Jan 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Lateral Hiring
• Hiring Engineering/Technical Leads, Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers & Vice Presidents across career streams supporting 18+ hiring managers
• Building cross-functional teams for several mid-to-senior level non-tech roles across Sales Engineering, Client & Partner Development group, Product Management & Human Capital (roles like Principal Solutions Architect, Treasury Solutions Architect, Product Lead, Sr Manager HRBP, VP- L&OD, Manager- TA)
• Cultivating a collaborative environment within the team, fostering knowledge sharing & best practices, resolving team conflicts & ensuring timely career progression of recruiters
• Campus Hiring, Branding & Engagement
• Spearheading tech campus hiring- from strategizing institutes to visit & compensation to offer to managing decisions related to gifts, accommodation, PPO results and ensuring process adherence
• Redefining traditional campus recruitment by driving proactive campus hiring initiatives and leveraging technology & social media to identify, attract & engage with talent across IITs, NITs, and other top engineering institutes
• Key Initiatives:
• Researched & benchmarked AI based sourcing platforms & Talent Intelligence tools (HireEZ, SeekOut, etc.); finalized a platform post discussions & internal trials & helped reduce vendor dependence & increase cost efficiency
• Facilitated discussions & follow-up calls with Greenhouse & Lever to understand features; drew comparisons to finalize a new ATS to replace existing SuccessFactors followed by user testing with the larger team across India & the US
• Orchestrated new ATS implementation: from customizing the ATS & conducting team user testing to ensuring seamless data migration, creating video tutorials, and preparing launch blog content
• Completed market research, facilitated discussions, user testing & price negotiations to replace the existing vendor in use for administering all campus & market hiring coding tests and live coding rounds

Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Lateral Hiring
• Complete ownership in hiring for mid-to-senior level technology roles for full stack, back-end, front-end, Data Engineering, AI/ML engineers (SDE II, SDE III, Engineering Leads, Engineering Managers & Principal Software Engineers), SRE & Core Infrastructure Principal Engineers & Engineering Managers and Test Engineering Managers & Leads
• Managing end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for over 12+ different roles across career streams by partnering with business to strategize hiring in a fast paced VUCA environment and working on process improvements and innovations
• Monitoring and continuously improving key recruitment metrics that have an impact on business, identifying trends and gaps to enable quick and easy decision making across different stakeholders
• Campus Hiring, Branding & Engagement
• Driving proactive Campus Hiring initiatives across IITs, NITs, and other top Engineering Institutes across the country
• Gathering campus intelligence, analyzing inputs on internship stipends and FT compensation structures of leading tech campus hiring firms and suggesting changes/modifications in fresher compensation to the leadership
• Anchoring campus recruitment drives, delivering pre-placement talks and effectively designing & implementing multiple level assessment process
• Engaging with engineering campuses beyond the campus hiring season through technical fests, initiating tech talks on campuses, etc.
• Key Initiatives:
• Conceptualised & Spearheaded Arcesium's gender diversity hiring initiative by partnering with HackerEarth and conducting She_Codes_2022 which saw over 2800 women coders participate across the country
• Worked on identifying 2 vendors and launched the external interviewer support model for getting Round 1s for entry level candidates conducted through external interviewers thus releasing bandwidth for internal interviewers and reducing interviewer burnout

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Proven ability to deliver results by balancing quality of hire & speed of hiring
• Collaborating by building meaningful partnerships with business and influencing stakeholders at all levels to drive hiring goals & program outcomes
• Delivering the best possible candidate experience for every candidate
• Lateral Hiring
• Designing & implementing hiring strategies with business, effective stakeholder management and working on continuous recruitment process improvements
• Deploying a mix of sourcing channels- from social media recruiting, Github, Stack Overflow to referral programs and working with leading headhunters to identify niche talent
• Managing end-to-end recruitment lifecycle across career streams by helping build high performance teams in Product & Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, QA and Distributed Systems by strategizing hiring and working on process improvements and innovations
• Actively working on identifying new vendors/headhunters, evaluating vendor performance, working on TA Audit & bi-monthly reporting & analysis of various metrics
• Campus Hiring, Branding & Engagement
• Driving proactive Campus Hiring initiatives across IITs, NITs, and other top Engineering Institutes across the country
• Successfully negotiating best day slot with IITs and BITS Pilani to target the best pool for both internships & final placements
• Anchoring campus recruitment drives, delivering pre-placement talks and effectively designing & implementing multiple level assessment process

Sep 2018 – Aug 2019 · 11 mos · Noida Area, India

• Behavioural Interventions:
• Collaborating with external trainers for training content design and evaluating external promotion trainings for Associate Engineers, Engineers, Senior Engineers & General Managers
• Complete ownership for designing & managing the induction of campus hires-as FTEs and interns (4-day comprehensive induction programme) as well as of lateral joinees (1-day)
• Designing content and facilitating org wide workshops on Diversity & Inclusion, Teamwork & Collaboration and Communication Skills
• Facilitating training sessions on Samsung History, Values & Vision as well as mandatory training on Global Employee Guidelines and Travel Readiness Sessions (for employees going on International Business trips)
• Managing Korean language tutorials for leaders, HR & Management Support staff
• Driving HQ-initiated online courses as well eLearning courses on Samsung University across R&D units
• Monthly consolidation & reporting of L&D metrics to senior management
• Technical Interventions:
• Complete ownership of technical training & certifications for the Software Quality Enhancement, Software Engineering & Project Management units from understanding the training needs of the business to organizing the trainings internally/externally
• Designing technical training programmes for interns and new campus hires
• Driving Advanced, Professional & Expert level Software Competency Tests-a global benchmarking practice driven by HQ that helps developers sharpen their programming skills
• Key Initiatives:
• Conceptualized & managed the first ever Korean Culture Experience at SRI Noida-a half-day Korean culture extravaganza aimed at giving employees a taste of Korean lifestyle, culture & festivities
• Organized & managed Technovate 2018-the annual technical fest at SRI Noida where engineers showcase their ideas which are taken forward for patenting

