Mahesh Sathe

HR Manager

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 600 talents hired across multiple brands.
Expert in aligning talent strategies with business goals.
Strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in hiring.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader in the B2C sector, specializing in high-growth environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionPeople ManagementRecruitingTalent ManagementCorporate Recruiting

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCC++CSSCandidate ManagementCustomer ServiceE-commerceEnglishHTMLIT RecruitmentJavaJavaScriptLinuxManager SelectionMySQL

About

With over 11 years of hands-on experience in talent acquisition, I’ve built and led recruiting functions that fuel high-performing teams across fast-paced startups and scaling businesses. From hiring my first engineer to building full recruitment frameworks across corporate and retail functions, my philosophy remains clear — great talent builds great companies. For the past four years, I’ve led and mentored a team of recruiters, driving hiring strategies that balance speed with quality. I partner closely with business leaders to align talent priorities with organizational goals, design processes that elevate the candidate experience, and champion diversity and inclusion as core pillars of hiring success. What differentiates me is a deep understanding of startup dynamics — I thrive where agility, innovation, and growth intersect. Whether it’s launching new hiring initiatives, building high-touch employer brands, or closing niche and hard-to-fill roles, I stay focused on creating measurable impact through people. Currently seeking to connect with visionary leaders and growing organizations that value a strategic yet hands-on talent partner who can build teams, culture, and capability from the ground up.

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

Aza fashions

Senior Manager - HR

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Experienced HR professional currently leading Talent Acquisition across Corporate and Retail verticals for Pan India operations, while also serving as an HR Business Partner for the Online business at Aza Fashions.
I head a dynamic team of four HR members, driving strategic and scalable hiring initiatives. My core focus is on enhancing recruitment efficiency through robust SOPs and advanced ATS tools, ensuring a seamless and data-backed hiring process.
In collaboration with the Chief Business Officer, I manage the complete employee lifecycle for 200+ employees—from onboarding to exits—and oversee critical HR functions such as performance management, retention planning, and manpower optimization. My approach blends people-first strategies with business alignment to drive sustainable growth and employee engagement.

Talent AcquisitionPeople ManagementCandidate ManagementCorporate RecruitingTalent ManagementStaff Retention+1

The good glamm group

2 roles

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Talent Acquisition Leader | Driving Growth Across 12 Premium Brands
As a dynamic leader in talent acquisition, I’ve had the privilege of overseeing the hiring strategies for 12 iconic brands, including POPxo, ScoopWhoop, Miss Malini, Tweak, MyGlamm, Organic Harvest, Sirona, St. Botanica, The Mom’s Co, Winkl, Vidooly, and Plixxo.
Managing a powerhouse team of 10+ talented recruiters, I’ve consistently driven performance and growth across multiple channels, ensuring the right talent joins the right teams.
Key Achievements:
600+ Talents hired across multiple brands over the past two years, contributing to the strategic growth of each business.
Expertise in managing team performance metrics and dashboards, delivering actionable insights and achieving key hiring goals.
Collaborating closely with multiple CEOs and leadership teams to secure top-tier talent and drive organizational success.
With a passion for scaling businesses through talent and innovation, I’ve built a track record of excellence in leadership hiring, cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the talent pipeline aligns with each brand's unique vision and needs.

RecruitingTalent AssessmentManager SelectionNiche Talent AcquisitionTalent PipeliningTalent Scouting+2

Talent Acquisition Manager

Aug 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Pepper

Talent Acquisition Lead

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021 · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Content is the currency of digital marketing, yet over 80% of businesses haven't formalized the way they produce content. Pepper powers content curation for India's leading brands as our innovative, enterprise content platform, expert services and diverse content offerings produce measurable business results.
We envision to be the one-stop destination for content creation for vernacular, voice and video. We are creating the largest curated community of content creators in India through an AI-enabled platform. With the Indian Internet landscape undergoing a lingual transformation, Pepper is bullish on the Indian Regional Languages and aims to create for the next billion.
With state-of-the-art technology, we offer an end to end solution for content creation, covering the journey from ideation to publishing. Offering a 4-layered quality review process on every creation, the best of its kind, our content translates to improved search rankings and traffic, increased conversion rates and brand integrity.
Pepper so far-
500,000+ content pieces delivered so far
Content deliverance in over 19+ verticals, 15+ languages and 170+ categories
Creating a content piece every 4 Minutes 21 Seconds
Trusted by 300+ brands like IndiaToday, Swiggy, Dunzo, BookMyShow, Times Internet, InfoEdge, Matrimony, Paisabazaar, etc. to name a few.
My Role at Pepper:
Leading the Talent Acquisition Process
Stakeholder management
Planning and executing onboarding experience
Supporting business for resource planning and execution

Bytedance

Talent Acquisition Partner

Mar 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Hiring for Core business function i.e Sales, Client solutions, Marketing, Sales ops

Bookmyshow

Senior Executive Talent Acquisition

Jan 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Hired Tech & Non Tech roles for Mumbai, Bangalore and UAE
Managed campus hiring for various business functions
Contributed towards Stakeholder management, End to end recruitment, Pre on-boarding, Vendor Management

Quantiphi, inc.

HR Executive

Jun 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

Part of hiring lateral hires for Project specific hiring
Hired roles from Big Data, Data Science, Business Analyst, Data Engineer, Project Lead, Principal Architect.
Managed campus hiring and contributed towards building up the team from 40 people to 300 plus in a span of one year.

Corporate RecruitingTalent Management