Oct 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Currently leading efforts as a Global Program Manager to assess our current global recruiting practices from candidate application to pre-onboarding with an initial focus on the Interview and Offer process.
• Leveraging systems thinking, business process architecture and candidate experience in our amazing Recruiting organization. Excited to make travel easier, more enjoyable, more attainable and more accessible by finding, engaging and developing amazing people that will help us take the world's travel platform into the future!
• Define Expedia Group’s new talent acquisition platform model in partnership with organization leaders.
• Develop the product roadmap and technology strategy for our candidate-centric, global hiring platform.
• Conduct user research with global recruiting team members to design an automated interview scheduling solution, targeted at 20% time savings per candidate.
• Deliver team Agile and Product coaching.
• Socialize customer data with enterprise management and divisional teams to identify key business opportunities and action plans.
• Lead guidance and planning for customer solutions Enterprise-wide customer communications management and usage
• Designing interview training guideline collaborating with cross functional and business teams globally.
• Manager Talent Acquisition Oct - 17 - Present
• At Expedia, I manage recruitment for broadly three brands/verticals: Home Away/ Brand Expedia. In this role, my key responsibilities are:
• Lead and manage a team of recruiters across locations.
• Designing strategies to improve our efficiency - Candidate experience, TAT, diversity and Cost per hire and HMSAT.
• Branding initiatives across locations – WIT, WELL, Meet- ups, Hackathons, HR growth week and External conferences.
• Streamlining screening and assessment process to cultivate consistency and a high hiring bar across business groups and job families.

Apr 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Acting as talent partner to the India Operations Leader and spearheading a team of Full life cycle recruiters and recruiting managers across regions to steer hiring for FC, Last Mile and Middle Mile across IT, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Safety, Procurement and Product Compliance.
• Driving strategic programs and initiatives to improvise key recruiting metrics such as candidate experience, cost per hire, source mix and TATPartnered with the business leaders to lead both annual and mid-year review processes which focus on performance management and talent development
• Root causing complex problem analyzing patterns to implement workable solutions across teams.
• Partner with clients/senior leadership to identify appropriate metrics to monitor performance and effectiveness of team’s charter and deliverables.
• Effectively driving Mentor Program and helping develop new recruits across global teams

Aug 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Responsible for the Launch of Amazon.in India - Instrumental in seeding International consume business, Fulfillment Centers and Amazon logistics hiring. First Recruiter on the ground to support Strategic hiring for .in launch ( Technology, Product, Sales, UX, Ops)
• Coached and mentored 12 associate recruiters (contract) to dawn the responsibility of full-cycle recruiters by enhancing skills to deliver on the recruiting objectives.
• Competency-Based Hiring: Implemented competency-based recruitment process by job analysis, position profiling and designed skill inventory for each position. Talentbatttle card along with compensation benchmarking as key drivers to deliver hiring across a new seeded group across India seamlessly.
• Bagged Appreciation Certification for 2 consecutive years for Best Recruiter FY14/FY15.
• Selected to represent India Recruitment team at the 1st global conference for Amazon recruiting held in Seattle, 2015

Apr 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for Launch of Cricket team in India - Instrumental mental in seeding International consume business, Fulfillment Centers and Amazon logistics hiring.
• Worked with cross functions team in aligning best practices across globe and supporting niche hiring roles - Product Manager,Technical Program Manager and Senior Development Manager.
• Partnered effectively in seeing cricket team ( confidential project) in India, worked with cross functional team and senior leadership in creating Job families, compensation bench marking, market mapping to understand India market and there by leading launched of ICB.
• Streamlining recruiting dashboards, creating SME within team to run specialized hiring across different verticals.

May 2009 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Talent Acquisition - Lead Recruiter May 09 - Aug 11
• Recruiter - Technology Hiring
• Led and Managed team : RCX/ Junglee/ A9.com/Prime
• Part of team building Rcx,GPS, A9 and other tech teams for Bangalore Center.
• Leading SDE hiring across Bangalore supporting various roles TPM, SDEII, Product Manager and Responsible for Senior level hiring, working with Senior Manager and Dir in planning and designing recruiting events, publishing hiring calendars working backwards.
• Leading team of Recruiters driving hiring across various technology group in Bangalore.

Jun 2006 – Sep 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• Responsible for full life-cycle recruitment and placement for all verticals in IT.
• Hand on experience on Contract staffing end to end exposure right from sourcing candidates to Interview scheduling finally issuing offer letter, negotiation on salary and date of joining
• Clients handled VMWARE, HCL, NETAPPS, Teracotta,Oracle and IBM
• Closed positions in niche skills with international client Teracotta.
• Leading a team of 4 members.