Ankit Kumar

Technical Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Recognized multiple times with Rockstar Awards.
  • Expert in scaling teams and high-volume hiring.
  • Innovative in redefining candidate experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter with expertise in SaaS and Talent Acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

Client HandlingEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEnd to End RecruitingHiringHuman Resources (HR)IT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewingManagementMarket IntelligenceNegotiationNetworkingOnboardingRecruiting

About

As a Lead Tech & Product Recruiter at Paytm, I am responsible for sourcing and assembling exceptional talent across senior, mid-senior, and entry-level roles. My career is marked by consistent recognition, including multiple Rockstar Awards, for surpassing performance expectations. Prior to Paytm, I worked as a Tech & Product Recruiter at Microsoft, where I played a pivotal role in identifying and hiring top-tier talent for various technical and product roles. My experience at Microsoft helped refine my expertise in scaling teams, managing high-volume hiring, and collaborating with leadership to meet organizational goals. Before my time at Microsoft, I served as a Senior Technical Recruiter at Skillenza, where I gained valuable experience in recruiting for highly specialized technical roles. At Skillenza, I collaborated with startups and enterprises to solve their talent acquisition challenges, creating tailored recruitment strategies that resulted in successful hires for key positions. With a solid background blending human resources and finance, coupled with an MBA from Bangalore University and a SourcePRO certification, I bring a unique perspective to the recruitment process. Driven by a deep curiosity for discovering top talent, my mission is to redefine the candidate experience and enhance post-offer engagement. My commitment to continuous growth fuels my passion for adopting innovative methods and excelling in dynamic, diverse teams, ensuring each recruitment effort achieves excellence.

Experience

Paytm

Lead Technical Recruiter (Tech & Product Hiring)

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Microsoft

Technical Recruiter - Contract (Tech & Product Hiring)

Mar 2024Oct 2024 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • ▪ As a Technical Recruiter, executing a differentiated sourcing strategy for Microsoft IDC group, supporting C + AI hiring across India.
  • ▪ My role involved identifying candidates utilizing Linkedin, Github, X-Ray search (RecruitIn), Job
  • boards, Networking, Internal ATS also maintaining own database of candidates available through
  • references, mapping, and headhunting
  • ▪ Collaboration with internal stakeholders (senior recruiters, hiring managers and team members)-
  • process improvement, change management and strategic planning
  • ▪ Hired for technology roles which included Backend, Fullstack, Front end, Mobile (iOS & Android),Product/Project managers.
  • ▪ Research based competitive landscaping, building talent maps, market and staffing intelligence
  • ▪ Discussion on Company branding, requirement, candidate aspirations and expectations during initial screening of candidates.
  • ▪ Creatively interacting with candidates, crafting innovative outreaches, and developing sourcing
  • strategies.
SourcingRecruitingStakeholder ManagementMarket IntelligenceInterviewingTechnical Recruiting+1

Paytm

2 roles

Lead Recruiter (Tech & Product Hiring)

Promoted

Apr 2023Feb 2024 · 10 mos

Senior Associate (Tech Hiring)

Jun 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Current Responsibility:-
  • ✔End to End recruitment process for Senior, Mid Senior & entry-level roles across Paytm entity.
  • ✔Experience in advanced talent search techniques, ATS (Lever.co, RecruiterBox etc.), sourcing tools (Naukri, LinkedIn, IIMjobs, Instahyre etc.)
  • ✔Engaging with the recruitment vendors and taking care of the vendor Life cycle.
  • ✔Stakeholder interaction and management through regular sync-ups and presenting the hiring progress reports.
  • ✔Interview Panel management & New interview panel induction.
  • ✔Setting up interview rounds, feedback collection & sharing process.
  • ✔Working on the candidate’s interview experience & post offer engagement.
  • ✔Interacting with Internal Employees for running Employees referral programs.
End to End RecruitingStakeholder ManagementVendor ManagementInterviewingTechnical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Skillenza

2 roles

Sr. Talent Partner (Tech & Product Hiring)

Promoted

Jan 2020Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • #Platformforcompanies#Buildcommunities#runchallenges#Hirethebest#proveyourself
  • Skillenza is a challenge and peer learning platform. We are using a challenge model to help companies discover relevant talent and hire better people. The platform allows companies to post challenges to job seekers instead of boring job descriptions. These challenges mimic real working scenarios and give the job seekers a flavor of what problems they are going to tackle in the workplace.
  • Current responsibilities:-
  • ✔Working with product startups and enterprises to solve their hiring needs.
  • ✔End to End consulting on sourcing strategies, recruiting, screening, scheduling interviews, reference checking, negotiating, making offers, and closing position.
  • ✔Effectively recruited candidates through Internet research, internal database, referrals, and other strategies’
  • ✔Understanding the client requirements, coordinating for shortlisting and screening including preliminary interview of the candidates.
  • ✔Coordinating with candidates throughout the interview process. Follow-up with the shortlisted candidates
  • ✔Post offer follow-up until the candidate onboarding. Maintaining the status tracker of candidates.
  • ✔Coordination for Walk-in drives.
  • ✔Handled all the IT Technologies involving combination of complex skill sets and rare technologies.
  • ✔Responsible to understand and analyze the requirements in different domain categories.
  • ✔Provide feedback to internal and external customers on a real-time basis.
  • ✔Constantly working with various sourcing tools like Naukri, Monster, Angel-list, and Instahyre.
  • ✔In-depth understanding of the new age recruitment with challenges, Hackathons, and so on.
SourcingRecruitingNegotiationClient HandlingTechnical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Talent Acquistion Partner

Nov 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Education

Bangalore University

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Human Resource and Finance

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Bangalore University

BBM

Jan 2012Jan 2015

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