Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · 11 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Sourced and secured top 0.1% AI/ML talent by leveraging non-traditional channels (Kaggle, ResearchGate, hackathons, GitHub, Mastadon, X), enabling hiring of highly specialised voice AI and speech synthesis experts.
• Built high-signal talent pipelines for voice AI and ML roles by proactively crawling GitHub and extracting relevant contribution data.
• Designed and executed advanced talent mapping strategies across global AI/ML ecosystems, identifying niche experts in speech, NLP, and audio modelling domains.
• Analysed and segmented large datasets of candidate signals (code commits, research publications, competition rankings) to prioritise top-tier talent, increasing interview-to-offer conversion rates.
• Partnered with hiring leaders to define hiring signals for emerging voice tech roles (TTS, ASR, generative audio), aligning sourcing strategy with cutting-edge product needs.
• Identified and engaged passive talent from elite AI communities (Kaggle Grandmasters, open-source contributors, research authors), strengthening pipeline depth for hard-to-fill roles.

Jan 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Recommending ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the organization, implementing new processes and fine tuning standard processes, while supporting Google's mission to deliver the highest quality results to our Next Billion Customers.
• Building and maintaining network of potential candidates through pro-active market research.
• Strategizing different ways to build talent pipelines and executing on tactical research, referral generation, events and sourcing campaigns.
• Using data and conversion metrics to optimize the sourcing approach and to help share insights to key business partners and working closely with hiring managers to deeply understand requirements of the role, the function and how it fits into the organization.
• Creating innovative sourcing strategies and engagement to bring the highly qualified talent.
• Developing and executing fully comprehensive hiring plans, analyzing requirements to determine target profile needs and matches.
• Facilitating and leading meetings, key initiatives and projects with client groups, and with the recruiting teams, that's gonna continuously improve and scale our recruiting operations and results.
• Regularly managing pipeline activity and maintaining data integrity, and proactively sharing data-centric updates with internal stakeholders.
• Participating in special recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers in EMEA.

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Engaged in creative sourcing sessions using platforms such as LinkedIn, Google's ATS, Hiretual, GitHub, Social Media Hiring & Market mapping across countries and regions to uncover best available talent.
• Recommended ideas and strategies related to recruitment of talent that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning current processes for recruiting that fits within Google's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
• Built and maintained network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducted in-depth interviews of potential candidates.
• Strategized different ways to build talent pipelines and execute on tactical research, referral generation, events and sourcing campaigns.
• Collaborated with closing partners to understand hiring needs and goals, and to develop, implement, and execute a custom hiring strategy to meet the talent pool’s desires to come join Google Space.
• Demonstrated success hiring for various technical roles such as GenSWE, SWE-ML, SWE-Mobile, SWE-Networking, EM, Payments, FinTech.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021 · 3 mos

• Responsible for the end-to-end recruitment process of the Ericsson's Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA); Ensuring the strategic planning, attracting, sourcing, selecting, and conversion of candidates for both specific requisitions, building a diverse pipeline of highly skilled resources, effectively managing candidate relationships, and selling Ericsson GAIA as an employer of choice.
• Proficient in recruiting passive candidates, possesses the mentality to profile people and gauge the chemistry of candidates for fit and, understands their motivations rather than just selling a role.
• Partnered with hiring teams to devise strategic sourcing, assessment, and closing tactics. Managed expectations with an ROI-focused approach. Cultivated a robust network of potential candidates via proactive market research and continuous relationship management. Skillfully predicted hiring manager preferences, as evidenced by high offer-to-interview ratios. Roles filled: Data Scientists (II, Senior, Principal), Machine Learning Engineers (MLE's, Senior, Principal), and Data Engineers, Product Managers, Program Managers.

Sep 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Proficient in sourcing candidates from Stack Overflow, GitHub, LinkedIn, Belong. co, cut short, Google X-ray search, Social Media hunting & network building.
• Partnering with hiring teams to build effective Tech sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Possessing strong ability to screen interview candidates within the framework of the position specifications and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Overlooking ATS management, updates, integrations with testing frameworks like hacker rank, and automating recurring tasks.
• Closely interacting with the team on a one to one basis to know them better in terms of work-related and other issues. Setting individual targets & helping the team to achieve the targets.
• Cultivated an active network of potential candidates through strategic market research and sustained relationship management. Performed thorough interviews, showcasing an aptitude for anticipating hiring manager preferences by maintaining high offer-to-interview ratios. Spearheaded the employer branding campaign for the GAIA team. Key skills hired: Full-stack, SDN Developers, SDN Testers, Cloud-Native, DevOps, Platform, Data Science, Python, GoLang, IMS, SIP, Frontend, and Product, Platform Engineers, Backend.

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · On-site

• 6 Months of internship; Aug onwards full time. Leadership Hiring Associate. Hiring SM/Director; Cloud & DevOps, Big Data, Java & emerging technologies, ReactJs & Angular 4, AEM, Full-Stack Developers, Front-end, Backend Engineers (Python, Js, Java & more), Cloud, Payments, Finance, FinTech (Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan), Retail(Tesco, Costco)

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Designed & Developed the whole recipe app named ‘Recipe Hampers’ for the organization.