Vivek Kumar

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 9 years of experience in Talent Acquisition.
  • Led a team of 5 for leadership hiring.
  • Received Employee of the Year Award in 2021-22.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the SaaS industry.

Contact

vivek.kumar@exotel.comLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTeam Management

Other Skills

CRMCustomer ServiceHR ComplianceHuman ResourcesLeadershipManagementMarket ResearchMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordPayrollPowerPointProject ManagementPublic SpeakingRecruitingResearch

About

I am a passionate Talent Acquisition professional with more than 9 years of experience.Beyond hiring, I focus on stakeholder management, ensuring alignment with business goals, and fostering strong relationships across teams. In my current role, I lead a team of 5 and oversee leadership hiring across Technology, Product, and Sales. I’ve been fortunate to receive several accolades, including the Employee of the Year Award for 2021-22

Experience

Exotel

6 roles

Principal Talent Acquisition Partner

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Associate Manager-TA

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Responsibilities
  • Leading a team of 5 member to deliver monthly targets.
  • Impact
  • Responsible for helping build the leadership team , product,sales and tech teams.
  • Ideated and implemented a recruitment and referral bot which helped in automating the recruitment process.
  • Integration of hiring process after the merger bringing about standardised process across all business units
  • Have the highest number of individual offers in a month(22).
  • Awards
  • Awarded Ninja Award -Employee of the Year in 2021
Team ManagementRecruitingTalent AcquisitionSourcingProject Management

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Sep 2021 · 5 mos

Talent & Payroll Specialist

Jun 2020 – Mar 2021 · 9 mos

  • Handled multiple responsibility of recruitment and payroll

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Promoted

Nov 2019 – May 2020 · 6 mos

Human Resources Coordinator

Dec 2018 – Oct 2019 · 10 mos

Am placements

Assistant Manager

Nov 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Unison international consulting ( the recruitment company)

Associate Consultant- Recruitment

Mar 2016 – Aug 2016 · 5 mos

Education

Asia Pacific Institute Of Management

Master’s Degree — Human Resource Management

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

Jagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS)

Bachelor’s Degree

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013

Earthinators Climate School

High School

Jan 1997 – Jan 2010

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