Krish S

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered talent acquisition strategy at Multiplier.
  • Coached a team of recruiters across APAC.
  • Global talent sourcing experience in multiple countries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the SaaS industry.

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Core Skills

MentoringCoachingTalent AcquisitionRecruitment StrategiesSourcingRecruitment Marketing

Other Skills

Applicant Tracking SystemsBankingBoolean SearchingBuilding TrustCRMCold CallingContract RecruitmentData AnalysisDiversity & InclusionGlobal RecruitingHiringHuman ResourcesHuman Resources (HR)Internet RecruitingInterviewing

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๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฑ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ!! ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ. ๐‚๐€๐‘๐„๐„๐‘ ๐‡๐ˆ๐†๐‡๐‹๐ˆ๐†๐‡๐“๐’ โœ… Pioneering Engineering & GTM talent acquisition strategy at Multiplier - a high growth B2B tech SaaS company, scaling Multiplier's engineering team through Seed, Series A, and Series B stages of funding. Process set up - ATS, interview scheduling, tech hiring retro, TAT for recruitment lifecycle, onboarding new members, sourcing workflow automation, glassdoor reviews etc. โœ… Responsible for building teams from scratch for GICโ€™s like Adessa India and Kmart to re-platform from existing architecture of monolithic platform to microservices-based platform. โœ… Global talent sourcing experience in the US, India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, Philippines, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and Australia. โœ… Successfully coached and mentor my team of 5 recruiters across APAC, helping them scale on social media sourcing techniques, boolean search capabilities, recruitment marketing, candidate engagement & management and offer negotiation. โœ… Led sourcing team for IMDA virtual career fair (organized by Ministry of Manpower, Singapore) with 50+ clients participating in the event. ๐‚๐Ž๐Œ๐๐„๐“๐„๐๐‚๐ˆ๐„๐’ โœ… Expert in LinkedIn X-ray search, Github, LinkedIn recruiter, Seekout, HireEZ. Also have exposure sourcing on Stackoverflow, Twitter, and Meetup. โœ… Use tools to automate and speed up the sourcing process. โœ… Used free email campaign tools to engage passive candidates and consistently maintained a 40% average response rate for e-mails & LinkedIn InMails in the APAC market. โœ… Completed 16 levels in sourcing games and am on pause now because of the arrival of my daughter Inaaya. ๐Š๐„๐„๐ ๐ˆ๐๐“๐„๐‘๐„๐’๐“ ๐€๐‘๐„๐€ โœ… Industry leaders I follow - Irina Shamaeva, Jonathan Kidder, Jan Tegze, Suzanna Frazier, Dean De Costa, Glenn Gutmacher, Eric Jaquith etc โœ… My weekends look like - Stay at home dad, trail riding (KTM Adventure 390 ๐Ÿ˜ - keyword to grab my attention), Music, Podcast, Geo-politics and Kindle.

Experience

Sprinto

Lead, Talent Acquisition (GTM)

Jul 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 8 mos ยท Remote

Multiplier

2 roles

Manager, Talent Acquisition - Engineering & GTM (ANZ, APAC, EMEA, AND US)

Mar 2024 โ€“ Jun 2025 ยท 1 yr 3 mos ยท India ยท Remote

  • โœ… Spearhead the hiring initiatives for the Engineering AND GTM team, emphasizing their significance in fueling Multiplierโ€™s progression and triumph.
  • โœ… Mentor a compact and energetic 3 member Talent Acquisition team, emphasizing constant development and collaborative spirit.
  • โœ… Partner with senior leadership to identify and forecast hiring needs, contributing to the development of long-term talent acquisition strategies.
  • โœ… Employ analytical methods to monitor recruitment indicators, guiding data-informed strategies to refine talent acquisition processes and achieve company objectives.
  • Present countries of operation for Multiplier's hiring initiatives -
  • India (Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad)
  • Vietnam
  • Sri Lanka
  • Serbia
  • Singapore
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment StrategiesData Analysis

Lead, Talent Acquisition - Engineering and GTM (APAC and EMEA)

Oct 2021 โ€“ Feb 2024 ยท 2 yrs 4 mos ยท India ยท Remote

  • โœ… Building & scaling from seed through Series B: Pioneered talent acquisition strategy to scale the 2 most important functions from scratch.
  • > Engineering - focused on APAC & EMEA to hire Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Data Engineers, and SDETs.
  • > Sales Outbound Engine - focused on APAC to build the BDR & AE outbound engine from scratch.
  • Quantiable Results
  • 1. 105 offers (and counting) in 22 months with an 88% joining ratio
  • 2. Engineering Hires - 42 offers with an 85% joining ratio
  • 3. Sales Hires - 44 offers with an 88% joining ratio
  • โœ… Sourcing: Hands-on sourcing using cutting-edge tools like Sourcewhale and SeekOut to automate and speed up recruitment which resulted in 18-25x faster, optimized, and engaging outreach.
  • Quantiable Results
  • 1. Messaged - 1529 (and counting)
  • 2. Open - 80%
  • 3. Reply - 52%
  • 4. Interest - 26%
  • โœ… Process setup: Introduction of new ATS, standardized interview scheduling process, monthly tech hiring retro, formulated timelines (TAT) for entire recruitment cycle, onboarding new recruiters with tools, sourcing workow using a combination of LinkedIn recruiter + seekout + sourcewhale, glassdoor review.
  • โœ… Work compensation benchmarking: Redened global remote work compensation based on a national or regional average using PayScale, Salary Explorer, and salary data from my personal hiring process over 2 years.
  • โœ… Leadership: Coaching, mentoring, and leading a team of 3 recruiters and 1 coordinator driving strategies scaling up from the seed stage and presently in the Series B stage.
Talent AcquisitionSourcingProcess Setup

