Jeffry Issac

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built recruitment teams from ground up at Databricks.
Achieved highest offer acceptances at Google APAC.
Scaled recruitment functions rapidly across multiple verticals.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the SaaS industry with a focus on technical and leadership hiring.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitingTalent Management

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsCompensation & BenefitsCompetency MappingDiversity HiringEmployee EngagementHR AnalyticsLeadership HiringLearning & DevelopmentManagementNon Tech HiringPre Sales HiringSales HiringSales RecruitmentSourcingStakeholder Management

About

Build! Scale! Repeat! Currently heading Tech + G&A Recruiting for Databricks APJ ! With 11+ years of overall industry experience, being part of the Talent Acquisition division enabled me to contribute to Google India's massive growth story and help scale (across ~25 teams) the same as one of the initial hires for the team. Now, I'm helping Databricks in its hypergrowth phase by recruiting for the Tech & Non-Tech (GTM + G&A) space as one of their initial TA hires across APJ - and setting up verticals (0-1) across various business units & functions from scratch in India.

Experience

Databricks

3 roles

Head of Talent Acquisition (Tech + G&A) , APAC

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Leading the India recruiting team (Lateral & University Recruiting)
Heading recruitment for the following verticals across APAC (Early Career + Senior + Leadership hiring):
Software Engineering
Security Engineering
Technical Solutions Engineering / Support
IT
Professional Services (AI & ML / Data Architects / Data Eng)
G&A (HR / Finance / Marketing etc)
More about Databricks : https://www.databricks.com/

RecruitingTechnical RecruitingLeadership HiringTalent ManagementSourcing

Senior Staff Recruiter : Tech (R&D) & Non-Tech (GTM) , India

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 · 11 mos

Leading a team of 5.
Heading recruitment for 5 major verticals in APJ :
Tech : Software Engineering (Campus & Industry hiring)
GTM (Field Engineering : Presales, Specialists , Delivery)
Professional Services
Security Engineering
Technical Solutions
Built some these verticals from ground up (0-1) in India.
Responsible for setting up and scaling the entire Tech & Non-Tech (Go-To-Market) function in APJ from scratch across all experience levels (Campus , Senior & Leadership) by working closely with SVPs , VPs , Directors , which includes :
► Tech : Software Engineering (Campus - Internship & New Grads, SDE 2 , Senior SWE , Staff SWE , Sr Staff SWE, Engineering Managers , Tech Program Managers)
Built the team from 0 to 50 in under 7 months !
► GTM : Field Engineering (Pre Sales : Solution Consultants , Solution Architects , Delivery Architects, Specialists , Senior Managers, Director)
Expanded the team to +200% in less than 12 months.
► Professional Services (Big Data Engineers , Big Data Architects , Big Data Managers, Engagement Managers, Partner Managers , Resource Managers)
Expanded the team to +140% in less than 12 months.
► Security Engineering (Incident Response / Incident Handler) - Senior & Staff Security Engineers & Program Managers
► Technical Solutions / Support (Managers , Sr Managers)

RecruitingTechnical RecruitingSales HiringTalent ManagementSourcing

Senior Staff Recruiter : Non-Tech (GTM) , India

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr

Amongst the first to be hired for the India TA (Talent Acquisition) team at Databricks India !
Heading recruitment for 3 major verticals in APJ :
GTM (Sales & Field Engineering - Presales, Specialists , Delivery)
Professional Services
Security Engineering
Built these verticals from ground up (0-1) in India.
Everything and anything Data & AI? Databricks is the place !

