Chaitra Shashikumar

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Proven track record in leadership hiring and talent acquisition strategies.
Strong stakeholder collaboration to solve complex recruiting challenges.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert with a focus on building teams in fast-paced environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionLeadership HiringRecruiting

Other Skills

Benefits NegotiationCold CallingEmployee RelationsExecutive SearchHeadhuntingHuman ResourcesInductionInternet RecruitingJoining FormalitiesMappingNetworkingOnboardingScreeningSearchSourcing

About

I am a seasoned Talent Acquisition leader with deep expertise in Talent Advisory, Leadership Hiring, Strategy and planning. I possess the business acumen to successfully collaborate with stakeholders to define, create and execute innovative and practical recruiting programs to solve complex recruiting challenges. I have experience working in start-ups & fast paced organisations, where i played a critical role in building/transforming the organisations and scaling the people function. I am passionate about people and building diverse & inclusive workplaces. Specialties: Talent Acquisition and Management Talent Research and Market Intelligence Talent Acquisition Strategies Cost effective Hiring models Metrics driven hiring Brand Building Process Improvement

Experience

Cred

Talent & Culture

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Instabase

Talent Acquisition Leader

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Instabase is an operating system with toolkits and applications for companies to fundamentally change how people build and consume business apps.
Built out of MIT and backed by a16z, Index, Greylock, and NEA, Instabase is growing rapidly.
I lead the Talent Acquisition for India.
Check out our career-page: https://instabase.com/careers/

Talent AcquisitionLeadership Hiring

Flipkart

4 roles

Talent Acquisition Manager

Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 · 7 mos

Currently managing the Product, Design & Program Management Org.
Looking for Product Managers, Product Designers, Design Managers, Program Managers.

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Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

Sep 2019 – Aug 2020 · 11 mos

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Senior Talent Acquistion Partner

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

Working closely with the Business leaders/Stakeholders in building high potential teams.
Hiring folks in the areas of:
Machine Learning, NLP & Algorithms for Data Sciences Group
Security Engineering
Technical Product Managers
Architects/Principal Architects
SDE III's for Cloud Platform & Data Platform
Operations Engineers
Hands-on experience in hiring for mid to senior level positions.
Interested in learning more on what's happening at Flipkart ?? - Drop a note at chaitra.bs@flipkart.com. I'll work with you to find something exciting:)

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Talent Acquisition Partner

Dec 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs

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Amelia

Corporate Recruiter

Jun 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Responsible for building the R&D team (Amelia) in Bangalore
Hired for other teams like Networking, Applications, Windows and Automation teams.
Managed the end-to-end recruitment for all the above Business units.
Recreated the Employee Referral Program to attract the best talent in the market.

Recruiting

Bt - tso, india

Staffing Specialist

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Recruiting

Software ag

Talent Acquisition Executive

Sep 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software AG offers the first end-to-end Digital Business Platform, based on open standards, with integration, process management, in-memory data, adaptive application development, real-time analytics and enterprise architecture management as core building blocks. The modular platform allows users to develop the next generation of application systems to build their digital future, today.
Responsible for the end to end recruitment for Global Consulting Services (webMethods)
Handled mid to senior level hiring (Consultants, Snr/Principal Consultants, Architects, Managers)
Designed the "Meet & Greet" Program with all the offered candidates to reduce offer Drop-out's

Recruiting