Apr 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

• Lead Talent Acquisition Team: Managing a team of senior recruiters, supporting a workforce of over 1,030 plus employees.
• Strategic Talent Advisor: Provided talent market analytics to C-level leaders, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Utilized analytics to meet hiring needs and improve decision-making processes.
• Team Coaching: Aligned and coached the team to achieve annual Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Headcount Growth: Hired 1035 Resources last FY, increased DEI Metrics by 2%, Decreased ageing by 40%.
• Vendor Management: Built a live tracking dashboard for vendor performance and costs, reducing dependency on underperforming vendors.
• TAT: Reduced time-to-fill with a more agile recruitment process
• Executive Hiring: Successfully hired key leadership positions, including Vice Presidents of Technology, Compliance, Senior Director of Engineering.
• TA Dashboards: Developed insightful talent acquisition dashboards to support data-driven recruiting decisions.
• ATS Implementation: Led the implementation and adoption of an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), including training for managers and recruiters.
• University Recruiting: Implemented strategies for university recruitment and internship hiring initiatives.
• Weekly Hiring Reviews: Conducted regular hiring reviews with the C-level leaders of all business units.

Apr 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs

• Lead the Talent Acquisition function for India & APAC Region. I partner closely with the global talent team optimize the various talent processes. Responsible for strategic B2B SaaS hiring for tech & non tech domain.
• Scaled the India Development Centre from a 350-employee to 1000+ Employees with an average 15% attrition backfills.
• Aligned and coached the team of senior recruiters to achieve annual Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Developing inclusive recruiting strategy to match rapidly growing and changing business needs.
• Employer branding activities to increase brand reach, both internally and externally.
• Continuously benchmarked with external fast paced SaaS and product companies to educate the leadership, team and fellow leaders on talent hiring strategies, metrics, service delivery model and processes.
• Responsible for drawing effective strategies to consistently achieve significant improvement in hiring KPIs – Time to hire, Cost per hire, & Sourcing Mix.
• Implement a global employee referral policy and develop interviewer and hiring manager training programs.
• Ramped up the hiring for the product, engineering, automation, and infrastructure teams, focusing on process optimization.
• Experience in hiring for Software Engineers, SDET, QA, Cloud Infrastructure, AI/ML Engineers, Data scientist, Product owners, Project managers, DevOps roles, Full Stack developers, Frontend, Backend, Niche roles. Non-tech roles such as AP, AR, P2P, Financial advisor, BD, operations head, TA specialists, Comp and Benefit, Legal, Data analyst.
• Managed a variety of Talent Acquisition projects and tasks across functional teams using the project management platform Asana, Confluence and Atlassian.
• Extensive experience with ATS systems including Greenhouse, CRM platforms like Zoho, and HCM software such as Workday and GEM.

Jun 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Orchestrated Talent Acquisition for major Business Units – Software Engineering, Automation, ServiceNow, Business Intelligence, SAP, global technical support, Leadership hiring for tech and non-tech positions.
• Prepared, monitored, and controlled workforce plans and budgets based on business forecasts.
• Built a rigorous Direct Search /Sourcing Strategy and function, enhancing candidate pipeline, while increasing direct sourcing capability at a rate from 15% to 38% and an Employee Referral hiring rate from 14% to 24% in less than 15month.
• Managed the complete recruitment life cycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources.
• Ensured organizational hiring needs are met within planned TAT, Cost and Quality.
• Developed weekly recruitment activity reports for management and participate in weekly/monthly recruitment calls with global stake holders and leadership teams (India, Germany, Hungary, Poland).
• Conducted campus hiring drives at premium Engineering Colleges.
• Build and develop a strong sustainable relationship with Vendors & RPO teams to monitor and drive vendor performance. Provide inputs on market data for compensation benchmarking, workforce projection.

Apr 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Oversee full lifecycle recruitment for Engineering roles, Captive hiring at all levels in the organization, including high volume recruiting, niche skill hiring for India & USA.
• Implemented ATS that empowered Hiring Managers to manage their hiring, focused on the quality of candidates, managed time to hire and cost per hire.
• Handled IT/Non-IT recruitment of diverse skill sets like – SOC Engineer, Threat Researcher, Full Stack developer,
• Performance Tester, C++ Developer, PHP Developer, Senior Engineering Manager, QA managers, Data Scientist, backend/frontend developers, Architects, Salesforce, QA, Director Finance, CXO hiring, Legal.

Aug 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Ramped up hiring from scratch for Product Engineering, Technical Support, NOC, NICE Actimize, NICE CXone as an Individual Contributor Recruiter. Hired VP Engineering, Director Technical Support, HRBP’s.
• Possess full life cycle recruiting experience including sourcing, interacting with internal Business Heads.
• Oversaw the audit of recruitment compliance and processes.
• Implemented employer branding initiatives through various channels such as social media, referral programs, hackathons, and campus hiring.

Jan 2012 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• End to End Recruitment
• Achieved 90% success rate in fulfilling open positions.
• Handled onboarding and induction, exit processes, vendor management, and processed invoices.
• Achieved 90% success rate in fulfilling open positions.
• Leave and attendance management through HRIS.
• Conduct reference checks & document verification on possible candidates
• Issuing offer letter, appointment letter.
• Attendance monitoring

May 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune

• Handled end to end recruitment process.
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems
• Communicate with candidates throughout the hiring process. • Maintain daily and weekly stake holder hiring reports.

Dec 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• • Managed providing high-touch recruitment services to candidates, ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.