Apr 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• I lead Recruiting Vision , strategy , execution for Asia Pacific & Japan region (Tech , R&D). I work with a bunch of bright talent acquisition experts who are on the mission of getting best of the talent to ServiceNow.
• Operating in a matrix, cross functional organisation. Delivering ~1000 to 1200 hires per year, managing managers. Part of India Leadership council.
• Taken the responsibility of Talent acquisition team in version one stage, built,scaled the team size to 40 member team, built strong leadership bench.
• Built and scaled the centre of excellence model of University recruiting, Talent sourcing, Recruiting coordination and operations.
• INTERIM/ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITY - 2021
• Director Recruitment - EMEA , Tech and Corp functions

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Apr 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

• After many years of trying to help as much I can - I, my wife & along few friends decided to scale it. What's more impactful than enabling "one person" to dream? This initiative covers two crucial aspects
• 1) Adopting One/Two government schools in remote places of Telangana every year to educate, inspire students
• 2) Provide information, material and required coaching to face the competitive world
• The real inheritance/legacy I want to leave for my kids is this initiative.Trying to find meaning.
• All this meant at making it worth -thanks to values my teachers instilled in me.

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos

• Led Machine Learning Recruitment for India.
• This assignment was about increasing the depth and breath of TA to scale Talent Acquisition solutions to attract best Machine Learning Talent.
• International consumer, Devices (Kindle, Alexa), Amazon Prime Video are some of the businesses I supported.
• My team hired Machine learning scientists, researchers and Data Scientists with NLP, Computer vision, Speech & Image recognition
• Built and scaled talent research competency, conceptualised a talent mapping initiative called "Gravity" which enabled us to figure out total addressable market and engage talent.
• Increased hiring 2X over previous year and reduced offer declines by 50%
• Partnered with broader HR and Business to scale cross learning and nurturing internal talent to move them into machine learning roles.

Jul 2014 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• I held a charter of Talent Acquisition Strategy and execution for key technology organizations within Amazon across Hyderabad,Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi.Leading the effort for incubation of few new product development teams that will disrupt the way we buy and sell online.
• My team was responsible to hire for all roles covering the entire life cycle of product development life cycle i.e SDE I to SDE IIIs, SDMs, TPMs, Production support
• Led Leadership hiring/Executive Hiring in the past - Including directors , senior Dev leaders.
• Led large initiative of hiring senior talent covering India (Hyderabad/Bangalore/Chennai/Delhi.) and Australia.
• "Ship with Amazon" (Amazon Logistics), E-commerce Platform, Customer Support Tech, Last mile, International consumer are some of the businesses I supported.

Sep 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · India

• Partygaming/IVY Comptech - World's largest listed online gaming company
• Heading recruitment for Product Developemnt and Customer Service teams
• Strategic:
• Responsible for end to end recruitment delivery for India software development center. Talent acquisition strategy and execution. Starting from defining policies and processes to setting up the priorities for recruitment team.
• Team management,Providing direction, mentoring,capability building with budgetary responsibility and internal,external stakeholder management.Lead of Team of 10 people from executive to Assistant manager level.
• Advising Senior Leadership on Talent Acquisition Strategy, Keeping and an eye and analyzing Talent Landscape, Improving employer Brand and overall value proposition of the organization with respective to Talent attraction.
• Lead Projects which are going to impact company's macro level "talent dynamics" like Market Intelligence, Assessments, Psychometric Tests, Internal Mobility, Passive candidate pool
• Operational:
• Handling complex positions/Roles which are either niche or at Leadership level or positions open with a highly demanding internal stakeholder.

Sep 2008 – Sep 2011 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• Lead Recruitment for few key Technology groups, reported in to the Vice President - Talent Acquisition. Responsible for Talent Acquisition strategy,execution for Internet Services,Online Banking,Wholesale & Retail Banking Technology Teams. Worked directly with the Managing Director and Vice President HR and supported recruitment activity to set up backend teams in Financial Analysis, Commercial Mortgage, Hired first set of leaders for these teams.
• Hired across various niche technologies like Data warehousing, EAI, seasoned technologists like Architects,Managers in various Object Oriented Programming Languages.

Dec 2007 – Sep 2008 · 9 mos · Hyderabad

• Reported in to Senior Staffing Consultant, was supporting recruiting activity for well regarded product teams like Visual Studio, Unified Communications. Was responsible for Talent mapping across various software product development companies India.Hired Senior ICs to Managers across various job families like SDEs,Program Managers,Product Managers.
• Partnered with my manager in setting up Unified Communications team from grounds up. We Emerged as a team with most ideal source mix by successfully hiring senior candidates through direct sourcing.

Aug 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Reported in to the Location HR head, responsible for Complete Life Cycle of Recruitment.Lead recruitment for Hyderabad and Chennai offices. Was Primary responsible for building teams from grounds up in to Security Socket Layer VPN,AntiVirus - AntiSpam, Intrusion Protection and Detection Systems.
• Independently supported the activity of forming a new Product Development Team in to Centralized Management Systems for Redback Networks.Intoto in a way a strong startup in to Datacom domain. We have experimented a number of unconventional recruiting strategies here which paid off eventually.