Jun 2023 – Jul 2023 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Oct 2011 – Jun 2023 · 11 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Being part of early founding team, solely managed all the activities of HR, TA, and admin roles until the formation of these individual teams.
• Owning end-to-end Recruitment life cycle with a strong focus on building world class teams from scratch.
• Collaborating with founders and leaders, understanding their vision, and supporting them with identifying key leaders to accelerate expansion.
• Instrumental in setting up our Product, Customer Success, Professional Services, Sales, and Support Functions teams from scratch
• Built and Led a TA team of 20+ Managers, Leads and Recruiters who were responsible for all the hiring needs across Professional services, Sales and Product development.
• Effectively used various channel mixes and managed many hiring programs to attract talent and scaled up the headcount to 1500+ across India
• Initiated campus hiring (Early Connect), Intern hiring, and Campus connect programmes across functions.
• Played a key role in setting up candidate engagement processes that includes Buddy programs, Post offer engagement activities and managed the Offer to joining ratio to around 70%
• Managed the TA branding activities along with the Marketing team and increased our Inbound/employee referral responses

May 2011 – Oct 2011 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Instrumental in ramping and setting up the Technology, Product, Customer Success and Support functions by partnering with stakeholders at Calgary, Canada office
• Hired 40+ employees in 5 months during my stint here
• Managed the migration of existing ATS from Taleo to Newton

Jan 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for end-to-end lateral recruitment of Junior to Middle level management for challenging clients of the company
• Conducted recruitment drives over alternate weekends in accelerating the hiring for different skills and clients
• Collaborated with clients and leaders and ramped up their teams in brief time
• Appreciated and awarded for smooth onboarding and orientation of the new joiners, accoladed by both new joiners and management

Sep 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Managing all the verticals in recruitment & responsible for all the senior level hires. Also responsible for day to day operations of the company.
• Managed Sourcing and delivery of all the accounts like Capco, Mindtree, Symphony Services, IndusInd Bank, DCB Bank, AXIS Bank, HDFC Bank, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India across IT & Non-IT recruitments

Oct 2006 – Sep 2007 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Joined them as a Recruiter and also managed the day to day operations for their India Operations to manage their HR, TA and Admin roles for a small setup
• Built a team of 20+ Lateral hires across engineering in latest Open-Source technologies

Jan 2006 – Oct 2006 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Consulting Clients for Business Processes across Sales and Marketing activities
• Plan, organizes, and implements business development programs for the account.
• Manage IT Staffing, develop new clients
• Good understanding on technical specifications of each job profile
• Responsible for contract of IT professionals for clients across the US
• Negotiating pay rates & Conducting reference checks