Tushar Katangale

Head of Talent

Pune, Maharashtra, India13 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven expertise in end-to-end talent acquisition strategy.
Achieved over 70% offer acceptance rate in recruiting.
Scaled headcount from 27 to 200+ in two years.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in Technology and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent ManagementStakeholder ManagementTalent StrategyTechnology HiringTalent AcquisitionEmployer BrandingTeam ManagementTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

Talent SourcingTalent AnalyticsLeadership hiringCandidate EngagementSourcingCampus recruitingStrategic SourcingHead huntingLinuxJavaCloud ComputingRPOC++InterviewsC

About

Global Talent Acquisition Leader with 10+ years of experience in technical recruiting, campus hiring, leadership hiring, and building high-performing recruitment teams. Proven expertise in end-to-end talent acquisition strategy, stakeholder management, and scalable hiring solutions for fast-growing organizations. Specialized in recruiting product engineers, software engineers, product managers, and business intelligence professionals. Strong domain experience across healthtech, automotive technology, e-commerce, and fintech, with a track record of designing data-driven, award-winning recruitment strategies that deliver top talent and business impact.

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Sibros

2 roles

Talent Manager - IND, US & EU

Promoted

Mar 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Team ManagementStakeholder ManagementTalent SourcingTalent Management

Senior Talent Partner

May 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Collaborate with business leaders in Cloud Engineering, Firmware Engineering, and Product Delivery Management to forecast and facilitate headcount growth.
Design & implement recruiting strategies for lateral and leadership hires, achieving an offer acceptance rate of over 70%.
Ensure adherence to key recruiting metrics- cost-per-hire, diversity hire and time-to-hire.
Reduced time-to-hire by 50% for critical roles.
Spearheaded key Learning & Development initiatives for the team.

Talent StrategyTechnology HiringTalent AnalyticsLeadership hiringEmployer BrandingCandidate Engagement

Freelance

Freelance Recruiter

Oct 2022 – May 2023 · 7 mos

Worked for clients in the healthcare and ecommerce domain.
Single handedly closed more than 17 critical roles in the span of 6 months in the product engineering space.
Worked with 2 healthcare clients in the 340B healthcare solution space. During this pursuit, I got great understanding of the 340B healthcare landscape in the US.
Helped my clients in hiring for positions such as Senior Fullstack Engineers, Staff Software Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, Product Managers etc.

Medly

2 roles

Talent Acquisition Manager

Aug 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Scaled the Pune office headcount from 27 to 200+ in 2 years with a capacity of 4 recruiters.
Ramped up Product Engineering, Product Management, Product Design, Business Intelligence and Salesforce teams.
Individually contributed to fill senior management and leadership roles.
Led employer branding by creating meetup group to facilitate hackathons, webinars, tech talks for attracting passive talent pool.
Drove and oversaw campus recruiting and campus engagement.
Coached and mentored team members on recruiting and sourcing.
Partnered with the engineerig and product leadership to develop and implement recruiting strategies.
Increased gender diversity offer pipeline YoY by 20%.

SourcingStakeholder ManagementTeam ManagementCampus recruitingTalent StrategyTalent Analytics+5

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jul 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Complete ownership of the Talent Acquisition function.
Closely collaborate and manage stakeholders from Product Engineering, Product Management, Product Design and Business Intelligence verticals.
Lead process improvement to ensure that the interview process is an enriching experience for candidates.
Sourcing candidates from channels viz. referrals, job board, LinkedIn Recruiter, candidate referrals and measuring the success of source mix on a quarterly basis.

SourcingTechnical Recruiting

Thoughtworks

Recruitment Specialist

May 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Full cycle recruiting on roles such as UI Developers, Application Developers.
Adept at executing boolean search strings on google search, job boards.
Writing creative messages and emails to convert passive candidates to prospects.
Candidate farming and building contact- base for future hiring needs.
Stakeholder management by publishing weekly and fortnightly reports on position heatmaps and pipelines.
Suggesting process improvement ideas for smooth functioning of the recruiting process.

Technical RecruitingStrategic Sourcing

Innoplexus

Manager- Talent Acquisition

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Was responsible to execute leadership functional and technical assignments across diverse skillsets such as Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Frontend Lead, Technical Managers, Product Designers.
Closely collaborating with stakeholders and driving recruiting strategy for the fulfillment of critical senior and middle management roles.
Managing a team of 2 recruiters.
Publishing weekly, fortnightly and monthly hiring status reports.