Mar 2025 – Nov 2025 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Sep 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Focussing on Engineer, Infrastructure hiring goals for India.
• Played a pivotal role in scaling Okta's Business Technology group by building high-performing teams from the ground up.
• Partnered closely with Okta's leadership, recruiters, and sourcers to identify and attract top-tier technical talent.
• Developed and executed effective sourcing and recruitment strategies, consistently achieving key results and hiring targets for the region.
• Leveraged data and metrics to continuously improve processes and refine recruitment strategies for maximum efficiency.
• Have successfully contributed 35% of Gender diverse hires.
• Mentored, Onboarded/trained new TA team members.

Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed and led a team of Talent Partners to deliver successful hiring outcomes for APAC.
• Developed and maintained the recruitment process, resulting in a streamlined approach to hiring.
• Advised stakeholders on appropriate attraction and selection methods for each role, resulting in successful closures.
• Conducted in-depth behavioural interviews to provide considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Reduced time-to-hire by 30% resulting in increased team productivity and reduced hiring costs by automation tools & cutting down on agency support.
• Built key relationships with global stakeholders to maximise return on investment.
• Partnered with the executive leadership teams in headcount planning, budgeting & recruiting strategies for APAC region.
• Implemented advanced analytics to optimize hiring processes.
• Co-created & successfully completed various Projects, helping TA to streamline the processes & practices.
• Constantly invested in coaching, mentoring the team. Having been responsible for their career growth.

Mar 2022 – Oct 2022 · 7 mos

• Currently building Twilio, focussed on Tech leadership hiring for both APJ & EMEA.
• Partnering closely with many geographically distributed cross-functional teams .
• Collaborating with Finance, HR Business partners, BU leaders in headcount planning for the region.
• Contributing to TA strategies for global teams/BUs being a part of the Senior leadership TA member.
• Closely aligned to India site strategy & operations for Talent Acquisition in APJ.
• Building pool of top talent engineering leaders. Effectively moving them through the hiring process in a timely manner.
• Supporting end-to-end recruiting needs and related TA audits processes.
• Leading the recruiting process from sourcing to the final offer stage.
• Manage & influence complex partner relationships to ensure overall staffing objectives are met.
• Being functional point of contact for key stakeholders.
• Being resourceful to engage regional & global team members, HR and hiring managers to create.
• hiring strategies.
• Acting as a dedicated resource to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with a passion to advocate for more inclusive approaches to hiring.
• People evangelist with a “do the right thing” attitude.
• A structured planner with the ability to work accurately.
• Passionate in coaching, mentoring and developing talent.
• Trusted advisor to the management on identification, selection & offer process.
• Lead multiple global initiatives pertaining to TA such as "Twilio offer Pitch & closing best practices", "TA Leadership hiring process strategies". " Mentorship & reverse mentorship program within TA".

Nov 2021 – Mar 2022 · 4 mos

• Trusted advisor to the management on identification, selection & offer process.
• Partnering closely with many geographically distributed cross-functional teams.
• Partnering with senior business leaders and the internal Talent function to execute senior level searches for Twilio APJ.
• Focus on KPI’s including cost per hire, time to offer, time to fill, diversity, channel effectiveness and customer experience.
• Lending direction towards initiatives aimed at increasing company visibility in niche talent pools.
• Implementing Process Improvements in the Talent search Process.
• Effective stakeholder management and proactive communication.

Mar 2021 – Nov 2021 · 8 mos

• Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience.
• Twilio is truly unique. We are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development, and your entire employee experience. We only win when our employees succeed and we're dedicated to helping you develop your strengths.
• If you want to work on products with real impact and affect millions of people every day then we're looking forward to meeting you - https://www.twilio.com/company/jobs

Oct 2020 – Mar 2021 · 5 mos

• Find | Train | Collaborate | Grow
• I am instrumental in scaling business and delighting the Key stakeholders. Strong believer in equal opportunities!
• Orchestrating Full-cycle recruitment for product engineering groups.
• Partnering with stakeholders to develop recruiting strategies & execution plan.
• Interacting with resource managers, line mangers & business head for getting the requirement clarity, resource requirement strategy & deciding the timeline for the same.
• Efficiently driving the full-life cycle recruitment.
• Formulating effective talent sourcing & screening strategy via competency and behavioral based interviewing practices thus ensuring reduced TTH.
• Driven multiple projects on Diversity Talent Inclusion and Branding , Market intelligence and Talent Mapping.
• Focused approach on process improvements for recruiting & improving candidate overall experience.
• Highly involved in Diversity Hiring.
• Talent Marketing & Engagement Strategies.
• Passionate mentor.

