Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• One of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the CRM space, LeadSquared empowers organizations with the power of automation. More than 1700 customers with 200,000+ users across the globe utilize the LeadSquared platform to automate their sales and marketing processes and run high velocity sales at scale.
• LeadSquared is an Unicorn that has 1300+ employees spread across India, the U.S, Middle East, ASEAN, ANZ, and South Africa.
• Rahul is responsible for hiring talent in product/engineering; sales & professional services globally across geographies.

Nov 2015 – Dec 2020 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• In his current role he has overall responsibility for designing and deploying ZS’ Talent Acquisition Strategy to meet the talent growth needs for all businesses across India, Japan & Singapore. His and his team's key result areas include scouting and acquiring talent for the analytics (including Data Science); operations; technology capability groups and enterprise functions. He is also an integral part of the firm's global branding and positioning initiative and he works closely with senior leaders to carve out the vision and strategy in this regard.
• Core Skills: Talent Management, HR Business Partner, Talent Acquisition, Change Management, Culture alignment, Visioning & Goal setting facilitation,

Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Rahul’s responsibility includes end to end talent management for the technology groups across the Indian offices. He is successfully managing a team of 8 resources and has been responsible for their hiring, career path and coaching. He spends a considerable amount of time Business Partnering with Senior Leadership in identifying insights from exits and partnering with business leaders to improve retention. He is also expected to constantly monitor the pyramid across the technology groups and ensure that a healthy balance is always maintained. He creates and manages content for various internal communiques targeted towards employee affiliation and satisfaction. Additionally, he liaises with various groups of employees through 30 – 60 – 90 days check-in meetings to gather intelligence about their pulse. He is also accountable for formulating the annual recruiting strategy for the technology capability groups for both their campus and lateral channels. Leadership & strategic hiring (consultants and above) across all the capability groups. He also creates integration plans for senior hires and design interview process for various roles; create candidate profiles, grading tools, pipeline estimation tools etc. His key result areas also includes MBA recruiting and vendor management.

Jan 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Dec 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Dec 2007 – Nov 2008 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Vertical Lead for the Manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management and Engineering Services BUs
• Prior to Rahul’s ZS chapter, he was associated with Syntel from December’2007 – November’2008 as a vertical lead, acquiring talent for the Manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management and Engineering Services business units. He was the youngest (both from a tenure and overall experience point of view) recruiting vertical lead in the HR team and had many accomplishments (leading to accolades) within a short stint of time.

May 2007 – Nov 2007 · 6 mos

• Primary responsibilities included end to end recruiting of software professionals across all levels within the stipulated target time and ensuring the SLA to be under control. Owning various sources of recruitment like Employee referrals, job portals, walk-ins etc. Maintaining various trackers to track the status at each step and to objectively evaluate efforts in terms of closures. Skills hired for - AS/400; Cool Plex; Pega; Mainframes

May 2006 – Apr 2007 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Source and acquire talent for different skills and clients panning across B&FS; Insurance; Healthcare and manufacturing domains. Was the client contact for as many as 5 highly active clients and consistently over achieved targets.