Kirthana Thomas

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led recruitment strategies for top engineering talent.
Revamped hiring processes, reducing time-to-hire by 67%.
Founded a startup aiming to change drinking culture in India.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruitment expert with a focus on AI and talent management.

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Skills

Core Skills

It RecruitmentLeadership

Other Skills

AnalyticsCC++CommunicationData AnalysisData ScienceEmployer BrandingHR AnalyticsHTMLHrbpMachine LearningMaltegoMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Word

About

I believe in delivering the best experience whether internal or external! Meeting new people and learning about different personas and technology is what I love to do! So, feel free to write to me of your interesting backgrounds 😊I also recently started "Skol - sip happens" as my side hustle. Hoping to change India’s drinking culture 😬

Experience

Senior Recruiter GTM

Dec 2025 – Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Skol

Founder

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Pleo

2 roles

Senior Talent Partner

Promoted

Dec 2021 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Strategic Hiring Partner to Leadership: Collaborated closely with senior stakeholders VPs, C-level & directors to source and build ideal candidate profiles and develop outcome-focused hiring strategies aligned with product and business goals.
Lead end-to-end recruitment for all roles in Engineering, Product, and Design. (Associate cohort to VP level hires)
Increased Hiring Velocity & Quality: Designed and revamped hiring processes, contributing to a 35% YoY increase in hires and reducing time-to-hire by 67% (60 to 20 days) through structured interview frameworks and improved assessment quality, and passive sourcing workshops
Tooling and enablement: Owner and implementation of Codesignal, LinkedIn Recruiter, metaview, ATS, Greenhouse, crosshq improvements, and APIs. Built frameworks for the team’s productivity.
Built and scaled Pleo’s AI talent hiring strategy—recruiting top engineers and Product Managers in AI. Built the talent strategy and integrated AI tools into sourcing and evaluation to drive faster, higher-quality hiring.

Program ManagementData AnalysisSourcingIT RecruitmentLeadership

Talent Partner

Dec 2021 – Oct 2022 · 10 mos

Joined the team to be part of the Market expansion team, with an ambition to go to 13 markets in 11 months. I lead the hiring of the core team of Customer support, Marketing head, Product lead, and Engineering lead in each market we opened. Within the EU.
Built employer branding in each country we launched in, worked along with the brand and marketing team as well as stakeholders across the business functions- revenue, Engineering, and Product.