Brijendra Rao

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12 years of experience in technology hiring.
  • Successfully scaled teams from 9 to over 190 engineers.
  • Implemented innovative hiring frameworks and strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Lead with expertise in scaling engineering teams in the SaaS industry.

Contact

braomj@atlassian.comLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Other Skills

Talent ManagementGlobal Talent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementHiringCapacity PlanningSourcingProject ManagementInterview Framework ImplementationEvent OrganizationAssessment DesignEvent RepresentationNon-Traditional Hiring MethodologiesData ScrapingScreeningTechnical Recruiting

About

● 12 years of experience in technology hiring and building teams from scratch. Passionate to lead and enable high performing teams. ● 4 years as Team Lead: APAC and India pod recruiting lead managing 3 recruiters for R&D org scaling & hiring. Coaching team on various facets to unblock their delivery like stakeholder management, escalation resolution and more. ● HANDSON DELIVERY: D&I advocate. Delivery focussed, process-driven hiring advisor handled atleast 10 to 15 requirements at any given time in a quarter. Averaging 82% of offer to joiner ratio. ● STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Believe in building relationships, nurturing the talent pool and grow with the team. Passionate to provide world-class candidate and hiring manager experience; alongside stakeholder partnership. ● TALENT & EMPLOYER BRANDING: Planned, organized and executed in-house Tech Meetups targetted towards improved. Represented in tech summits and conferences like GHC, HasGeek, FifthElephant, JSFoo, MetaRefresh. ● PROJECTS & ATS Enthusiast: Involved in Compensation benchmark. Designed new Interview framework. Coaching Interviewing etiquette, team handling, capacity planning, succession planning. Sponsored global projects like Battlecards, Greenhouse CRM implementation, Auto Tagging enabler. Most popular one is Hiring Toolkit and building Playbook. ● METRICS: Monitor aggressive metrics, like diversity hiring (Around ~26%), offer to joiner (maintained at >78%), channel mix, recruiter performance (8 to 9 hires per quarter), building team and individual KPI's (achieved over 90% includes delivery, stakeholder feedback solicitation) ● REPORTING: Talent intelligence, market pool availability, weekly progress updates, QBR data sets. Able to build dashboards, expertise in Google sheets and Excel advanced. ● AI Champion: Built automated dashboard for candidate pipeline health. Built Org-wise analytics dashboard for hiring progress and planning. Built interviewer panel histogram for panel utilisation and performance. ● A problem solver: Interaction with various units of business across cross-geo and cross-functional team inside & outside organization. Bridging the gaps & expectations between the requirement, candidate, hiring manager and the overall organization. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The value of an idea lies in the using of it. - Thomas A. Edison

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Atlassian

Talent Acquisition Lead

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Hiring engineers for India
  • Individually hiring 15 engineers / quarter. Involving From SSE, Principal and Managers
  • Automating recruitment analysis, dashboards
  • Part of HARNESS.IO from March 2024 to Aug 2024
Talent ManagementGlobal Talent AcquisitionRecruitingStakeholder ManagementHiringTalent Acquisition

Elastic

Talent Acquisition Lead

Sep 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1st recruiter to join India team to build the Bangalore center R&D team.
  • Managed 3 seasoned recruiters, responsible for capacity planning, planned delivery milestones and up-levelling them
  • Involved in strategising and scaled the center from 9 to 190+ in my stint of 2+ years.
  • Focussed mainly on engineering, also hired 30% of site with roles around solution architect, support, customer success and enterprise data function business groups.
  • Handson with sourcing along with mentoring & coaching team members on best practices. Advisor to hiring teams and business.
  • Owned and contributor to sponsored global projects run by TA representing APJ like CRM, battlecards, tool kits and more
  • Devised and executed hiring strategy customised to India hiring by guiding the engineering leadership and hiring managers on the India nuances of hiring
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingCapacity PlanningStakeholder ManagementSourcing

Cloudera (merged with hortonworks)

Lead Recruiter - India and APJ

Jun 2017 – Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Joined as site's 3rd ever recruiter in Bangalore to scale the site when we were 80+.
  • Led entire APAC engineering pod TA team and 5 member team
  • Hands on recruiter and focussed on building Bangalore center engineering R&D talent. Also the GTM roles in Singapore, Australia and Newzealand.
  • Implemented Interview Framework, Created assessment playbook for panels, Organised hiring events
  • Scaled BLR engg team from 80 to 550+ and hired across levels in technology SDE 1 , 2, 3, 4 including Staff, PE's, EM's, Sr EM & Architects upto Directors.
  • Skilled on backend (Java, Scala, GoLang, Python), frontend, fullstack, platform (Cloud, distributed systems, K8's, Data), SRE, Devops, Security and Support.
  • Building hiring plan & execution strategy with the engineering VP's, Directors and Chief of Staff
  • Worked with business leaders closely to define their TA priorities for the year and evaluate them every quarter.
  • Organised and executed external DevOps and Data Platform meetup
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingInterview Framework ImplementationEvent Organization

Intuit

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Nov 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Part of COE responsible for key & niche hires in R&D teams in Data engg, Cloud, SRE and platform infrastructure teams
  • SPOC for hiring Staff and Principal Engineers with a quarterly target of 8 hires / Q
  • Active representation for meetups for hiring and branding. Involved in GHC, MetaRefresh(UX), JSFoo(UI/Frontend), Fifth Elephant(Data), RootConf(DevOps).
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingEvent Representation

Google

Channels Specialist - Talent Acquisition

Dec 2014 – Nov 2015 · 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Part of a centralized team from Bangalore where the best talent of world were found from various channels to generate talent pipeline.
  • Specialist in non-traditional hiring methodologies. Expertise on building talent communities.
  • Specialisation built on GitHub, Stackoverflow, Internet tools and many such developer communities like Kaggle, CNCF, Meetup groups
  • Utilised chrome extensions which enabled in getting contact details, data scraping.
  • Build SQL query for generating candidates from Stackoverflow.
Talent AcquisitionNon-Traditional Hiring MethodologiesData ScrapingRecruiting

Sasken

Recruiter

Jul 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

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