RecruitingTechnical RecruitingSales HiringTalent ManagementSourcing

Google

3 roles

Sourcing Manager : Leadership Hiring

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Apr 2022 · 9 mos

► Highest Google APAC Offer Accepts / Closures for 2 years consecutively : FY 21 & FY 22
► Hired ~200 Software Engineers across experience levels (L3 to L7 : Entry to Leadership) for Google India between 2019 to 2022
► A Sourcing Manager , yet still a Hands on Senior Recruitment Specialist for Leadership Engineering Hiring at Google India , where the following are some of my responsibilities :
Managing a team of sourcers (12) for Leadership Hiring (Senior Staff / Staff / Senior Tech : Engineering) for 20+ product areas across BLR & HYD
Providing strategic direction for robust sourcing , pipelining and market mapping for the same spanning multiple niche domains
Stakeholder management with Engineering VPs , Directors and Engineering Managers from a strategic hiring, forecasting & fulfilment perspective
POC (Point of Contact) for ALL of Cloud - Leadership / Senior Staff / Staff / Senior Engineering Hiring in India
Official mentor to 70+ Noogler staffers since 2020
Hiring Committee facilitator for all Tech roles & levels globally
► Set up Google India's Tech Org across all levels and roles from scratch :
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) : Big Data, Security , FDO , Looker , Storage , Networking , Virtualisation, Infra , Engineering Productivity
Devices & Services (D&S) : Google One , Google Store , Embedded Systems, Google Nest
Platforms & Ecosystems Org (P&E): Android Mobile, Android TV, Google Health, Chrome OS
Google Ads : YouTube Ads , Shopping Ads, Discovery Ads
Google Pay , Google Search , Google Apps , Google Maps
► Hiring Committee Host for APAC Tech Hiring
► Developed 2 MBA - HR Case Studies wrt Talent Acquisition for Google India for all business schools pan India , resulting in a participation of ~5000 teams

RecruitingLeadership HiringTalent ManagementSourcing

Senior Recruitment Specialist : Tech , Leadership Hiring

Apr 2021 – Jul 2021 · 3 mos

► Responsible for ALL Leadership / Senior Tech Hiring (Senior SWE , Staff SWE , Senior Staff SWE etc) as an Individual Contributor for the entire site across BLR + HYD , for 20+ new high impact teams from ground up across :
Cloud
Platforms & Ecosystems
Devices & Services (Google Nest , Google Store , Google One)
Embedded Systems
Engineering Productivity
Google Health
Chrome OS
Networking
Storage
Security
Android & iOS
► Hiring Committee Host for APAC Tech Hiring
Also simultaneously hiring for Ads , Payments , Search , Maps and many more high impact product areas !

RecruitingTechnical RecruitingLeadership HiringTalent Management

Technical Recruiter - Software Engineering (SWE) | People Operations

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Apr 2019 to Nov 2020 : Was amongst the first few to be hired in the TA team at Google India !
To periodically conduct a market and talent analysis, and consequently source and hire Software Engineers (SWE) across various experience levels for the Devices & Services (D&S) product area of Google, which are being set up for the first ever time in India from scratch, and include the following roles :
1. Google One
2. Google Nest
3. Google Store/G Store (E-commerce)
4. Embedded Systems
Have also hired and set up teams across Cloud , Ads , Pay , Maps, Search and many more !
Dec 2020 to Apr 2021 :
Responsible for Leadership / Senior Tech Hiring (Senior SWE , Staff SWE , Senior Staff SWE etc) for the entire site across BLR + HYD

RecruitingTechnical RecruitingLeadership HiringTalent Management

Itc limited

Summer Intern

Apr 2018 – Jun 2018 · 2 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

To reduce attrition in Specialist Cadre via specific interventions to ITD’s (ITC's Tobacco Division) Talent Management Practices :
● Conceptualized a Dual Career Path trajectory for Specialists, after qualitative interviews & exit interview analysis
● Designed a Live Predictive Attrition Model via demographic & behavioral psychometric analysis
● Identified industry best practices via external benchmarking and analysis to address gaps identified in existing practices
● Recommended implementation of Maturity Curves to the existing remuneration/compensation structure of Technical Specialists
● Designed a Capability Improvement Matrix for the blue - collared workers, to understand their existing levels of performance

RecruitingTechnical Recruiting

Jsw steel

Junior Manager

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs · India

Junior Manager at JSW Steel Limited, Toranagallu Factory, Bellary, Karnataka
● Plant Maintenance-Shift In-Charge in the Caster Section(4) of Steel Melt Shop (SMS) department
● Led a team of 20 members every shift as on the shop floor
● Undertook Manpower Planning and Scheduling of blue collared employees at the shop floor
● Trained and Developed sub-ordinates to ensure they take up new and challenging tasks