Saaquib Dawoodani

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Scaled Rippling India employee strength by 4x in 1.5 years.
  • Led global recruitment teams at Europe's largest fintech.
  • Achieved 90.46% offer acceptance rate at Rippling.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Talent ManagementRecruiting

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AnalyticsBankingBig DataBusiness AdministrationBusiness AnalysisBusiness Intelligence (BI)Business StrategyCommunicationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer ServiceData AnalysisData AnalyticsDatabase DevelopmentDatabasesEnglish

About

Head of Talent at Blume Ventures. Helping our portfolio founders build great teams! 🚀 Previously worked as the Head of Business Recruitment at Rippling in India. Earlier, I was the Head of India Recruitment at Revolut, Europe's largest fintech. Prior to that, I was a Recruitment Consultant at Michael Page for clients across Financial Services. Started my career with HDFC Bank working as a Product Manager across Mortgages & High-Net Worth Product teams. If you're keen to explore exciting opportunities across Blume's portfolio, register your interest here - https://binary.so/VERbwzA

Experience

9 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Blume ventures

Vice President, Talent

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Blume's 1st ever in-house Talent Head. I'm responsible for working with Blume's portfolio companies and help them hire A-players!
  • I work directly with the Partners at Blume and my job is to support our founders build great teams, across various sectors, stages, & regions.

Rippling

Head of Business Recruitment, India

Feb 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Recruiting Manager for all non-tech hiring at Rippling. Managing a team of 8 TAs responsible for scaling Rippling’s business teams in India, including GTM functions like Sales & Marketing, CX & Support, Operations, and G&A.
  • My team helped in scaling Rippling India employee strength by 4x in 1.5 years. We have never missed our hiring goals and have overachieved our recruiting targets in each and every quarter.
  • Worked directly with the Global Head of Business Recruitment & the VP of Global Talent Acquisition.
  • ~20 months spent at this beautiful place:
  • 🚀 Hires - 1092 amazing folks
  • 🤝🏼 Offer acceptance rate - 90.46%
  • 📈 Recruitment team size - 3x'ed
  • 🇮🇳 Rippling India org - 4x'ed
RecruitingTeam ManagementTalent Management

Revolut

6 roles

Head of Recruitment - Support, India, & Central Hiring

Jun 2023Feb 2024 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • From a Board of Director to a Junior IC role, I covered pretty much everything one could during my time at Revolut! :)
  • Led 2 global recruitment teams, in addition to managing India recruitment.
  • Responsible for leading hiring for:
  • Support / Volume roles
  • Central Recruitment (internal TA hiring)
  • Key India business roles
  • Led a team of 15+ Recruiters & Sourcers working from the UK, Europe, and India - responsible for global hiring (recruiting across EU, APAC, UK, US & LATAM)
  • I worked directly with the Global Head of TA & various Heads of the functions we support.
  • I was rated as a ‘Strong performer’ in every quarter at Revolut, i.e. 10 consecutive quarters.
Talent ManagementRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Head of India Recruitment & Project Management

Promoted

Oct 2022Jun 2023 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Dual role - leading talent acquisition for the India business & Chief of Staff to the CPTO (managing projects) for successfully launching Revolut in India. Working closely with the India leadership team & senior global stakeholders across functions - primarily Recruitment, Product, and Strategy & Operations.
  • I work directly with the India CEO and the Global Head of Recruitment at Revolut.
  • Joined as Employee #5 at Revolut India & the 1st one to be hired in Recruitment. Today, we're a strong team of 1000+ folks in India.
Talent ManagementRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Talent Acquisition - Leading Business & Leadership Hiring

Promoted

Jan 2022Oct 2022 · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • I am leading business & leadership recruitment in India. I am working on building the executive leadership team for Revolut India & hire the best folks across functions like strategy, product, growth, marketing, compliance, legal, risk, finance, tech & engineering, operations, people, etc. 🚀
  • I have personally sourced & hired 50+ candidates across functions, territories, & seniorities including some key leadership hires for Revolut in one year - with 0 agency support. Today, I lead a team of recruiters & sourcers working on building this rocketship in India! 🇮🇳
  • In this role, I directly work with the Global Head of Recruitment & the India Leadership team at Revolut.
Talent ManagementRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