Topmate.io

Mentor

Jan 2022 โ€“ Present ยท 4 yrs 2 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

MentoringCoaching

Techbridge market

Team Lead - Talent Acquisition

Oct 2019 โ€“ Sep 2021 ยท 1 yr 11 mos ยท Singapore

  • โœ… Coaching and mentoring a team of 5 recruiters, helping them scale on social media sourcing techniques, boolean search capabilities, recruitment marketing, candidate engagement & management and offer negotiation.
  • โœ… Recruiting for niche and cutting-edge technology positions in APAC market (Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand etc.).
  • โœ… Outside APAC, recruited for positions in India and Australia. Targeted top European countries like Ukraine, Poland, and Russia for mobile application developers.
  • โœ… The primary point of contact for 15+ accounts, responsible for delivery, escalations, and renewals.
CoachingRecruitment MarketingTalent Acquisition

Ansr global

Talent Acquisition

May 2018 โ€“ Oct 2019 ยท 1 yr 5 mos ยท Bengaluru Area, India

  • Sourcing Specialist (payroll of Ikyaglobal - March 2019 to Oct 2019)
  • RPO - Senior Recruiting Scientist (payroll of Huntnbadge - May 2018 to March 2019)
  • ANSR is Indiaโ€™s largest GIC consulting firm and has helped companies such as Target Corporation, Wells Fargo Bank, L Brands, Loweโ€™s Companies Inc., Time Inc., CME Group, AB-Inbev and JC Penney to plan, establish and operate among the most successful capabilities in the history of the GIC services industry.
  • Built teams from the scratch for 3 global capability centre's (GCC) at Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore.
  • โœ… Adessa Falabella
  • โœ… Ascena Retail Group
  • โœ… Kmart

Allegis group

2 roles

Senior Recruiter II

Promoted

Aug 2016 โ€“ Apr 2018 ยท 1 yr 8 mos ยท Bengaluru Area, India

  • TEKsystemsยฎ, Inc. is the nationโ€™s largest IT staffing firm and has been ranked #1 in the industry by IT Services Business Report.
  • Specialty focus includes:
  • 1) Java Technologies - Web API, SOAP, REST, SOA, Angular, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, MQ โ€“ โ€œKafka, IBM MQ, Active MQโ€, Multi-Threading.
  • 2) Android development โ€“ Java, Android Studio, Gradle, Object Oriented Programming.
  • 3) IOS development โ€“ Objective C, Xcode, Swift, Restful API.
  • 4) Quality Assurance/ Quality Engineer โ€“ Automation, Selenium, Mobile testing & Appium.
  • 5) Oracle DBA โ€“ Goldengate, Exadata, Dataguard, Performance tuning.
  • 6) SQL DBA โ€“ SQL server, SSIS, SSRS.
  • Achievements
  • 1) Contest winner, 2017.
  • 2) Gem of Feb, 2017.
  • 3) Highest spread maker for the aligned office in Q1, Q2 and Q3.

Senior Recruiter

Jul 2012 โ€“ Dec 2013 ยท 1 yr 5 mos ยท Bengaluru Area, India

  • Handled off-shore sourcing and recruitment for mid and senior level positions with Barclaycard through Allegis RPO.
  • Speciality focus includes
  • Information Security, Java & .Net etc
  • Rewards & Recognitions
  • 1) Contest winner, 2013
  • 2) Gem for Feb 2013
  • 3) Go getters for April, 2013

Litez creations (famiy business)

Managing Partner

Dec 2013 โ€“ Aug 2016 ยท 2 yrs 8 mos ยท Ernakulam

  • Litez Creations is one of the leading lighting designers and dealers of lighting systems and accessories based in Ernakulam. Blending functionality with technology and style, Litez Creations offer lighting design for different spaces.

Bangalore international placement services private limited - bips

Recruitment Consultant

Sep 2011 โ€“ Jul 2012 ยท 10 mos ยท Bangalore

  • BIPS is a one stop recruitment solution firm for all manpower requirements from the Indian subcontinent, i.e, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The areas of specialization are into Information Technology, Oil/Gas, and Construction, Engineering, Marine, Catering, and Health care with employee strength of 50.

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) โ€” Human Resources Management and Services

Jan 2009 โ€“ Jan 2011

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