Jun 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• EagleView is a leading technology provider of Aerial Imagery, Data Analytics and Geographic Information System solutions headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. We combine imagery that reveals the finest and most important details with computer vision to help you gain insights into any location—from anywhere.
• I was the initial founding member and first to set up the Talent Acquisition function. Built a team of ~22 high performing recruiters (Full time and RPO)
• Built the Engineering, Operations and G&A function from 10 to 800 within a year.
• Designed and implemented processes, ATS, employer branding and recruiting campaigns.
• Negotiate, onboard and manage a gamut of tools like LinkedIn, Naukri, etc
• Created and presented Weekly, monthly and Quarterly dashboards to C-suite executives and Board of Directors.
• Helped other Vista Partners companies to implement best practices.

Apr 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Unleashing the power of Artificial Intelligence & talent discovery to #buildexperiences for candidates and brands."
• Uncap as a thought got seeded with one mission of #buildingexperiences. At Uncap, a common string which ties the core team is Technology and People.
• The team is heavily invested in creating a culture which relies on
• Being a Believer
• Making Own Story
• Having High Level of Trust
• Integrity
• We take them to be the core fundamentals of the company's mission which is the build and create wow experiences for the customer who interact with Uncappers.
• We founded Uncap Research Labs with a strong research focus to solve for our most passionate and experiential subject "Recruiting".
• What are we trying to Solve ?
• We feel astonished on how the world have evolved with ease of access of information. It brings an adrenaline rush on how data is being used to derive patterns and hence build great usable product.
• It also gives equal rush on the immense opportunity we see in the way Talent is engaged today and how Talent Acquisition as a function have not evolved being a Billion Dollar Market.
• We teamed up with a vision on leveraging community driven brand based interventions by unleashing the power of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning.

May 2013 – Apr 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, Seattle · On-site

• One of the most tenured HR team member at Expedia. Managing following five hats:
• > Talent AcquisitionLeader for Brand Expedia, Hotwire and Hotels.com
• > Conceptualized, created and leading ExpeRTS team (Expedia Rare Talent Search Team)- Senior
• Technology and Executive Hiring across Expedia, India. Personally leading the leadership
• hiring.
• > Founded the RecLab Unit (Technology Initiative in Recruiting) - Designing and creating technology
• products in recruiting space through the power of technology.
• > Leading HR Reporting and Data Analytics for Expedia, APAC
• > Designer and Architect of Business processes for Workday implementation (ATS) - APAC lead.
• > Hired and Led a team of enthusiastic recruiters. Created scale by bringing the concept of Agile and CoEs in recruiting space. Managing recruiting activity as a Program.
• > Developing talent strategies while giving emphasis on wonderful candidate experience.
• > Part of the global team in creating and implementing Internal Open Talent Market reducing the
• attrition by 38% and filling 29% jobs internally.
• > Started as an IC and have been instrumental in ramping up teams from 100 (in 2013) to >1200 (in
• Dec). Hired roles like Developers, SDET, Engineering Manager, TPM, DevOps and Infrastructure roles.
• Identifying and developing talent pool across industry. Created a program called Exponential -
• Branding initiative to position Expedia and attract talent.
• > Partnered closely and Influencing stakeholders and other functions to bring scale and transparency.
• > Acted as an official mentor for Technology recruiters within Expedia and to extended recruiting
• community outside of Expedia.
• > Well-versed with the scope and dimension of Technology, E-Commerce & Product Hiring.

