Oct 2022 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• At ZEE - Technology & Innovation, I played a crucial role in transforming our talent acquisition strategy to support our vision of becoming a leading content technology company. By identifying and attracting top-tier engineering and digital talent, I ensured that our hiring decisions strengthened our capabilities in building cutting-edge platforms. My collaboration with senior leadership and HR fostered a culture that attracts innovative thinkers and driving forward our strategic initiatives.

Sep 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Plivo is a cloud communications platform that empowers businesses to connect, engage and interact with their customers in a more efficient and meaningful way. Thousands of businesses around the globe including IBM, Workday, Godaddy, and Lifesize rely on Plivo to power their voice and SMS communications at global scale.
• Led a team of 10 recruiters and 3 contractual sourcers supporting PAN India recruitment
• for Plivo
• Proactively scan industry trends, develop and implement innovative solutions for Talent Acquisition
• Worked with internal and external service providers to develop business intelligence to support, enhance, and optimize Talent Acquisition operations and technology solutions
• Partnered with senior business leaders to build robust recruitment strategies and annual plans
• Developed and managed key performance indicators for the TA team with respect to attracting and hiring candidates
• Partnered with HR Business Partners and HR COEs to develop diversity metrics, dynamics and strategies
• Responsible for OKR, goal setting and performance management of the TA team
• Worked with multiple external vendors to drive employer branding initiatives
• Develop strong relationships with universities to increase on campus brand awareness

Dec 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• WeWork is the platform for creators, providing hundreds of thousands of members around
• the world with space, community and services that enable them to do what they love and
• create their life’s work.
• Lead a team of 13 resources supporting the PAN India recruitment for WeWork
• Responsible for setting up strategic goals and ensuring the team meets the desired SLA
• and KRA
• Responsible for driving process improvements and introducing new state of the art
• recruiting projects
• Collaborated with the business stakeholders to build effective sourcing and assessment
• strategies
• Managed customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of talent trends
• Managed C-level (Executive) recruitment for WeWork
• Recommended ideas and strategies related to recruitment that contributed to the longrange
• growth of the company, implemented new processes and fine-tuned standard
• processes
• Lead the compensation and benefits benchmarking exercise for WeWork, partnered with
• Mercer to design the compensation philosophy, benchmarked employees against the
• market and suggested pay corrections

Aug 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Spearheaded the Compliance Operations recruitment with a team of 4 recruiters and 2 recruitment coordinators.
• Built and maintained a network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on- going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high Resume-Offer ratios.
• Developed the prospects in candidates, engaging them and performing initial screening, conducting behavioural based interviews, Questionnaires etc.
• Partnered with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of talent trends.
• Actively partnered in new employee on-boarding and ensured a good candidate experience throughout the recruiting life cycle of the candidate.
• Developed and executed scalable search strategies to attract the brightest minds and best talent for the most critical hiring needs.
• Participated in special projects/recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, improving customer/candidate experience, leveraging of internal sources of talent.

Jan 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Working with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducting in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.
• Developing and executing scalable search strategies that will attract the brightest and best talent for the most critical hiring needs. Calibrating candidate profiles and background with Hiring Executives.
• Developing the prospects into candidates, engaging them and performing initial assessment including participating in client update meetings on active searches and prepare activity/prospects reports for discussion
• Recommended ideas and strategies related to recruitment that contributed to the long-range growth of the company, implementing new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification.I possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.

Mar 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

Sep 2011 – Mar 2012 · 6 mos · Bay Area, CA

• TRUGlobal/J2Logix is a Global IT Consulting and Professional Services company which is one of the best in providing Consultants in the Pacific side and are specialized in working on requirement related to oracle. Most of the clients which we work are direct clients and we don’t work on layers.
• Responsibilities:
• Responsible for full lifecycle recruiting process to include sourcing and identifying candidates, phone screening, negotiating pay rates, submitting, scheduling client interviews and conducting follow-ups.
• Engaged in hiring consultants specialized in Functional and technical side of Oracle Applications.
• Sourcing consultants through Dice, Career Builder, Monster, Corp-Corp, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google etc.
• Thorough preliminary screening of the candidate to evaluate various parameters like experience, technical skills, communication skills, pays rate, education etc.
• Posting ads in job sites as per the requirements.
• Posting jobs on Social Networks like Linked In get the best consultants with a competitive rate
• Successfully placed US Citizens/ GC/ EAD / H1 consultants in various domains

Mar 2011 – Sep 2011 · 6 mos · Roslindale, Boston, MA

• Managed a staff of two Recruiters/Staffing Coordinators – disseminated work to the team and provided guidance to each individual as needed.
• Performed high-volume recruiting for administrative and technical personnel, both contract and full-time positions.
• Performed extensive recruiting for Senior Software/Database Developers with heavy focus on technologies such as: C/C++, (Windows & UNIX/Linux), .NET, Java/J2EE, SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Sourced and advertised online, managed high-volume resume flow, interviewed and recommended qualified candidates to the hiring managers.
• Coordinated interviews for managers; acted as a liaison between hiring managers and vendors or candidates.
• Performed first-day orientation of newly hired contract employees.
• Prepared and distributed recruiting/hiring activity reports

Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 · 6 mos · Roslindale, Boston, MA

• Performed high-volume recruiting for administrative and technical personnel, both contract and full-time positions.
• Performed extensive recruiting for Senior Software/Database Developers with heavy focus on technologies such as: C/C++, (Windows & UNIX/Linux), .NET, Java/J2EE, SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Sourced and advertised online, managed high-volume resume flow, interviewed and recommended qualified candidates to the hiring managers.
• Coordinated interviews for managers; acted as a liaison between hiring managers and vendors or candidates.
• Performed first-day orientation of newly hired contract employees.
• Reviewed, revised, and reformatted job descriptions ensuring readiness for posting on company’s website and job boards.