Kingsten Jones — Recruiter

Product Recruiter : AI-Driven Talent Strategist @ Atlassian | Engineering & Intelligent Systems Hiring 🚀 Currently leading AI/ML hiring @ Atlassian, I architect and scale high-impact Engineering teams across AI, ML, Search, Security, and Distributed Systems. With 8+ years in niche and leadership hiring, I operate at the intersection of Talent × Technology × Data — partnering with founders and senior leaders to build intelligent, scalable hiring ecosystems. My work spans headcount strategy, hiring bar calibration, funnel diagnostics, and long-term talent architecture. Across roles at Postman, Google, and The Trade Desk etc : - Built 0→1 Applied AI teams aligned to monetization goals. - Reduced evaluation noise by redesigning interview architecture (PTR 15:1 → 5/4:1). - Maintained >95% offer acceptance through compensation calibration and pre-close alignment - Influenced org design and headcount prioritisation across multiple product groups - Developed market intelligence frameworks to guide strategic hiring decisions - While my focus is requisition velocity ; it is also talent density, structural clarity, and sustainable scale. I am skilled with deep expertise in advanced sourcing and competitive talent mapping across niche AI and distributed systems domains — building high-signal passive pipelines through structured research, market decomposition, and precision outreach. Photographer turned Talent Architect 📷 → obsessed with spotting signal in noise and building teams that build the future.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in AI/ML and Engineering talent acquisition.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 7 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Ai / Ml Hiring
Technical Recruiting
Sourcing
Recruiting

Career Highlights

Expert in AI/ML talent acquisition strategies.
Proven track record in building high-impact engineering teams.
Strong focus on data-driven hiring processes.

Work Experience

Atlassian

Senior Tech Recruiter - R&D (8 mos)

Postman

Senior Talent Partner - Core Engineering (1 yr 5 mos)

The Trade Desk

Senior Technical Recruiter - APAC (1 yr 8 mos)

Google

Tech Recruiter II, Horizontals - India (6 mos)

Tech Recruiter I, Cloud - India (11 mos)

ThoughtWorks

Technical Recruiter - Contract (11 mos)

Oracle

Talent Sourcer - Contract (11 mos)

CareerNet Technologies

Recruiter (10 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA at GRD SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (GRDSCIB)

Bsc at PSG College of Arts and Science

Kingsten Jones

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 10 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in AI/ML talent acquisition strategies.
Proven track record in building high-impact engineering teams.
Strong focus on data-driven hiring processes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in AI/ML and Engineering talent acquisition.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Ai / Ml HiringTechnical RecruitingSourcingRecruiting

Other Skills

Hiring Process ArchitectureDigital Transformation in HiringScreeningExecutive SearchHiring Funnel AnalyticsBoolean & X-Ray SearchRecruitment AnalyticsLeadership hiringStrategic HiringHeadcount PlanningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Stakeholder ManagementTeam ManagementEnd to End RecruitingHiring Systems Implementation

About

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 2 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Atlassian

Senior Tech Recruiter - R&D

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Hiring for AI, Search, and Security roles — responsible for designing and scaling hiring systems across high-ambiguity engineering domains.
Own hiring strategy across:
> Central AI (Rovo, Teamwork Graph)
> Search Infrastructure
> Machine Learning
> ML Security / Product Security
> SRE (Shield)
> DevOps & Platform Engineering
Strategic Impact :
Partner with Engineering Leaders on Hiring plan, role scoping, and hiring prioritisation for AI-native product initiatives.
Designed structured evaluation frameworks for ML and Security hiring to increase signal clarity and reduce decision variance.
Lead interviewer calibration and governance mechanisms to strengthen hiring bar consistency across distributed teams.
Built AI-assisted funnel diagnostics to identify decline patterns, compensation gaps, and false-negative risks.
Developed sourcing intelligence systems for competitive AI talent markets, improving depth in passive pipelines.
Integrate automation and internal data signals into recruiting workflows to enable leadership-level decision visibility.
Role Scope : Increasing talent density, reducing evaluation noise, and aligning hiring decisions with long-term product architecture.