May 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Part of the Global Events Talent Acquisition Team that supports all business units for VMware for domestic and international positions. We are a strategic hiring team, built with data driven best hiring practices. Business units utilize our team when staffing for large initiatives. Data, efficient, results driven.
• VMware (NYSE:VMW), the industry-leading virtualization software company, empowers organizations to innovate and thrive by streamlining IT operations. By virtualizing infrastructure—from the data center to the cloud to mobile devices—VMware enables IT to deliver services from any device, anytime, anywhere.
• VMware is the leader in cloud infrastructure, business mobility and virtualization software. A pioneer in the use of virtualization and policy-driven automation technologies, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center to the virtual workplace, empowering customers with solutions in the software-defined data center to hybrid cloud computing and the mobile workspace.
• See more at: http://www.vmware.com/company/#sthash.tzolubsr.dpuf
• #vmwarecareers : https://careers.vmware.com/

Feb 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Managing event based Recruiting for APJ and identifying strong Technical talent for VMWare.
• Interested in a role @ VMware? Here where you need to be looking up
• https://careers.vmware.com/
• You can also contact me at snirwani@vmware.com
• About VMware:
• VMware (NYSE:VMW), the industry-leading virtualization software company, empowers organizations to innovate and thrive by streamlining IT operations. By virtualizing infrastructure—from the data center to the cloud to mobile devices—VMware enables IT to deliver services from any device, anytime, anywhere. - See more at: http://www.vmware.com/company/#sthash.tzolubsr.dpuf
• VMware is the leader in cloud infrastructure, business mobility and virtualization software. A pioneer in the use of virtualization and policy-driven automation technologies, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center to the virtual workplace, empowering customers with solutions in the software-defined data center to hybrid cloud computing and the mobile workspace.
• With 2014 revenues of $6.04 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers, 75,000 partners, and 18,000+ employees in 120+ locations around the world. At the core of what we do are our employees who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Want to be part of a compassionate community that thrives on architecting what’s next in IT? Learn more at vmware.com/careers

Aug 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

•  Supporting the Bing Ads business function for Microsoft IDC.
•  Account Management – Interact with Senior Management & Hiring Managers for planning the recruitment needs for individual business groups.
•  Negotiations – Negotiate with Hiring Managers & interviewers during the interviewing & selection and recruitment process.
•  Sourcing – involved in sourcing resumes through various channels and responsible for direct hiring for certain positions. (Non Agency/employee referral).
•  Understanding the requirements in detail and plan the sourcing activity accordingly.
•  Shortlist agency and employee referral profiles and take them to closures.
•  Complete ownership of scheduling.
•  Responsible for Hiring Manager and candidate satisfaction.
•  Got exposure to people management with respect to clients, internal employees, interns, hiring managers with respect to recruitment process.
•  Post job requisitions to internal and external job boards and close requisitions once hiring process is complete
•  Ensure new hires are correctly set up in the system. Clear hand off to HR Ops for New Employee Orientation
•  Other Initiatives – Responsible for increasing the diversity ratio for centre as part of the One India HR

Jun 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• My job role includes:
• Responsible for maintaining the entire life cycle of recruitment.
• Handling walk-in drives across Locations in India.
• Coordinating at walk-in drives.
• Direct interaction with stake holders and delivery team, project schedulers regarding requirements.
• Acting as SME for walk-in events.
• Handling recruitments for various IT positions from Middle level to Senior Managerial level.
• Sourcing, Screening, Evaluating, preparing extensive and wide-ranging mapping list and matching qualified candidates to specific job requirements from the client.
• To Understand & Evaluate the client's requirements and give the best services offering as per the profile.
• Sourcing candidates through various sources like job portals, job posting on portals, LinkedIn etc. according to the client's requirement.
• Initial screening and scanning of resume from active database based on the client project requirement.
• Providing complete, accurate, and inspiring information to candidates about the company and position.
• Taking preliminary interviews and briefing the candidates regarding position and responsibilities.
• Follow up's with the candidates regarding acceptance of offer, joining dates and ensure the candidates joining the organization
• Preparing candidates for the interview by providing detailed information about business strategy, job descriptions, and expectation.
• Mentoring new joiners to the team.

Aug 2009 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore