Sep 2024 – Feb 2025 · 5 mos

Jan 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Key Responsibilities:
• Managed end to end “Product Technology Engineering” Recruitment program for Western Digital, India site. (Data Storage Product Group - Removable Product Group (RPG), ASIC Group, Client SSD (CSS), Enterprise SSD’s, iNAND Group, Firmware Group (SD/ SSD/ USB/ uSD/ NAND/ micro SD/ UFS/ eMMC/ Flash/ Memory etc.), Software Tools Group and Hardware Group, HDD, CTO Research.)
• Expertise in building new Engineering teams/ Groups from scratch. (iNAND, eSSD & CSS FW & Validation and HW, HDD FW, HW & Validation, Memory Systems Design, CTO Research, RPG Services etc..)
• Partnering with Business and Top Institutes for hiring strategy, pre & post hiring activities and to be the Best Employer of Choice among all leading educational institutions.
• Working closely with business leaders to ensure that the staffing organization is able to support business growth.
• Driving the Diversity & Talent strategy programs and aligning to business goals and global programs of the organization.
• Ensured optimum utilization of hiring mix through referrals / portals / social networking / partners / Univ. relations. Own & deliver on the “Cost per Hire” metric.
• Playing a pivotal role in crafting and refining the processes for Lateral, Leadership, and Campus hiring One of the COE leads of the belonging (DEI) pillar of India recruiting.
• Presented a study on the current scenario in the semiconductor industry in terms of the resources availability across different skills, the talent market, resource channels and ongoing trends in the semiconductor & Embedded industry.

Apr 2016 – May 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Lead recruiter, driving full life-cycle recruiting and candidate experience initiatives for AMD across Business roles in India and other international regions.
• Handling cross functional Business Units in terms of Staffing for India and across locations.
• Handling India -University Relations, Campus placements
• Establishing trusted business partnerships with hiring managers to execute profile requirements, recruiting strategy, interview management & status updates
• Mentor 2-3 team members to drive the overall recruitment at AMD
• Possess great knowledge in Semiconductor, mobile and ad network hiring areas, serving as an advisor to hiring mangers on candidate & competitive industry movement
• Maintain accurate Data, produce weekly metrics, analytics, dashboard, reporting highlighting wins and concerns
• Breathe teamwork and expand beyond sole recruiting into the larger Talent Acquisition team to support scheduling, travel & logistics, employer branding and new hire on-boarding
• Skills working on: Physical Design, RTL Design, Verification (Core & SOC) , Analog and Circuit Design,DFT (Core & SOC), Embedded (C,Linux, BIOS,UEFI),Compiler, Performance Modeling, Layout, Application Engineering...

Jun 2015 – Apr 2016 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Supported CADENCE IPG and R&D
• From a lateral hiring perspective, I supported Multi location business units across Bangalore and Noida and managing end to end staffing requirements for the ASIC / VLSI and Software teams.
• Extensively hired folks in areas such as:
• Micro Architecture, RTL Design, System Level Architecture.
• Memory Systems Architecture / Computer Architecture Group
• Low Power Architecture / IO Architecture team.
• ASIC Physical Design (Timing Closure / STA/ Synthesis) / Physical Design Group
• DFT / ATPG (Bangalore / Noida)
• From a University Relations role I was responsible for Intern Hiring from premier engineering institutes for the ASIC Design.
• Talent Mapping of similar profiles across various organizations operating in similar domain / technology.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Bangalore