May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

• Helping build teams

Jul 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · New York, United States · Remote

• Headed the Talent Acquisition vertical
• > Grew the organization strength 3x
• > Built teams in business verticals of Engineering, Product, Marketing/GTM, Sales, Operations and QA (from zero)
• > Collaborated directly with the Chief of Staff, Head of Operations and business unit leaders from all verticals (mentioned in the point above) for strategic workforce planning
• > Conducted recruitment on a global scale and increased our employee presence in nations like — Brazil, Argentina, Philippines, Bangladesh and the US
• > Set up the operational process for end-to-end recruitment and optimized existing workflows
• > Crafted automation to the hiring process to improve TAT by ~50%, and reduce manual effort by ~80%
• > Implemented the first ATS — Ashby, through extensive research and evaluations processes. Before its implementation, constructed a make-shift ATS using tools like G-Suite, Notion, Airtable, Typeform and Calendly which created a comprehensive alternative to help track status in real-time, document all relevant information and retrieve actionable data insights
• > Established campus recruitment channel for intern hiring from tier 1 and tier 2 colleges like — IITs, IIITs and NITs
• > Utilized AI-tools to improve efficiency in job role understanding, creating progressive job descriptions (~500 weekly applicants for niche roles), creating engaging job postings (avg. ~25,000 impressions), vetting applicants and, to automate manual processes
• > Explored and collaborated with ~90 third-party vendors however, closed 96% of all positions through direct channels
• > Refined screen-to-offer ratio to 5:1 for niche roles
• > Job portals: LinkedIn (Recruiter, Sales Navigator & Recruiter Lite), Wellfound (+ATS), PyjamaHR, Braintrust, SVS, Remotely, HackerEarth
• > ATS: Ashby, Teamable and KekaHR
• > Tools: Slack, Notion, G-Suite, Airtable, ClickUp, Zoho Suite, Zoominfo, Equip
• > AI tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Oct 2022 – Jun 2023 · 8 mos · Pune District

• Talent Acquisition Group
• Infocepts is a Data and Analytics services and AI services firm catering to clients in various industries like: Media and Publishing, Pharma and Healthcare, Retails, Banks and Financial Institutions, Energy, Government, Technology
• > Handled end-to-end recruitment for various roles in Data, Analytics and AI/ML with core competency areas mentioned below:
• 1. Cloud and Data Engineering — App Dev. Big Data, Database, Infra and Admin
• 2. Analytics and Data Management — Data Integration, Modern Data Analytics, Platform Admin
• 3. Business Consulting — Data Science, Data Storytelling, UI/UX, Solutions/Advisory, Business Analytics
• 4. Service Management — Project/Program Management, Tests and Service Automation
• > Used multi channel methods for fulfilling positions: Direct, Job Boards, Social Media, Partners, Employee Referrals
• > Responsible for conducting thorough screening methods to filter relevant Tech/IT skills and optimizing the element of Screen to Select ratio
• > Enhance vendor contribution through persistent reiterations for bridging the gap for role knowledge, and increasing quality of footfall and timeline
• > Leveraging constant and freshly derived Market Analysis to enable targeted sourcing
• > ATS tool: Zwayam
• > Job Boards/Portals and Social Media Channels: Naukri, LinkedIn, Instahyre, Instagram, Hirect, CoffeeMug
• > Other tools: MS Office 365, Oracle HCM
• Took part in DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity) driven initiatives for creating a culture of acceptance and promoting social hiring
• Deep diving into understanding technical skills and competency areas with stakeholders to enable accurate talent scouting

Oct 2019 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Global Strategic Resourcing (GSR) team member and closed 400+ positions
• Mphasis is a multinational IT services and consulting company that provides a range of services such as Application services, Business process services, Cognitive and Cyber Security, DevOps, and Infrastructure services.
• > As a GSR team member, responsible for hiring candidates for diverse job roles in all verticals and fulfilling the positions in the given SLAs while satisfying the KRA or KPIs such as:
• Source Channel Mix
• Cost-of-Hire/Cost-per-Hire
• TAT (Turn around time)
• Total Hired
• Employee Referral Contribution
• Work Hygiene and Compliance.
• > Responsible for conducting the full recruitment lifecycle focused towards hiring talent for International and Domestic clients across various roles in IT Operations/ITeS, KPO, BPS, Retail, Healthcare and BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) sector.
• > Worked closely with Partners and Third Party Contributors/Vendors to optimize their support and enable an efficient process for increased productivity = closing roles in large numbers, quicker.
• > Worked on Employee Referral strategies (such as: Campaigns, Programs, Marketing and Promotions) to improve the internal channels to hire thus reducing cost, enabling quality and improving employee relations.
• > Recruitment type — End-to-End Recruitment (Sourcing to Onboarding)
• > ATS and enterprise tools — PeopleSoft, RippleHire, Oracle HCM, Microsoft 365 (Excel, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• > Hiring Channels — Direct, Vendors, ERs, Social Media and Job Portals
• > Social Media and Job Portals — LinkedIn, Naukri, Hirect, Instagram, Monster, Indeed, TimesJob.
• Conducted Mass Recruitment Drives virtually and walk-in for large requirements.
• Done Niche Hiring or Head Hunting for specific top level roles.

Sep 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• In-House Recruiter in the talent acquisition team
• Closed 100+ roles at zero cost
• > Primary area of responsibility: Handle Mass Recruitment for Telecom giants globally for various roles in the BPO sector:
• CRM roles — Customer Support and Complaints
• Business Development Executives roles — Sales, Customer Retention and Up-selling
• Tech Support roles — Service Desk and IT helpdesk
• Payments and Collections
• > Worked in a fast paced environment to generate large footfall of candidates on a daily basis
• > End-to-end recruitment — responsible for using direct channels or job boards to source candidates and coordinate the entire interview process
• > Job Boards/Portals used: Naukri, LinkedIn, Monster, Indeed, TimesJob
• > ATS tools used: In-house developed system
• > Direct Channels used: Personal Networking, Social Media and References
• > Other areas of responsibilities:
• Documentation
• Salary Negotiation
• Stakeholder Coordination and Team Coordination
• Process Training
• Employer Branding
• Recruitment Drives