May 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs · Pune & Chicago

•  Leading, motivating and mentoring a team of 5 recruiters.
•  Handling various internal customers and stake holders.
•  Defining and Designing the Recruitment Process Design (Process Capability Matrix)
•  SPOC for various Business Units. Eg; Business Intelligence/DWH, Mobile,
• Online Business and IT Infrastructure and ERP.
•  Hiring more than 400 lateral and contract associates within 4 months from PAN India.
•  SPOC for the hiring at US office (SGT).
•  Working on MIS and HR Analytics. Benchmarking the recruitment processes.
•  Negotiating with candidates for salary. Building joining pipeline and backup.
•  Interacting with Recruitment consultancies and vendors for the Hiring needs.
•  Maintaining the Data in various presentable forms.
•  Designing the Recruitment Module on HRMS and other scientific HR and Recruitment related initiatives. Designing the recruitment processes.
•  Drafting policies and recruitment process manual. Designing forms and offer letters.

Oct 2009 – May 2010 · 7 mos · Pune Area, India

•  Led a team of 4 recruiters at Bangalore and Pune location of the Client (MindTree & Avaya).
•  Leading India to India (I2I) BU requirements of MindTree Ltd.
•  Looking after the hiring for IMTS (Infrastructure management and technical support). Eg; DBA, SA, Linux Admin, Windows Admin, My SQL, MS SQL, Maintenance, etc, Tech support 24X7.
•  Working towards a completely automated recruitment process.
•  Hiring for and interacting with clients like Yahoo!, Microsoft, BMC, AOL, Symantec, VMWare, Amazon etc.
•  Working on skillsets like Java, C++, Informatica, Unix, Windows, Development, Tetsing, Sys Admin, etc.
•  Getting requirements from internal customers and stake holders.
•  Sticking to the standards and SLAs for hiring in the minimum possible time frame.
•  Handling complete Recruitment Cycle (End to End recruitment).
•  Making recruitment plans for all the Accounts and taking the accountability from TA perspective
•  Salary Negotiation with the candidates and resolving their queries.
•  Extensive hiring for various BUs of Avaya like CoE division, R&D division, Tech Support, Finance, Shared services, etc.
•  Extensive hiring for Infrastructure team and technical support domain.
•  Expert in Infrastructure management and telecommunication domain.
•  Sourcing Resumes from Job portals.
• Ramping up the IT and Non-IT business units across the organization.

Mar 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• I'm currently working on Centre of Excellence (CoE) recruitments at Avaya India Pvt. Ltd. and on all the requirements of the R&D division. Global finance and Global learning and Information Solutions team. I've been recruiting for various IT and support skills.
• My basic Roles and Responsibilities includes :-
• 1.Sourcing Resumes from Job portals.
• 2.Handling complete Recruitment Cycle.
• 3.Interacting with the candidates for the offers, salary and profile.
• 4.Interacting with Consultants and business unit for delivery.
• 5.Managing, Initiating and handling Employee referral programme.
• 6.Scheduling Interviews and coordinating for Lateral recruitments.
• 7.Handling all the documents and maintaining the database.
• 8.Campus recruitments- Handling all the logistics and On campus activity.
• 9.Organizing and coordinating weekend recruitment program.

Apr 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

• K. K. Power control wires Pvt. Ltd., is a Pune based company which manufautres power cables for various industries. It is a preferred vendor of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal corporation. It has 3 manufacturing units in and around Pune which manufactures high strength and super quality wires and cables. It has got second largest market share in this industry in Pune. Now the company is expanding and it has spread its branches in many areas in Maharashtra.
• My basic roles abd responsibilities were : -
• 1.Handling a team of 3 recruiter.
• 2.Looking after the complete recruitment and HR- operations activity.
• 3.Ramping up the complete sales force and marketing division.
• 4.Maintaining database and documents.
• 5.Successfully completely the work force requirements for the new branches and subsidiary of the company.
• 6. Handling complete recruitment cycle
• 7.Visiting prospects for sales.
• 8.Scheduling and coordinating annual meeting.
• 9.Interacting with various government official for getting tenders.
• 10.Motivating my team.
• 11.Expanding company reach in Pune region.
• 12.Scheduling client meeting and coordinating.
• 13.Recruiting sales force for my team.
• 14.Helping management in establishing its new branches