Neetu S Parab

Director of Engineering

Palo Alto, California, United States15 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

Scaled recruiting teams from hundreds to thousands.
Achieved 600+ hires in a single year.
Designed high-impact hiring frameworks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruiting leader with expertise in scaling technical teams.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

Account ManagementApplicant Tracking SystemsBenefits NegotiationCC++CRMCandidate ScreeningCollege RecruitingConsultingContract RecruitmentFriendly PersonalityFull-cycle RecruitingFull-life Cycle RecruitingGlobal Talent AcquisitionHiring

About

🚀 Talent Strategy | Recruiting Leadership | Scaling High-Growth Teams I build and scale high-performing recruiting teams that fuel company growth. From hypergrowth startups to global organizations, I’ve helped companies grow from hundreds to thousands by creating scalable hiring processes, recruiting enablement programs, and data-driven workforce strategies. Leading teams of 25-60 people, I’ve driven record-breaking hiring milestones, including 600+ hires in a year, tripling headcount, and doubling revenue. I specialize in technical recruiting, hiring automation, and interviewer training, ensuring teams attract and assess top talent efficiently. Beyond hiring, I focus on navigating organizational change—managing the aftermath of layoffs, boosting employee morale, and enhancing recruiter productivity. I’ve designed high-impact hiring frameworks, led DEI and talent attraction programs, and partnered with Gayle Laakmann McDowell (author of Cracking the Coding Interview) to refine technical assessments. I also share insights on building scalable hiring in my Medium blog: 📖 How I Built a Scalable Technical Recruiting Function https://shorturl.at/7pdei Let’s connect! 🚀

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Hubspot

Director, Global Technical Recruiting (EMEA & America)

Jul 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote

Joined during a high-growth phase to lead Engineering Recruiting, with a mandate to scale hiring operations to support a projected ~50% expansion. Within months, my scope expanded to include hiring across the entire Product Organization—Engineering, Product, and Design.
Key Accomplishments:
Scaled Talent Acquisition Across Product Functions: Led hiring across all Product functions during a critical growth phase, aligning recruiting strategy with business priorities and evolving org structure.
Achieved Record-Breaking Hiring Milestones: Directed a 60-person global team to deliver 600+ hires in a single year—achieving this milestone for the first time in company history—while upholding high standards on candidate experience and quality.
Built a Future-Ready Sourcing Org: Launched sourcing from the ground up, embedding recruiters with hiring teams to improve precision targeting, speed, and hiring manager accountability.
Enabled Predictable, High-Throughput Hiring: Designed scalable hiring systems that increased funnel efficiency and boosted recruiter output to 3 hires/month for Engineering and 2.5 for Product & Design.
Operationalized Excellence in Assessment: Partnered with Product leaders to develop structured interview formats, role-based rubrics, and DEI-informed evaluation strategies across the funnel.
Elevated Interviewer Quality at Scale: Brought in a leading industry expert to run interviewer training, improving rigor and consistency in technical evaluation.
Enabled Recruiter Success with Data & Tools: Partnered with Recruiting Operations to drive recruiter enablement through training, tooling, and data insights—enhancing execution, collaboration, and speed

Technical RecruitingSourcingTalent AcquisitionRecruitingHiringInterviews+3

6sense

Director, Global Technical Recruiting (America & Asia)

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Leading technical recruiting team of 25+ (leaders, recruiters, sourcers) supporting the build out of engineering, product, and design teams globally in partnership with Co-founders and SVP. It's been a fulfilling journey to be part of three times the people growth from ~425 to over 1200
in a year and more than double growth in revenue.

Technical RecruitingSourcingTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Uber

Engineering Recruiting Leader, North America

Nov 2017 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Palo Alto

Helped scale engineering from ~1000 to over 5000 during my time at Uber. It was an exciting journey to IPO and after! Oh yeah, and loved all the Uber rides!
I held multiple roles at Uber leading recruiting & sourcing teams including leads, sourcers and recruiters. As a recruiting leader, I was responsible to help build Infra org which doubled in size to ~750. I later took upon the challenge to lead newly launched embedded sourcing team supporting Rider, Driver, Maps, Data, NeMo, and Eats to influence culture change and increase team productivity.
Key Accomplishments:
Transformed sourcing team culture to create a thriving environment by providing leadership to improve employee morale, bring stability, and develop fair measurement criteria to promote and performance manage employees
Achieved 100% scoring on 2 of 5 key leadership competencies of building trust with the team and optimizing to build efficiency within technical recruiting
Overachieved Infra hiring targets by 4% in the fiscal year 2018
Launched "top of the funnel" and "silver medalist" programs as 2 key talent attraction strategies after 2019 layoff to meet a difficult to achieve target of 168 hires within 3 months across Uber Engineering
Piloted "high touch candidate" program to provide a unique and customized candidate experience to increase senior level and diversity hires for Uber Engineering
Accomplished launch of multiple initiatives, as part of closing labs charter, which improved offer acceptance rate by 5%

Technical RecruitingSourcingTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Mercedes-benz research & development north america, inc.

Head Engineering Recruiting

Mar 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Led recruiting for software engineering groups including Connected Car and Autonomous Driving. My team hired 80+ engineers across 3 locations and build 2 new locations. 25% travel to build/manage new locations, hiring events, etc.

Technical RecruitingSourcingTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Electronic arts (ea)

Global Talent Acquisition, Tech

May 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs · Redwood Shores, CA

Trusted advisor to C-level and Eng leadership for Data, Commerce & Identity, Security, & EAIT, for Digital Platform organization with org size of ~800 engineers. Matrix reporting to support hubs in Romania, China, India, UK

Devdraft

Advisor

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

Joined the founding team as an advisor to support the product development, customer feedback, and business development.

Microsoft

Staffing Consultant, Tech

Jul 2012 – Mar 2013 · 8 mos · Redmond, WA

Azure Active Directory - Dev, Test and Dev Ops
Recruiting partner to Sr. Directors for Development, Testing and Operations organizations to drive recruitment efforts for Azure Identity and Access Management. Supported recruitment for org size of approx. 3000 Engineers.

Amazon

Sourcing Technical Recruiter - Kindle

Aug 2011 – Jun 2012 · 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Sourcing recruiter POC for VP of Kindle platform team. Passion to build led me to partner with Learning and Development to develop a recruiter onboarding training to map Amazon roles and technologies.

Microsoft

Technical Recruiter

Oct 2005 – Apr 2010 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Redmond/ Bellevue, WA

Kelly Services, University Closing Recruiter Feb 2010 – Apr 2010
Excell Data Corporation, Sr. Technical Recruiter Sept 2007 – Apr 2009
TEKsystems Inc., Sr. Technical Recruiter Oct 2005 – Jul 2007
Recruited Microsoft positions for various teams as a vendor and agency (onsite and offsite)
Responsible for interviewing and closing the nation’s top ranked college graduates for Software Developer Engineer, Software Developer Engineer in Test and Project Manager roles supporting the company’s key technical business groups (acceptance rate of 86%)
Led a project to hire for PMX team at Microsoft; conducted weekly hiring sessions to meet hiring goal of 15 hires in 2 months
Consistently maintained average of 10 hires each month in 2008 and received Vice President Award
Maintained spread of minimum spread of 10K in 2005-2006 and awarded "Rising Star" award