India Recruitment

Aug 2021Mar 2022 · 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Responsible for working closely with the India Leadership team & hiring rockstars for building Revolut's India business from the ground up.
Talent ManagementRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Territories Recruitment - India & US

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • I was in charge of working closely with leadership team to identify and secure top talents to help grow India business. I was also working on positions in other parts of the world including other countries in APAC, Europe and the US.
Talent ManagementRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Strategy & Operations Recruiter

Feb 2021Jun 2021 · 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Responsible for global hiring for the most crucial function in Revolut, focused on hiring individuals who set the strategic direction of the business.
  • Joined as Employee #5 at Revolut India & the 1st one to be hired in Recruitment.
Talent ManagementRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

The talent deck

Founding Team

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Bringing the power of community to the Talent Acquisition world 🚀

Michael page

Recruitment Consultant

Oct 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • I specialised in mid to senior level recruitment for support functions in the Banking, FinTech, Insurance & Private Equity/VC domain. The role also included identifying business opportunities, market mapping & advising with the most appropriate recruitment solutions to my key accounts & to the senior professionals in my ever-growing network.
  • I worked on roles across finance, operations, risk, compliance, and audit. I was amongst the highest performing recruitment consultants at Michael Page.
Talent ManagementRecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Hdfc bank

3 roles

Product Manager - Mortgages

Feb 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Part of the ‘Talent Pool’ - Top 10% of the organisation.
RecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Product Manager - HNW

May 2017Jan 2018 · 8 mos

Management Trainee

May 2016Apr 2017 · 11 mos

  • HNW - Product Management
  • Driving, handling, and tracking the Assets Business of HNW Customers at HDFC Bank.
  • Data analytics and tracking for identifying gaps, activations, trends and preparing management presentations.
  • In charge of Campaigns, Strategy, Contests and Cross sell Initiatives of Assets for all HNW Customers which includes Auto Loan, Personal Loan, Business Loan, Home Loan, Loan Against Property, Business Loans, Working Capital, etc.
  • Achievements
  • FY16-17
  • 1. Value Growth: 115% growth in Q4 business over Q1 by Value. 25% growth in FY 17 compared to FY 16.
  • 2. Run Rate: 2X growth in Auto Loan & Personal Loan run rate in Mar’17 compared to Apr’16.
  • 3. VROOM Contest:
  • 96% growth in Asset cases converted (units) during the contest period (Q4) over Q3.
  • 81% Value growth of asset cases during the same period.
  • RMs inactive in Q3 who got activated in Q4 on various Asset products:
  • Auto Loan – 1361
  • Personal Loan – 1268
  • Other Retail Assets – 799
  • Business Assets – 1920
  • 4. Process Gap Identification: Unmapped Asset Cases done through Digital Applications were identified for RM credit – contributing an incremental value of 200+ Cr.
  • 5. Incremental business through Contests for LAP & WC:
  • LAP: 20% growth in unit sales & 43% growth in value.
  • EEG (WC): 26% growth in unit sales & 49% growth in value.
  • 6. Providing pre-approved offers for HNW customers, customers having high-propensity for asset products, etc. to the branches.
  • 7. Support to branches / resources on better rates, amount, etc. for all loan products.

Darashaw

Summer Intern

May 2015Jun 2015 · 1 mo

  • Study of the Investment Behavior of Autonomous Bodies in India.

Education

XLRI Jamshedpur

Executive Development Program — Talent Management

Jan 2021Jan 2022

GrowthX®

Product & Growth Bootcamp

Jan 2021Jan 2022

K J Somaiya Institute of Management

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2014Jan 2016

SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce SION(W)

Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) — Finance

Jan 2011Jan 2014

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