arranging different types of interviews: Face-to Face, Telephone/ Conference, Skype, Panels, VC/ Webcam, etc.
• Interview Administration - logistics management, communication with internal and external stakeholders (vendors/ candidates), seeking interviewer’s availability by checking their diary and liaising with their PA’s, sending interview invites to candidates and interviewers.
• Manage Application Tracking System - Creating job requisition and adverts, posting the job roles internally and externally, uploading candidate information and updating other information accurately. Also generate reports from time to time.
• Vendor Management – Raising Purchase Orders for suppliers for hire of new candidates, Search Fee and Retainer Fee. Creating new Vendor Contracts (Contingency, One-Off and Search), renew contracts and also termination of contracts. Conducts research and analyses data on assigned projects including agency performance. May provide performance feedback on all recruiting agencies to assure third-party vendors perform according to established service level agreements.
• Offer Administration which involves creating offer forms and co-ordination with the Offer Management Team.
• Act as subject matter expert to review, design, and document HR processes in the SOP.

Mar 2015 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Handling Recruitment for UK Capgemini in the space of Executive Recruitment. Working closely with three Recruitment Managers in UK with interview arrangements for key business areas – Infra, Apps, BPO, and Core Services. The role involves significant activity in arranging face to face interviews, Video Conference interviews and VP Panels. There is a high volume of telephone work, managing logistics, and also communications via e-mail, creating and sending out meeting invitations. The role also demands to work on vendor management (invoice and supplier management), creating reports and working on service review calls. The role involves scheduling/arranging interviews and Panels for higher grades only (Directors/VP’s,) with a very strong client facing skills. Also involves very strong MS Office skills, in particular Excel and Outlook.