Ankur Agrawal — Head of Talent

If your talent function is a cost center, I'll turn it into a competitive advantage. I've spent 18 years in talent acquisition. Which means I've heard "we need someone yesterday" approximately 4,000 times. I've built hiring functions, scaled them across continents, and led teams through growth phases, reorgs, and the occasional complete chaos. I've worked with businesses that had a plan and businesses that thought they had a plan. Both are interesting in their own way. What I've learned is that great recruitment is 20% process and 80% understanding what a business actually needs which is rarely what the job description says. At the end of the day this is a people business. The best hire I ever made wasn't the most qualified person in the room. It was the right person for that team, that moment, that culture. Getting that right takes more than a good process. It takes genuine curiosity about people. I've seen talent functions that work beautifully and ones that are quietly breaking everything. I know how to fix it and I know how to build something that doesn't break in the first place. And I've sat in enough leadership meetings to know that the best talent strategies are the ones nobody notices because everything just works. If you're building something serious and need someone who's seen enough to know what good looks like — I'm always up for a conversation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader with expertise in building and scaling HR functions in a corporate environment.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 17 yrs 11 mos