Feb 2021 – Jun 2021 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Made 4 hires (6 offers out), 1 VP, 2 Senior Directors and 1 IC (in product). Closed two business critical engineering searches open for over 6 months each, for mobile and data intelligence.
• Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States.

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• YC W2020 Startup
• Build customer-facing dashboards, lightning fast. Stop wasting time building custom dashboards and one-off requests. Create beautiful, configurable dashboards that embed directly in your app.
• Explo has an all star team that has worked at companies like Google, Palantir, Amazon & McKinsey with an academic track from CMU and Columbia. It incubated in the YC W20 batch and had an incredible launch on Product Hunt.
• Check out Explo's COVID-19 dashboard at Explo.co/covid
• PRESS COVERAGE:
• https://siecledigital.fr/2020/05/12/explo-outils-analyse-donnees-sans-sql/
• https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/all-the-companies-from-y-combinators-w20-demo-day-part-i-b2b-companies/

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Vahan is a technology company headquartered in Bangalore. Our product has been successfully deployed at leading organizations in sectors such as Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare and BFSI where engaging and supporting a large, distributed workforce is a challenge. We are backed by an illustrious set of investors such as Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures and Airtel.

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Dover is a recruitment orchestration platform. aimed at recruiters, it helps them juggle and aggregate multiple candidate pools to source suitable job candidates automatically, and then manage the process of outreach (including using tools to automatically re-write job descriptions, as well as to write recruitment and rejection letters).

May 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• www.rippling.com
• A YC startup.
• Simply put, Rippling makes it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers,
• and apps — all in one, modern platform.
• There should be a single system of employee data that sits underneath every other business system.
• Companies and their employees could come to this one place, and make changes to employees in this one system, and that system would handle the propagation out to every other business system.

Jun 2015 – Dec 2015 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Administered the transition and moving of 12 people from the United States to India for SVP, VP, and Director roles in Product & Engineering. Completed a critical and pivotal search for a SVP of Product Management by placing a passive candidate from Google (Press: http://read.bi/1Sl4UmR).
• Organized and oversaw two recruiting blitzes in the Bay Area, one week each in length with over 40 candidates who were interviewed by a panel of 4-6 interviewers who flew in from India. This blitz was the first of its kind at executive and leadership levels.

Apr 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Razorpay is India’s first full-stack financial solutions company. https://razorpay.com/

Feb 2015 – Jul 2015 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• During a short stint at the White House, worked for Todd Park (USA's ex-CTO, Technology Advisor to President Obama) and with Mikey Dickerson (Founder of US Digital Services).
• Charged with assisting in the recruitment and hiring of stellar executive talent from the engineering and product functional areas.
• Orchestrated the moving of these executives to D.C., where they would direct large technology and product teams to positively impact the lives of 10s of millions of citizens across the United States. The Healthcare.gov fix led by Todd Park in 2014 is an example of what this initiative was all about: http://rust-class.org/static/classes/class12/healthcare.gov.html

Sep 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr · Mountain View, CA

• Dispensed around 75 full-time offers, 20 internship offers (directed the KPCB Fellow Program) and organized and facilitated the Intern Open House. Conducted and closed the General Counsel search.
• Directed the initiation and administration of the Women Luncheon Series across the company to influence Women in Tech recruiting.
• Implemented the ATS (Jobvite), managed a sourcer, implemented all recruiting processes.

Aug 2011 – Jan 2012 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Recruited by the Founder and Chief Executive Officer to help build the engineering organization.
• Provided operational efficiency to the Vice President of Engineering by reducing the agency recruiter pool significantly, streamlining the recruiting process and managing the candidate pipeline.
• Recruited many engineers for the team and built a strong pipeline of engineering talent.

Sep 2010 – May 2011 · 8 mos · San Francisco

• Made and distributed more than 40 offers, majority for engineers. 20% pipeline from passive sourcing, 40% from employee lead sourcing (increased from 10% in 6 months), and 40% from postings/inbound sourcing.
• Initiated, directed and closed the General Counsel as well as Director of Staffing search.
• Handled the placement of Manager of Customer Support, UX, and engineering (iOS, Ruby) talent.
• Implemented the ATS (Jobvite), managed a sourcer, implemented all recruiting processes.
• Established the recruiting function, implemented Jobvite, an ATS system, recruiting processes and provided reports on recruiting for company and board meetings.

Mar 2009 – Aug 2009 · 5 mos

• As Twitter's first and sole full time recruiter headed up staffing for a 28 person startup going through a recruiting dry-spell, taking it through its most difficult and yet explosive growth. Processed *unimaginable* number of inbound emails, referrals, resumes from VCs, investors and Twitter's collective close network.
• Handled the making of more than 60 offers in Engineering, Product, UX, and SRE.
• Started the first engineering meetup, one of a kind recruiting blitz within engineering using StackOverflow and Github.
• Directed the VP of BD search, pinpointing prospective talent before the search was put on hold.
• Oversaw all aspects of and completed the Head of Search Engineering search for the company.
• Provided direction to and oversaw the operations of two coordinators. Implemented Jobvite, recruiting processes.
• My Favorite Twitter Moments:
• Discovering @twitter in 2008 during "mumbai blast" (my twitter "aha" moment)
• Meeting @biz one late evening for the first time and listening to his vision for Twitter
• Working with @ev on the VP BD search
• Meeting @jack - period
• Follow me at www.twitter.com/RecruitingDiva