Feb 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida Area, India

• Global Leadership (C-Suite) Recruitment
• Complete ownership for hiring GM-, Director- & VP-level technology leaders from markets like the US, Singapore and India for niche areas like Digital Healthcare, Cryptography, Ethical Hacking, Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data and Analytics
• Extensive experience in headhunting and employing sourcing channels like LinkedIn, Naukri & employee referrals to identify and engage with active and passive candidates
• End-to-End CXO-level hiring experience-from working with vendors and sourcing from various channels to organizing recruitment events overseas in the US and Singapore and post offer connect until onboarding
• Campus Hiring, Branding & Engagement
• Redefining traditional Campus Recruitment by driving proactive Campus Hiring initiatives across IITs, NITs, and other top Engineering Institutes and B-Schools across the country
• Leveraging technology & social media to identify, attract & engage with top talent across universities
• Successfully negotiating best day slot with IITs and BITS Pilani to target the best pool for both internships & final placements
• Preparing the list of tier 1 & tier 2 E-Schools by benchmarking against various reports
• Anchoring campus recruitment drives, delivering pre-placement Talks and effectively designing & implementing multiple level assessment process
• Key Initiatives
• Conceptualized & successfully implemented Samsung R&D Institute Noida’s annual competitive coding challenge- Code The Next across the country. Approx 9000 coders across India participated in the first #CodeTheNext
• Designed a new Internal Job Posting policy covering nearly 2300 employees with specific suggestions regarding its implementation and branding across SRI-N
• Proposed & implemented Red Carpet for all selected C-Suite candidates thus ensuring successful post-offer connect, engagement and smooth onboarding

Apr 2016 – Jan 2017 · 9 mos

• I specialise in end-to-end lateral recruitment, market mapping, stakeholder management, providing a great candidate experience and ensuring smooth on-boarding .
• I utilize recruitment as both an opportunity to develop a strong online presence as well as a chance to create talent engagement and community building of smart professionals.
• Areas of Hiring include but are not limited to Networking & Embedded, Software Products & Platforms, Core Engineering, IoT and for the Advanced Engineering Group.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos

• I handle the complete lateral recruitment lifecycle for the niche Engineering Services unit at Infosys.
• Areas of Hiring include but are not limited to Networking & Embedded, Software Products & Platforms, Core Engineering, IoT and for the Advanced Engineering Group.
• Expertise in providing Innovative and Strategic Talent Solutions, ability to Business Partner with Hiring Managers and with Key Leadership to ensure the recruiting strategy is aligned with the overall business strategy
• Conceptualizing and designing the sourcing plan through various channels in order to meet unit targets within overall budgets
• Experience with high volume recruiting of a variety of generic, niche and super niche skilled IT professionals and senior managerial level positions across multi-disciplines for nationwide requirements
• Monitoring and continuously improving key recruitment metrics (lead time, conversion/decline ratios, source mix etc.) that have an impact on business, identifying trends and gaps to enable quick and easy decision making across different stakeholders

Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Info Edge is India's premier on-line classifieds company in recruitment (Naukri.com,Naukrigulf.com,Naukri FastForward.com), matrimony (Jeevansathi.com), real estate (99acres.com), education (Shiksha.com) and related services. The company has over 3000 people operating through 53 offices in 34 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai, Riyadh and Bahrain.
• PROJECT BRIEF:
• Building effective hiring systems through the following
• Benchmarking and proposing a new employee referral policy
• Studying and building a detailed campus hiring process for Product Management roles and Web Design roles
• Suggesting Employer Branding strategies for the target campuses
• DELIVERABLES:
• Designed a new employee referral policy covering nearly 3200 employees with specific suggestions regarding its implementation and branding across Info Edge India Ltd.
• Designed a detailed campus hiring process and campus branding strategy for Product Management Roles
• Designed a detailed campus hiring process and campus branding strategies for Web Design Roles
• Developed 10 caselets for use during Product Management hiring along with the senior Product Management teams
• Recruited 16 software engineers by organizing 4 recruitment drives (2 each in Noida and Bengaluru) through sourcing 176 software engineers
• Organized and managed the orientation of engineering summer interns and software engineers (approx. 40 nos.)

Aug 2012 – Jan 2013 · 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• I underwent extensive classroom and on the job training on various aspects of coal and gas fired power plants and also visited the power plants of GMR Energy in Maharashtra, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh for a period of six weeks at each location and assisted the teams at each of these locations in the boiler light-up.
• Key Assignments/ Initiatives:
• Assisted the plant team comprising of Executives and Managers from GMR and S. Korea based Doosan Heavy Industries in the commissioning of the boiler
• Organized CSR Initiatives to help the children of a government school, the HIV patients and the aged in Vemagiri village, Andhra Pradesh and conducted the Joy of Giving Week at Anandwan in Maharashtra with GMR Varalakshmi Foundation

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Innovation Centre, Manipal

• Developing the Electrical Model of an Electric Arc Furnace.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Bhopal Area, India

Jun 2010 – Jun 2010 · 0 mo · Ranchi Area, India