Pragya Gupta

Head of Talent

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India7 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building diverse and inclusive teams.
  • Proven track record in leadership hiring.
  • Strong background in talent acquisition strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in AI and Engineering sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionLeadership HiringHr Management

Other Skills

HR Start-upEmployee EngagementVendor ManagementOnboardingHR OperationsHR ReportsOnboarding and OffBoardingProcess ImplementationHR Software OnboardingOrganising EventsTeamworkStart-up LeadershipTeam BuildingRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

About

I thrive on exploring creative ideas, launching new initiatives, and fostering diversity and inclusivity through results-driven processes. I'm a constant well of inspiration, always eager to try something new and bring fresh perspectives to every project.

Experience

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos

  • Career Break (6 Months)
  • Focused on learning new skills, personal development, and completing long-standing bucket list experiences. Began this phase with surfing and experiential learning through travel.

Greylabs ai

Talent Acquisition Lead

Apr 2025Nov 2025 · 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Founding Talent Partner | Building team from 0 → 1
HR Start-upTalent Acquisition

Everestengineering

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jan 2021Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leadership Hiring
  • Serve as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Talent Acquisition in building the core technical team at Everest.
  • Lead technical leadership and campus hiring efforts for Everest India and Malaysia.
  • Develop and implement initiatives and strategies to scale Everest's growth.
  • Directly source candidates via social media platforms and job portals such as Cutshort, Instahyre, Hirest, Hirect, and AngelList.
  • Focus on Diversity Hiring and Region Inclusive Hiring to cater to various regions of India.
  • Develop and execute sourcing strategies to build and manage a strong pipeline of candidates for key leadership positions.
  • Lead and drive recruitment review meetings with the CTO.
  • Conduct periodic talent mapping for senior-level positions in India and Malaysia.
  • Formulate and implement talent acquisition strategies based on business forecasts and manpower planning in partnership with business/staffing leaders.
  • Handle candidate negotiations on Compensation & Benefits, resulting in a decline rate reduction from 50% to 7-8%.
  • Generate and issue offer letters, ensuring timely candidate onboarding and engagement.
  • Campus Hiring:
  • Design and implement creative processes for campus hiring initiatives.
  • Coordinate and facilitate on-campus recruiting events.
  • Collaborate with the CTO to define the best compensation strategies for interns and freshers.
  • Skills: Leadership Hiring · Employee Engagement · Vendor Management · Onboarding · HR Operations · HR Reports · HR Management
Leadership HiringEmployee EngagementVendor ManagementOnboardingHR OperationsHR Reports+2

Kaleidofin

Human Resources Business Partner

Mar 2020Jan 2021 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Working as SPOC TA for building up core technical team and leadership hiring at Kaleidofin.
  • Designed and implemented the technical recruitment procedure from the scratch.
  • Develop sourcing strategies, understand position requirements, set expectation, and maintain formal communications throughout
  • the process based on the discussion with CTO.
  • Sourcing profiles through different Job Portals, Referrals, Internal database, LinkedIn, Job postings, free job portals.
  • Negotiation with the candidates on Compensation & Benefits. Generation and issue of Offer letters and engaging with offered
  • candidates to ensure timely joining.
  • Managing and driving Recruitment weekly review meeting with CTO.
  • Trained and developed all vendors to ensure any requirements given are fulfilled with the best conversion ratios
  • Responsible for Requirement and Resource allocation
  • Expertise in Hiring – Backend Developers, Android Developers, Data Engineering, SDET, Manual Testing, Product and Graphic Design,
  • Frontend Engineer, Tech Architects, Production Support, SRE/Devops.
  • Skills: Leadership Hiring · Employee Engagement · Vendor Management · Onboarding and OffBoarding· HR Operations · HR Reports · HR Management · Process Implementation · HR Software Onboarding · Organising Events
Leadership HiringEmployee EngagementVendor ManagementOnboarding and OffBoardingHR OperationsHR Reports+5

Freshworks

Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

Oct 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • End to End technical recruitment in sourcing, Phone Screening, scheduling interview's within TAT.
  • Strategizing Talent Acquisition plan by understand the upcoming business Expansion
  • Regular interaction with Hiring Managers to have clarity on current requirements until it's closed.
  • Co-ordination with panel's to complete their hiring process.
  • Exercised in Salary Negotiation (as per company guidelines) and interact with offer made candidates on a daily / weekly basis
  • to join us.
  • Account Mining- Building good professional relationship with clients, mining more requirements and getting exclusives
  • Team Management
  • Trained and developed all team members so as to ensure any requirements given by clients are fulfilled with the best conversion
  • ratios
  • Responsible for Requirement and Resource allocation
TeamworkTalent Acquisition

Education

Amity University

Jan 2012Jan 2013

Lucknow University, Lucknow

Bachelor of Commerce - BCom

Jan 2009Jan 2012

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