Himanshu Rai

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in tech hiring across multiple domains.
Successfully built teams from scratch in startups.
Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruitment specialist with a strong focus on tech hiring and team building.

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Skills

Core Skills

Tech HiringStakeholder Management

Other Skills

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About

Technology recruiter with a technical background having extensive hiring experience in India & US with 2 start-ups. Previously worked with Scaler (Sequoia Capital funded) as a Talent Acquisition Executive & and contributed to Tech hiring. End-to-end management in technical sourcing, screening, recruiting, stakeholder management, and expertise in recruiting via multiple job boards and social media platforms. I believe in data-driven decision-making and am a solid team player who enjoys partnering and collaborating with key stakeholders to complete work. My area of expertise is 1. Tech Hiring (Backend, Frontend & Full Stack Engineers, ML Engineers, Support & Testing Engineers) 2. Business & Growth Hiring (Product Manager, Sales Manager, Growth Hacker, Founder's Office, Finance & VPs) 3. Campus Hiring (Having a network of 60+ IIT/IIIT/NIT/IIM colleges).

Experience

6 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Branch

Recruitment Specialist - APAC

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Anakin (yc s21)

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Feb 2025 – May 2025 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led hiring initiatives in the B2B SaaS space successfully closing key positions including Director - Sales, Enterprise Sales Manager, BDR Manager, and Account Manager roles.
Executed a focused 4-week sprint to hire Account Executives, resulting in the successful closure of 4 critical positions.
Designed and implemented a screening interview rubric to effectively evaluate and qualify Tier 1 candidates.
Collaborated with 2 recruitment agencies to manage hiring operations for a business role.
Worked on automation for candidate outreach via WhatsApp, improving communication efficiency and response rates.

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Morphle labs inc

Lead - Human Resource

Mar 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Currently building Morphle Labs (YC W20) Tech & Non-Tech team.
Designing and implementing a comprehensive recruitment strategy for junior and mid-level positions. Grew a core team of 13 people to 85+ in 3 years.
Working on setting up interview processes for each role, conducting introductory interviews, shortlisting technical and cultural fit candidates, while improving hiring quality by evaluating interviews.
Working on market mapping, defining salaries for new roles hiring and building strategy to find best candidates.
Extensive experience in effectively utilizing job portals such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Instahyre, Naukri, BigShyft, IIMJobs, Apna, Indeed, Hirist, and various other platforms.
Analysing the recruitment process and using data to improve TAT for future hires.
Managing VPs, Deputy Managers & Production Managers for interview schedules, and sharing weekly/monthly recruitment reports & improving interview experience.
Stakeholder Management: Founder, Sales Head, Head of Software & R&D Head.
Team Handling: Managing 2 people TA team.
Handling end to end Recruitment process for
Tech Hiring for Backend, Full Stack & ML Engineers (Technologies: React, Django & Java) & Support Engineers.
R&D Hiring: Mechanical & Embedded Engineers
Non-Tech Hiring: Sales Manager, Product Engineer, Growth Hacker, CS & QA/RA
US Hiring: SDRs, Business Supports, Marketing Manager (B1/B2 Visa holder)
Campus Hiring: Have a network of over 100 engineering colleges and B-schools, including prestigious institutions like IITs, IIITs, NITs, and IIMs, as well as top-tier (T2) colleges, with direct connections to TPOs.
Initiated a 6-month internship program, offering performance-based PPOs for both tech and non-tech roles which is helping the to find best talents.

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Scaler

Talent Acquisition Executive

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Designed and implemented the recruitment strategy.
2. Responsible for the full cycle of Recruitment, sourcing candidates using various recruitment platforms like Naukri, IIM Jobs, LinkedIn, and In-house Database.
3. Conducted screening interviews and filtered candidates for open positions.
4. Scheduled interviews with Hiring managers, shared feedback & maintained ATS.
5. Focused on Tech roles hiring for Frontend, Backend & Full stack requirement. Hired for IOS & Android roles as well.
6. Built in house Tech team along with a mentor and focused on hiring Software Engineers (Backend & Full Stack Engineers) which helped to launch Scaler Edge product in market.
7. Gained a lot of exposure in Business Hiring and Campus Hiring. Hired 26 BDAs in a span of 3 months during initial Sales hiring.
8. Worked with Stakeholders: Founder, Sales Head & Head of Instructor.
9. Sharing offer letters, helping new joiners with the Onboarding process.
Worked with multile MNCs & Startups to fill Tech requirements for hiring Frontend, Backend & Full Stack Engineers
List of hires for MNCs: Amazon (SDE I & SDE II), Arcesium (SDE I & SDE II), Hotstar (SDE I & SDE II), Paypal (SDE I & SDE II) & Flipkart (SDE I & SDE II),
List of hires for startups: ULA, Whatfix, Bikayi, Braincurry, BharatPe, Stayqrious, Needl.ai, EzCred, & BrainCurry.

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Oyo

Human Resources Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

1. Sourcing through various recruitment tools like Naukri, IIM Jobs & LinkedIn
2. Cold calling & screening prospective candidate's resumes.
3. Conducting screening interviews, scheduling interviews with Hiring Managers.
4. Helping new joiners in the Onboarding process & Induction.
5. Solving the queries of employees

Bhel

Trainee

May 2016 – Jun 2016 · 1 mo · Jhansi Area, India

1. Worked on Locomotive Manufacturing project.
2. 6 weeks training in manufacturing of 700 HP Diesel Loco and Bogie Assembly workshop.
3. Completed project in 6 Weeks with Excellent grade.
4. Worked with a team of 5 Trainees, prepared the project (Manufacturing of 700HP Diesel Loco) & presented the PPT.