May 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Redwood City, California, United States

• Developed and executed a highly effective hiring plan utilizing Talent Mapping, LinkedIn Recruiter, and ATS system, resulting in a significant reduction in time-to-fill critical roles
• Redesigned the interview process, leading to an impressive increase in the hiring rate for Engineering & Product roles
• Built interview processes from scratch, ensuring alignment with competencies and measurements, and guided teams in providing valuable feedback
• Implemented creative sourcing strategies and diversity and inclusion initiatives to establish a robust candidate pipeline
• Utilized metrics to influence management decisions, sourcing strategies, and hiring processes, resulting in a fully sourced Total Addressable Market (TAM)
• Leveraged reports and metrics from GEM, LinkedIn and Lever to optimize recruitment outcomes, measuring pass-through ratios and time-to-hire of target companies
• Successfully closed offers through effective approval, extension, and negotiation processes
• Mentored and provided ongoing feedback to technical sourcers, elevating their skills and performance
• ATS: Lever
• Skills: Customer Service • Talent Management • Interpersonal Skills • Communication • Relationship Building • Full Life Cycle Recruiting • Candidate Selection

Dec 2020 – May 2021 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Oct 2015 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Qubole is a growing, venture-funded technology company based in Santa Clara, CA bringing cutting-edge Software as a Service products to enterprises at the intersection of big data analytics in the cloud. Our customers use Qubole Data Service as a one-stop platform for processing massive amounts of data through the latest analytical tools such as Hive, Spark, and many others within the AWS, Google Compute, and Microsoft Azure cloud environments.
• Our founders are the creators of Apache Hive and the people who built out Facebook's Data Infrastructure and have pioneered a lot of innovation in the Big Data Ecosystem. We are a venture backed company and our investors are top tier Silicon Vally venture firms - Lightspeed, CRV and Norwest.
• As a first Internal Recruiter for both US and India
• Responsible for all talent acquisition efforts for Software Engineering, Product Management, Technical Support, Solution Architect, Security, G&A related roles.
• Responsibilities include sourcing, screening the top talent based on the job req, engage regularly and create interest, share the roles and responsibilities about the team and projects they would be working on, perks and benefits.
• Partnering closely with hiring managers about the candidates submitted, share market data on a regular basis.
• Customized staffing dashboard for reporting metrics to hiring teams on a weekly basis.
• Coordinated the entire recruiting process and was involved in scaling the organization from 50 employees to over 300.
• Heavy emphasis in sourcing candidates through various professional networking sites.

Jul 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

• At Qubole we’re developing the next generation cloud data platform. With an unparalleled understanding of the cloud and a can do attitude we’re addressing today’s challenges of storing and managing data to create the future: a fast, easy and reliable path to turning Big Data into business insight.

Aug 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Complete ownership of hiring for various technical roles both lateral and campus, right from
• sourcing till on-boarding.
• Recruited candidates across levels only from premier institutes like IIT, IIIT, BITS, NIT etc
• Exploring various conventional and new media sources to build steady pipeline of candidates.
• Striving to bring innovation in talent acquisition and put in dedicated effort to target passive
• candidates.
• Vendor management and data analysis.
• Made recommendations on grade level fitment and associated compensation, extending formal job
• offers, and providing applicants with information on the company.
• Involved in end to end campus and off campus Recruitment & SPOC
• Hired both FTE and Interns as part of campus hiring
• Successfully hired new grads & Interns from Premier institutes like IIT, IIIT, BITS, NIT
• Prepared various back end documents required for Campus Hiring
• Interacting with the Placement Officers for organizing the event
• Regular follow up till applicants are on board.

Sep 2011 – Aug 2012 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2010 – Dec 2010 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Had been a part of hiring for top notch product development companies.

Jun 2009 – May 2010 · 11 mos · Bangalore

• head hunting, cold calling, hiring hard core product development folks for top notch clients