Kristal Sellamuttu

Technical Recruiter

United States12 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven ability to scale teams in hyper-growth phases.
  • Maintained high offer acceptance rates across multiple roles.
  • Passionate about diversity in hiring practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Technical Recruiter with a strong emphasis on diversity and process improvement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingFull-cycle RecruitingCandidate EngagementProcess ImprovementDiversity RecruitingRecruitingStaffing Operations

Other Skills

Stakeholder ManagementEmployer BrandingOffer NegotiationHiring ReportsDocumentationTalent AcquisitionTrainingInterview Process ImprovementEvent SponsorshipDiversity InitiativesInternet RecruitingScreeningSourcingBoolean SearchingScreening Resumes

About

A trusted Talent Partner with a strong ability to manage the full-cycle recruiting process and deliver high-quality hiring results. Proven ability to scale teams in hyper-growth phase. Broad experience in recruiting for a wide range of roles across the organization. A self-starter and creative thinker who thrives in a high-performance environment. A successful team player who is passionate about making a lasting impact by building strong and meaningful relationships. • Technical Recruiting • Full-Cycle Recruiting • Strategic Sourcing • Diversity Recruiting • Stakeholder Management • Candidate Engagement • Offer Negotiation • Process Improvement • Employer Branding

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Databricks

Staff Technical Recruiter

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • With origins in academia and the open source community, Databricks was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. As the world’s first and only lakehouse platform in the cloud, Databricks combines the best of data warehouses and data lakes to offer an open and unified platform for data and AI.
Technical RecruitingFull-Cycle RecruitingStakeholder ManagementEmployer Branding

Confluent

Lead Technical Recruiter

Nov 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Recruited Software Engineers (Level 3-Level 5) and Managers/Senior Managers for Kafka Platform & Infrastructure and Confluent Cloud Backend teams
  • A key contributor to the engineering organization’s growth by meeting hiring goals and maintaining >70% offer acceptance rate
  • Did an analysis of the technical interview rejections and spearheaded the calibration sessions with the interviewers
  • Created Individual and Team Weekly Hiring Reports, Hiring Manager / Sell Call Prep Document, RSU Exception Justification Template for Hiring Managers, Candidate Interview Prep Document,, Sourcing Guides for Recruiters, Competitors’ Performance Cycle & Bonus Payout Tracker, Job Description Tracker, WIN Candidate Rejection Tracker, and Social Cards
Technical RecruitingCandidate EngagementOffer NegotiationProcess Improvement

Rubrik, inc.

Senior Talent Partner - Engineering, Product, & Customer Support

Jul 2017Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Palo Alto, CA

  • Promoted twice - April 2020 & April 2019
  • A key contributor to the engineering organization’s growth over the last 2+ years by consistently meeting monthly & quarterly hiring goals (15 hires in Q2 ‘19, top producer in 2019 with a total of 43 hires)
  • Recruits Software Engineers (Level 5-Level 9), Managers/Senior Managers, and Directors for our Backend, Developer Platform, SDET, Product Infrastructure, Security, and Program Management teams
  • Focuses on hiring gender diversity talent for multiple engineering teams, which resulted to 22% gender diversity hires in 2019
  • Maintains 60%-70% offer acceptance rate by managing candidate expectations throughout the process
  • Oversees Rubrik's 2020 Summer Internship Program
  • Rolled out ‘Interview Training 101’ across the entire engineering organization
  • Partnered with the engineering leadership team in Palo Alto and Bangalore to reevaluate and improve technical interview process and tools
  • Created Interviewer Matrix, Hiring Manager Onboarding Deck, In-Take Meeting Form, Offer Process Flow, & Competitive Intelligence Site; and participated in ATS sandbox testing & Talent Community initiatives
  • Co-authored Rubrik's Working Remote Playbook during the pandemic
  • Spearheaded Rubrik’s sponsorship and participation at Women Transforming Technology (WT2) in April 2019; Member of 2020 WT2's Emerging Leadership Committee
Technical RecruitingDiversity RecruitingTalent AcquisitionEmployer Branding

Mz (acquired by applovin)

Senior Recruiter

May 2014Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Palo Alto, CA

  • Technical Recruiter (through TargetCW) | May 2014 - November 2014
  • A key contributor to the company’s growth from 150+ to 1200+ employees over the last 3 years by consistently delivering 12-15 hires per quarter (Top Producer in 2015 with a total of 55 hires)
  • Utilized LinkedIn and Google, niche job sites, professional network, email lists, etc. for a more targeted search
  • Maintained >95% offer acceptance rate by managing candidate expectations throughout the process
  • Co-managed implementation of Candidate Survey and new Applicant Tracking System (Lever)
  • Spearheaded MZ's first recruiting event in Las Vegas that helped build the foundation of the company’s 24/7 customer service operations team
Technical RecruitingCandidate EngagementProcess Improvement

Flixster (through randstad managed services)

Recruiter

Jul 2013May 2014 · 10 mos · San Francisco, CA

  • Proved the success of an in-house recruiting model by eliminating agency placement cost
  • Filled critical positions in Software Quality Assurance, Technical Operations, Product Management, and
  • Marketing (100% offer acceptance rate)
  • Hired a TV Coverage Editor for Rotten Tomatoes in Los Angeles, and helped the VP of Recruitment at Warner Bros. in sourcing for Director of Finance candidates
RecruitingCandidate EngagementProcess Improvement

Netpolarity

2 roles

Staffing Operations Manager

Promoted

Jan 2013Jul 2013 · 6 mos

  • Produced a high-performing offshore recruiting team (3 hires per recruiter per month) within 3 months
  • Exceeded hiring expectations with >3 hires per month, which generated $2.5M+ revenue for the company
  • 1st recruiter who received tier 1 guaranteed compensation
  • Top producer for November 2011 and July 2012, and 2nd quarter of 2012
Staffing OperationsRecruiting

Technical Recruiter

Nov 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Education

UC Berkeley Extension

Certificate Program in Human Resource Management

Jan 2018Present

College of the Holy Spirit - Mendiola

Bachelor of Arts (BA) — Human Resources Development

Jan 2003Present

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