Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Hiring top talent to build our suite of learning and productivity tools.

May 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

• 🚀 Scaled Awesome Motive’s team size 2x — from 150 to 320 — as part of a lean 2-member TA team.
• 🎯 Improved offer acceptance rate from 73% to 92% by building a candidate-first approach and streamlining the closing process.
• ⏱️ Reduced average time-to-hire from 60+ days to 30–40 days through structured processes, proactive pipeline building, and efficient stakeholder alignment.
• 📅 Brought down interview scheduling time drastically — from over 90 days to just 3 days — by setting up centralized scheduling.
• 🧠 Spearheaded talent pool management initiative that proactively reduced time-to-fill and built strategic visibility into future hiring needs.
• 🤝 Collaborated with 30+ hiring managers across 20+ products, understanding role requirements, devising hiring strategies, and delivering quality hires within timelines. Built stakeholder trust through a proactive hiring model, ensuring alignment across functions and faster decision-making.
• 📂 Established centralized repositories, Job description bank, intake forms, assignment archives, improving hiring consistency across all products at AwesomeMotive.
• 🌍 Global Talent Headhunting & Market Mapping to Identifiy top talent across regions, aligning sourcing strategies with market trends to drive efficient hiring.
• 🚀 Identifying and implementing process improvements to use the ATS (Workable) to maximize efficiency and track complete candidate footprints.
• 🔄Automated the entire referral workflow, designed a referral policy, increasing referrals via ATS by 800% (70 to 600+), leading to a 500% rise in referral hires.

Aug 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• At LinkedIn, I supported an excellent team of 3, hiring for the Site Engineering function, responsible for maintaining platform uptime. My focus spanned end-to-end recruitment for roles ranging from IC2 to MR3 (Manager) levels, ensuring top-tier talent acquisition.
• 🔹 Key Achievements:
• Successfully hired 6 managers within the first 8 months, including Enterprise Engineering Managers, SRE Managers, and Software Engineering Managers.
• Placed candidates across Software Engineering, SRE, and Network Engineering roles.
• Managed the full recruitment lifecycle, from requisition to offer negotiations, process optimization, and educating hiring panels on best practices.
• Encouraged referrals and presented hiring reports to Site Engineering leadership in India.
• 🔹 Process & Collaboration:
• Created weekly reports for the US team to provide pipeline updates and address blockers.
• Partnered closely with Compensation & Benefits to craft competitive offers.
• Led TA media campaigns to boost visibility for critical roles.
• 🔹 Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives:
• Co-led WiSE & TechCon 2022 with my 23-member team, driving engagement for women in tech and allies.
• Designed and executed programs to attract and retain diverse talent.
• 🔹 Beyond Recruitment:
• Took on a Bungee & Stretch Assignment as a Site Operations Engineer, gaining practical knowledge in site reliability.

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021 · 9 mos

• Within a year's stint, I earned a promotion, expanded my hiring scope, and took on a mentorship role, guiding junior team members while driving high-impact recruitment initiatives.
• 🔹 Expanded Hiring Scope & Niche Roles
• Continued leading early career recruitment while taking on senior hires across backend, web, and mobile.
• Successfully recruited for highly specialized roles, including OpenGL and Camera developers.
• 🔹 Mentorship & High-Volume Hiring
• Mentored a team of two while managing a high hiring volume—50-100 roles assigned in just two quarters.
• Developed hiring strategies to meet aggressive targets, ensuring all roles were successfully closed before my exit.
• 🔹 Scaling the Engineering Team
• Played a key role in scaling the engineering team from 50 to 250 in just 1.5 years—a significant milestone in the company’s growth.
• 🔹 Candidate Experience & Data-Driven Insights
• Launched an NPS (Net Promoter Score) program across tech and non-tech functions to capture candidate feedback.
• Built and maintained an NPS dashboard, generating reports to keep the team informed and continuously improve the hiring experience.

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 · 11 mos

• I joined ShareChat as a Technical Recruiter, part of a lean two-person tech hiring team, where I took on multiple roles, from strategic hiring to process revamp and optimization.
• 🔹 Scaling Tech Hiring
• Took charge of high-volume hiring for backend developers and engineering interns (backend, frontend, mobile).
• Early career recruitment became a key focus, working closely with the VP of Engineering to define processes, collaborate with the brand team, and co-create coding assessments with developers to ensure high-quality hiring.
• Specialized in hiring interns, SDE-1/2 across backend, UI, and mobile, building a strong talent pipeline.
• 🔹 Data-Driven Recruitment & Leadership Engagement
• Presented hiring metrics to leadership on a weekly basis, identifying roadblocks and strategizing solutions.
• 🔹 Revamping the Referral Program
• Designed and implemented a structured referral process, transitioning from manual emails to an ATS-driven approach (Recruiterbox).
• Led the ATS selection and implementation, ensuring a smooth transition for the team.
• Drove internal awareness on the importance of referrals through branding and communication campaigns, increasing employee participation.
• 🔹 Full-Cycle Recruitment & Offer Management
• Managed the end-to-end hiring process, from sourcing to offer negotiations, ensuring seamless execution and an exceptional candidate experience.

May 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 🔹End-to-End Recruitment Execution – Managed sourcing, screening, and interview coordination, ensuring alignment with business requirements.
• 🔹 Candidate Engagement & Preparation – Provided candidates with accurate, detailed, and inspiring insights about the company and role to enhance interview readiness.
• 🔹 Strategic Sourcing – Leveraged multiple platforms, including Naukri.com, IIM Jobs, Hirist, LinkedIn, Instahyre, AngelList, and CrewKarma, to identify top talent.
• 🔹 Talent Acquisition & Pipeline Building – Executed advertising, networking, headhunting, shortlisting, and interview coordination, ensuring a seamless hiring experience.
• 🔹 Referral & Campus Hiring Initiatives – Established and maintained a structured employee referral program and successfully led campus placement efforts.
• 🔹 High-Volume Hiring & Junior-Level Recruitment – Conducted hiring drives to efficiently fill junior-level roles and build a strong early-career talent pipeline.

Dec 2017 – Feb 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Cold calling leads and identifying the potential customers to explain details of the different products and services offered and convince them to buy the same.
• Giving product pitches and education counselling to prospective customers interested to give CAT & GMAT examinations.
• Operate the CRM (Leadsqaured) and ensure authentic information is available with the company.

May 2017 – Jun 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Quiklo is a consumer lending platform for Students enabling Education and Electronics purchase on EMI. We intend to make education accessible to all by providing collateral free loans for education be it yearly College fees, Test Prep fees for JEE\NEET\Higher Studies, Skill Development Fees or Vocational Training Fees. We process loans really quick within a day at the best interest rates possible.
• During my internship, I have worked on the following:
• Content Creation and Blog posting on Wordpress.
• Answering to relevant questions on Quora.
• Social Media Marketing.