Nidhi Raina

Recruiter

India10 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Built engineering teams from scratch at New Relic.
Bootstrapped Microsoft’s R&D center with 520+ hires.
Expert in global talent acquisition and diversity hiring.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and HR Tech expert with a strong focus on talent acquisition and engineering team building.

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Skills

Core Skills

Global Talent AcquisitionDiversity HiringTalent AcquisitionEmployer BrandingSourcing StrategiesSoftware EngineeringHuman Capital Management

Other Skills

CC++Candidate AssessmentCandidate ExperienceCore JavaDiversity and InclusionERP DevelopmentExecutive SearchHTMLHuman ResourcesIT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingLeadershipManagementManual Testing

About

✨ Principal Recruiter | Building World-Class Tech Teams | Global Talent Partner ✨ 📢I’m an Organization Builder & Talent Strategist with 11+ years of experience helping global product companies and startups scale high-performing engineering teams. 💡At New Relic, I led the 0→1 journey of building its India presence—establishing the development center, hiring mid-to-leadership talent, and shaping the foundation of its engineering teams. Earlier, as the founding recruiter for Microsoft’s Noida R&D campus, I bootstrapped the site by scaling 500+ hires across Engineering + Devices and SCIM while driving diversity and employer branding initiatives. 🌍 Expertise: -Scaling engineering orgs & leadership hiring -Global recruitment strategy (India + APJ + US) -Diversity hiring & inclusive recruitment practices -Employer branding & candidate experience 💡 Mission: To connect exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and help organizations scale with impact, culture, and innovation. 🚀 Always open to conversations on global talent, hiring strategy, and building recruiting engines from scratch. 🎯 With a foundation as a software engineer, I bring both technical depth and people strategy to scaling organizations.

Experience

New relic

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Designed and executed a scalable talent acquisition strategy to support hypergrowth for NewRelic's India Dev Center.
Built and scaled engineering teams from scratch, hiring engineers across levels and tech stack, including Directors, while ensuring diversity.
Partnered with CTO, GVPs, and hiring managers to define hiring needs and drive alignment.
Led training for junior recruiters, enhancing team productivity.
Established new Staff Engineering, AIOps, and Web Growth teams in India (Bangalore & Hyderabad).
Optimized interview scheduling for efficiency and launched a robust referral program to improve candidate quality.
ATS: Avature, Greenhouse

Diversity and InclusionStakeholder ManagementLeadershipCandidate AssessmentGlobal Talent AcquisitionCandidate Experience+25

Microsoft

Talent Acquisition Recruiter- IDC

Sep 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Led full-cycle recruitment for Engineering + Devices (E+D), and SCIM verticals, driving hiring for O365, MS Teams, Office Product Group, and more.
Played a key role in bootstrapping Microsoft’s new R&D center in Noida, building teams from scratch.
Hired 520+ candidates, with ~60% diversity in that tenure.
Spearheaded employer branding efforts to attract top talent and improve candidate experience.
Managed employee referrals campaign's.
Led recruitment drives for E+D India events (onsite & virtual) and contributed to
Projects like Alumni Meetup /Springboard/ Codess/Hackathon
Hosted HR Connection Day as part of MicrosoftOne HR.
I continued my journey as a Branding enthusiast; drove critical & globally recognized initiatives such as revamping Microsoft India's career website. This was recognized as a 1st of a kind geo-based webpage showcasing employee journeys through the lens of Microsoft's culture.

Talent AcquisitionEmployer Branding

Veritas technologies llc

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Oct 2016 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra

Led full cycle recruitment for Veritas R&D teams in India, specializing in core engineering roles.
Partnered with onshore hiring teams to understand client requirements and develop sourcing strategies for 2 major Product teams: Enterprise Vault & Netbackup
Managed job postings, applicants, and supported passive and active sourcing through social media
platforms.
ATS: Workday

Talent AcquisitionSourcing Strategies

Moser baer india ltd

Software Engineer

Jun 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Delhi, India

Coding & Configuration of ERP-Human Capital Management Portal (HCM)
Working on Human Capital Management Portal -The use of this portal is to help companies implement complete recruitment, Hire-to-retire HR processes that support their long-term business strategy.
This product enables HR orchestrate its processes end to end more efficiently so companies can better cope with the dual challenges of rising resource costs and reduced availability of quality resources.
It is the application that unifies HR, Talent Management, Payroll, Time tracking in to a single system of record.
HCM Solution has web based control panels that fully integrated payroll with all your HR activities in easy to use interface that is highly intuitive.

Software EngineeringHuman Capital Management