Ankita Yajnik

Technical Recruiter

Pune, Maharashtra, India10 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building high-performing tech teams from scratch.
  • Proven track record in diversity and inclusion hiring.
  • Strong analytical skills driving data-driven recruitment strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech recruitment specialist with a strong focus on diversity and data-driven hiring strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTeam ManagementTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

Agentic AutomationTeam LeadershipMarket IntelligenceDiversity and InclusionOrganizational DesignJob ArchitectureDiversity HiringSourcing StrategiesProcess OptimizationData AnalysisLinkedIn RecruiterAnalytical SkillsHadoopMapReduceApache Pig

About

🚀 I help companies build their most important teams — from the ground up. With ~9 years of experience spanning corporate IT and talent acquisition, I bring a rare combination of technical fluency and human-centred recruiting. I've spent the last several years as a Senior Sepcialist, Recruiter at Mastercard (Pune) and before that at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, hiring for some of the most competitive roles in tech — Product Management, AI/ML, Software Engineering, Cloud, Networking, and Digital Transformation. What I do best: ▸ Building Business Units from scratch — org design, job architecture & foundational hiring ▸ Presenting hiring strategy & market intelligence to CTOs and senior leadership ▸ Leading & mentoring recruitment teams to deliver quality at speed ▸ Niche IT hiring — AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Full Stack, Platform & NLP roles ▸ Driving D&I pipelines and running targeted diversity hiring drives ▸ Reducing TAT & CPH through data-driven sourcing and Power BI dashboards I've built teams across Pune, Bangalore & Gurgaon, and collaborated with TA leaders in the USA, Europe and Singapore. I care deeply about candidate experience, market intelligence, and hiring strategies that actually move the business forward.

Experience

10 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs
Current Experience

Mastercard

2 roles

Senior Specialist Technical Recruiter - South Asia

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · India

  • Strategic Leadership & BU Scaling
  • 1. Led end-to-end talent acquisition for Product Management, AI/ML, and Software Engineering, driving hiring for critical digital transformation and payments innovation mandates.
  • 2. Built the Product & AI Business Unit from scratch: Defined organizational structures, identified skill gaps, and created job architectures to establish a high-performing BU.
  • 3. Strategic Partner: Collaborated with SVPs, VPs, and Directors to define hiring roadmaps and deliver on aggressive headcount targets for cutting-edge fintech products.
  • Niche Technical Sourcing & Execution
  • 1. Specialized Sourcing: Spearheaded hiring for niche roles in Machine Learning, NLP, Agentic AI, Data Science, and Platform Engineering using advanced Boolean and X-ray search.
  • 2. Team Management: Led and coached a recruitment team, implementing workflow governance to ensure quality, speed, and consistency across all open mandates.
  • 3. Vendor & Process Optimization: Managed agency partnerships and optimized sourcing strategies to drive measurable reductions in TAT and Cost-per-Hire (CPH).
  • Data-Driven Insights & Operations
  • 1. Market Intelligence: Designed talent landscape reports and delivered monthly MIS dashboards via Power BI, translating pipeline health into executive-ready narratives for leadership.
  • 2. D&I Champion: Integrated diversity and inclusion into sourcing strategies, achieving measurable improvements in representation across technical functions.
  • 3. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with HRBPs, C&B, and Employer Branding to design competitive offer packages and ensure a seamless candidate experience.
Agentic AutomationTeam LeadershipTechnical RecruitingMarket IntelligenceDiversity and InclusionTeam Management

Specialist Technical Recruiter - South Asia

May 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · India

Hewlett packard enterprise

Technical Enterprise Recruiter

Mar 2019 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · India

  • Involved in end-to-end complete life cycle of recruitment process such as candidate sourcing, interviewing candidates, salary negotiation, creating offer letters, follow-ups and closing.
  • Responsible for end-to-end hiring for build first level technology culture driven teams from scratch in the Engineering Centre (Bangalore, Gurgaon) , UIDAI and RGI project (Gurgaon, Bangalore), as well as the Research & Innovation lab (Bangalore).
  • I have managed mandates across all levels of hiring in the sales / GTM function, Global Operations and the services group at HPE branded as PointNext. I have also supported functional hiring in Finance, Marketing and IT.
  • Have been playing a major role in process optimization of various BUs like Global operations and GTM/Sales. Increased the diversity % of GBO business from 14% to 44%. Have reduced the TTOA time from 2 months to 40 Days.
  • Develop and implement TA plans, refine hiring forecasting capabilities, and establish and report on key recruiting metrics to measure effectiveness and provide data-driven, actionable insights.
  • Partnering with Strategic sourcing Team to provide the best talents for mid-level to senior level & Executive positions across PAN India.
  • Researching on requirement and creating a market intelligence report for senior, niche and super-niche skills hiring in strategic and IT business planning.
  • Manage and maintain diversity strategy to attract a diverse workforce to the company by sourcing talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles.
  • SME for internal ATS (KFR) and leading team globally on the same. Mentoring new joiner for the same.
  • MIS Management - Preparing MIS Trackers & dashboards to the BU Heads on weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis on the hiring progress. Creating Reports using virtualization tools like Power BI.

Hdfc bank limited

Digital Marketing Intern

Feb 2018 – May 2018 · 3 mos · India

  • Establishing a strong digital footprint.
  • Transforming customers from manual operations to digitization by understanding all the products offered by the organization.
  • Opening of savings and salary account digitally

Ntt data americas

2 roles

Mainframe Developer

Mar 2014 – Mar 2017 · 3 yrs

  • Performed re-conversion and certification testing of academic, research, medical, and cultural institutions which use varying file formats.
  • Development/unit testing of the system that accepts various remittances files formats such as OPS, SPARK, GAP, etc.
  • Created test plans, perform certification testing, gather test results, documentation follow required SDLC standards and providing support for a period of one month.
  • Peer reviewing of the templates, reports developed by rest of the team.
  • Worked on developing and enhancing new codes to improve system performance as well as meet business requirements.
  • Taken care of PROD-Support activities like critical job monitoring, issue analysis and incident management.
  • Generated critical financial reports like SLA, EFT on daily/weekly basis.
  • Providing time bound and quality deliverables maintaining project defined quality check standards.

Software Engineer Trainee

Nov 2013 – Mar 2014 · 4 mos

  • I got trained in Mainframe domain. It includes COBOL, SQL, DB2, CICS, JCL.

Allegis group

Sourcing Specialist

Aug 2013 – Nov 2013 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Recruitment of US candidate for aeronautical engineering for US companies

Education

ICFAI Business School, Pune Official

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Marketing and Operations

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

S.J.C. Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

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