Aug 2008 – Feb 2009 · 6 mos

• Lead the most critical (PM) role at the time and closed within a 3 month period (position open for over a year).
• Helped recruit for National Sales Team - Director of Sales (NYC, Chicago), AE, Sales Planners, Ad Operations Manager

May 2008 – Apr 2009 · 11 mos

• Gokul Rajaram, "Godfather of Google Adsense" - Founder Profile at http://tinyurl.com/5k979e OR http://tinyurl.com/22gagb
• KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Identified and placed Employee #1 and Employee #2

Apr 2008 – Feb 2009 · 10 mos

• KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: 11 offers at all levels ranging from Director to Engineers.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

• KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Started when the company still had single digit employees and in less than one year, made almost 20 offers across sales and engineering. Helped hire more than half the engineering team and the sales team - VP BD/Sales, Sr. Director East Coast Sales, Sr. Director Europe Sales, Account Manager, Inside Sales Rep, Sr. Engineering Manager, Software Engineers, founding SRE team and Codec Engineer etc.

Jun 2007 – Aug 2007 · 2 mos

• During this unique eight week summer 2007 stint, my role @ LI was to help core engineering (a.k.a CTO office), operations and products organizations with recruiting efforts. Worked closely with the core executive team and over 10 hiring managers across the company.
• KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: In 6 weeks, 135 onsites conducted, over 25 offers made and 24 accepted so far (and counting). Helped source and hire LinkedIn's SVP Operations (part of CEO's exec team), a VP of Engineering in the CTO's office, 4 Directors across all organizations, Product Managers, Engineers, Software Architects, UI designers, Web Developers, DBAs, International Program Manager, and more.

Oct 2006 – Present · 19 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• www.Instagram.com/RecruitingDiva (Coming Soon: Career/Job Search Pro-Tips)
• sangeeta@catapulsepartners.com
• I am currently advising companies as a Strategic Talent Partner.
• Helped build 4 companies as the 1st or early recruiter that reached Unicorn status, all have IPO'ed.
• Oversee executive placements for CHRO, General Counsel, CPO, & VP of Product, VP of Engineering, CTO, and Chief Architect. Work can be found and reviewed at https://www.catapulsepartners.com/our-searches
• Demonstrated track record of extensive in-house recruiting to develop initial product and engineering teams at numerous iconic companies, including Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Square, Coursera as well as Flipkart (India). See the work at each client in the profile below.

Jul 2006 – May 2007 · 10 mos · Mountain View

• After acquisition, Kosmix became @WalmartLabs. Helped build the initial team by working with founders Sesh, Venky and Anand. Loved the company culture, very family and consultant friendly - always felt part of the team! It was a close knit crew who went on to start companies and have stayed in touch!

Sep 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr

• KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Sourced and helped hire Google's VP of Research (worked with Alan Eustace) and Google India Engineering Head, Bangalore (worked with Bill Coughran). Recruited leadership and engineering talent across India, US engineering and Google.com (a.k.a. SRE groups).
• Sole Talent Scout for VP Platform position (worked with Urs) and sole full life-cycle recruiter for US based Google India Leadership recruiting.
• Helped identify leadership talent for Korea, Japan and Russia. Implemented several employee programs to generate leads. Full life-cycle recruiting. Successfully sourced and placed at record numbers, several engineering & product management directors, managers, software engineers and SRE engineers globally.
• NOTE: Started my work in SRE, Ben Treynor's group as a Sourcer and after 3 months moved to the Executive Recruiting team. Also helped Vivek Rau with his Launch team hiring.

Oct 2001 – Sep 2006 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• PromptHire is a boutique recruiting firm in the Silicon Valley, helping build engineering, product and design teams within startups.

Feb 2001 – Aug 2001 · 6 mos

• Managed outsourced staffing for Morphics Technologies (acquired by infineon Systems). Full life cycle recruiting managing one other recruiter. Made 5 offers a month for the 6 month period till hiring freeze.
• Talent recruited - ASIC, embedded, circuit design, networking software engineering, field sales etc.

Oct 1995 – Sep 2000 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• 1. Founding Product manager & Director of Internet Operations @ Catapulse Inc. - Transitioned into an IT project management role after spin-off. Responsible for intranet and extranet operations. Project management of product releases.
• 2. Product Manager@ Rational - As a Product Manager on the ClearQuest product, helped write the business plan for the "ASP" ClearQuest, leading to the Rational spin-off, Catapulse Inc. Was part of the founding team for this Benchmark funded start up (emp #5). Company acquired by parent company a year later.
• 3. Program Manager @ Rational - Managed Worlwide Beta Programs for the entire Rational product line; development of rational.com/beta website and automation of backend processing.
• 4. Technical Support Engineer @ Pure Software (which later became Pure Atria and was acquired by Rational Software), provided technical support for PureDDTS and ClearDDTS. Part of a special SWAT team put together by VP of Technical Support.