Sneha Sharad — Recruiter

I am an enthusiastic and results-driven Talent Acquisition professional with a curious mindset and a compassionate approach. As a Talent Acquisition Partner at Adobe, I oversee the end to end hiring process for multiple Engineering, Product, and Customer Solutions teams across India, APAC and North America, specializing in software Engineering, Leadership, and GTM roles at various levels. With over 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition, I have a proven track record of sourcing, engaging, and hiring diverse and specialized talent for one of the world’s leading technology companies. My expertise includes social media recruiting, Boolean search techniques, referencing, hiring strategies, candidate pipeline management, DEI initiatives, compensation negotiations, and data analytics. I work closely with hiring managers and stakeholders to align on hiring needs, track progress, and address any challenges. Additionally, I manage key projects both within and outside the recruiting scope, including Talent Community, AFI, Women Return ship, Boomerang & Alumni Network and Project Identity. I am passionate about making a positive impact through my work and continuously strive to innovate and improve recruitment processes and experiences. I am a firm believer in continuous learning, consistently seeking feedback, and using past experiences to transform complex processes into actionable and effective outcomes. As a Talent Acquisition professional, I take pride in cultivating strong, strategic relationships across regions and the talent ecosystem.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the SaaS industry with a focus on diverse hiring practices.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 12 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Talent Acquisition
Recruiting

Career Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in talent acquisition.
Expert in sourcing diverse and specialized talent.
Proven track record in improving recruitment processes.

Work Experience

Adobe

Talent Acquisition Partner (4 yrs 10 mos)

Ness Digital Engineering

Assistant Manager Recruitment (3 mos)

Publicis Sapient

Talent Acquisition Specialist (1 yr 8 mos)

Attra, a Synechron Company

Sr. IT Recruiter (2 yrs 5 mos)

Honda Motor India Pvt. Ltd

Senior Executive Human Resources ( on rolls of NKID) (1 yr 2 mos)

Randstad India

Assistant Consultant (2 yrs 4 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Xth & XIIth at Central Board of Secondary Education

Bachelor of Science - BS at Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur

Sneha Sharad

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in talent acquisition.
Expert in sourcing diverse and specialized talent.
Proven track record in improving recruitment processes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the SaaS industry with a focus on diverse hiring practices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Other Skills

Boolean search techniquesCandidate assessmentsCandidate engagementCandidate experience managementCandidate pipeline managementClient RelationsCompensation negotiationsContract RecruitmentDEI initiativesData analyticsEmployee EngagementEmployee GrievanceEmployee RelationsEnd-to-End IT recruitmentEnd-to-End recruitment

About

Experience

Adobe

Talent Acquisition Partner

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Spearheading end to end hiring for multiple Product Teams at Adobe.
Responsible for closing software engineering roles including multiple domains and levels in India.
Hands on with Social media hiring, Boolean searches and referencing.
Working closely with Hiring managers to discuss hiring strategies, candidate pipeline, DEI strategies, team fitment calls, weekly/bi-weekly progress etc.
Running multiple projects, both within and outside scope of recruiting. Example: Project Jade- Talent Community, Action for Inclusion, Project Identity, Boomerang, Shespark.
Planning and execution of batch-weeks for multiple product teams and managing it end to end.
Leading Employee Referral campaigns or contest for diffident product teams.
Collaborating and liaising with multiple teams and stakeholders in the hiring process mostly within APAC and NA regions.
Supporting the Onboarding team by initiating onboarding and BGV process.
Trainer for RPO/Contractors/Vendor team members
Responsible for mentoring and ramp-up of new members in team.
Skills: Principal ML Engineers, Sr. Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Full Stack Developers, Front End Developers (UI/UX), AEM/AEP Architect. Delivery Director, Sr. Architects, Sr. Java Engineers. etc.

Social media recruitingBoolean search techniquesCandidate pipeline managementDEI initiativesCompensation negotiationsData analytics+2

Ness digital engineering

Assistant Manager Recruitment

Feb 2021 – May 2021 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

● Hiring Cloud professionals AWS Lead, Architect and Developer for US and Bangalore location.
● Responsible for End-to-End IT recruitment. Manage the entire external candidate process - sourcing, screening, and closing external candidates.
● Strong experience in hunting leadership hiring, niche skills hiring.
● Strong experience in recruitment's, candidate assessments, fitment analysis and on-boarding.
● Partnering with stakeholders at different levels of the organization to cater to business needs.

End-to-End IT recruitmentSourcingScreeningCandidate assessmentsTalent Acquisition

Publicis sapient

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jun 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Role & Responsibilities
Handling the recruitment of various skills at Publicis Sapient.
Understand the business requirements and design recruiting /sourcing strategy to best meet business goals.
Handling the recruitment of various practices in at Publicis Sapient.
Closley working with Business Leads & clients to gather and define the requirements.
In case of hiring of niche skills taking initiative to source/search quality consultants through intensive research and direct contact, referencing.
End to End recruitment including discussing requirement with hiring managers, Sourcing, shortlisting, pre-screening (Telephonic interview), Employee Engagement, Scheduling interviews, Salary Negotiations, closing candidate on CTC, extending offers, and On boarding, Post Offer Follow up till the candidate join the organization.
Resume searching & job-postings on Monster, Naukri and LinkedIn ect.
Well versed with ATS Taleo.
Coordinating with interviewers in scheduling interviews and taking feedback regarding candidates.
Expertise in Industry Mapping & tracking across industry functions and segments.
Identify different sourcing channels to build candidate funnel
Keeping abreast with the market; industry trends, extensive research, strategy implementation and managing research inquiries / requests
Offer negotiation, offer release and closure.
Worked on Skills like Data Engineer, Data Science, Machine Learning, AWS, Azure, Java, Microservices, UX/UI Developers and Designers.

Recruitment strategySourcing strategyCandidate engagementIndustry mappingTalent Acquisition

Attra, a synechron company

Sr. IT Recruiter

Dec 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

As a Corporate Recruiter I bring in in-depth understanding of talent acquisition across various roles with sound technical skills and ability to handle end to end recruitment process.
● Expertise in entire recruitment life cycle: Requirement gathering, market intelligence, sourcing, HR screening, brief technical screening, offshore/onsite interview coordination, salary negotiations, offer rollouts, initiating pre onboarding formalities, metric reporting and onboarding candidates within the SLA's and ensuring 100% compliance.
● Recruited and placed 300 + employees in past 2.5 years across all locations (India, EMEA and APAC)
● Sourcing Platforms like personal data bank, Social Networks like LinkedIn Facebook, Twitter, Technology groups, Job Portals (Naukri, Monster, Hirist, and IIM Jobs) and Referral Network.
● Expertise in Stakeholder Management handling different BU's/Verticals workforce requirements in the organization.
● Strong experience in hunting leadership hiring, niche skills hiring, fitment analysis and on-boarding.
● Preparation of Staffing reports, weekly dashboard/ hiring plan, maintaining daily/weekly/monthly reports such as interview status, closure & feedback reports.

End-to-End recruitmentStakeholder managementMarket intelligenceTalent Acquisition