Hiring Process ArchitectureDigital Transformation in HiringSourcingScreeningExecutive SearchHiring Funnel Analytics+21

Postman

Senior Talent Partner - Core Engineering

Mar 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led hiring strategy across Core Product, Platform, and Applied AI during critical scale phase.
Owned 0→1 and growth-stage hiring across :
> Postbot AI (Founding AI team)
> Performance Testing (0→GA 2025)
> API Client
> Workspaces & Collections
> IAM & Monetization
Delivered 30+ hires across Senior EM → Principal IC levels while maintaining TAT <40 days.
Strategic Impact
Partnered directly with Co-founder and Product leadership to define AI hiring roadmap aligned to monetization goals.
Built and scaled founding Applied AI team supporting $2M+ revenue trajectory.
Influenced org design decisions across 3 product groups during scale expansion.
Reduced PTR from 15:1 → 8:1 by redesigning evaluation architecture and implementing structured rubrics.
Maintained >95% offer acceptance and >90% join rate through pre-close alignment and compensation calibration.
Owned market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, and decline trend analysis to inform headcount tradeoffs.
Defined hiring bar philosophy for Applied AI and Performance Testing orgs.
Role Scope : Building high-signal engineering teams while improving structural efficiency in hiring systems.

Hiring Process ArchitectureDigital Transformation in HiringSourcingScreeningExecutive SearchHiring Funnel Analytics+19

The trade desk

Senior Technical Recruiter - APAC

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Founding recruiter, Built the India Engineering Hub!
Scaled teams across India (95%), Singapore, and Australia — hiring for Head of Product Design, Senior/Principal Engineers, and full-stack engineering roles (SE1 → Principal), including onboarding the first intern in India.
Led and upskilled an RPO/Sourcing team of 4, driving productivity in submissions, offer generation, and funnel quality while maintaining ~70% source-to-offer conversion.
Designed and refined data-driven, candidate-centric hiring processes — implementing interviewer calibration, structured documentation, and unified APAC hiring frameworks.
Provided market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, and talent landscape insights to leadership to inform headcount and regional hiring strategies.
Maintained 35–45% diversity representation in active pipelines through advanced sourcing and inclusive hiring strategies.
Owned end-to-end recruitment across APAC, closing critical leadership and UX roles while partnering cross-functionally with HR, Compensation, and regional stakeholders.

Hiring Process ArchitectureDigital Transformation in HiringSourcingScreeningExecutive SearchHiring Funnel Analytics+18

Google

2 roles

Tech Recruiter II, Horizontals - India

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos

Got promoted in a year.
Achieved 150% targets in Q3, Q4 and 200% in Q1 2022.
Sourced a hired close to 60+ engineers during my time.
Owner of few global projects :
Rabbit hole
Decline and Xoogler
Decline process modification
Talent Mapping
Ghire sourcing learning module

Hiring Process ArchitectureSourcingScreeningHiring Funnel AnalyticsBoolean & X-Ray SearchRecruiting+12

Tech Recruiter I, Cloud - India

Feb 2021 – Jan 2022 · 11 mos

Hiring Software Engineers for various teams inside Google, Bangalore & Hyderabad.
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day.
Experience in Architecting Large Scale Distributed Systems from Scratch.
Tech Leadership & Dealing with Ambiguity.
Love for Coding, Complex Algorithms and Problem Solving.

SourcingScreeningHiring Funnel AnalyticsBoolean & X-Ray SearchRecruitingRecruitment Analytics+7

Thoughtworks

Technical Recruiter - Contract

Mar 2020 – Feb 2021 · 11 mos · Tamil Nadu, India

We’re a global software consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We connect strategy and execution, helping our clients to strengthen their core technology, scale with flexibility and create seamless digital experiences. From our extensive experience in developing software, we pioneered open-source products that support development teams to create better software. We partner with our clients to continuously evolve their tech and enable an adaptive mindset to meet their business goals.
As a ThoughtWorker, you are free to seek out the most ambitious challenges. Free to change career paths. Free to use technology as a tool for social change. Free to be yourself.
Was Hiring for:
Application developers
Business analysts (BA)
Quality Analyst (QA)
DE/DS (Data engineer / Data science)
XD – User Experience designer
Feel free to reach out.!