May 2024 – Sep 2024 · 4 mos

• Interim Contractual assignment.
• Responsible to advise and support building of India GCC.

May 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• I was the 1st TA Person to be hired in the history of GitHub from India. As the Lead of Talent Acquisition (TA) for the India and APAC region, I led the strategic planning and execution of talent acquisition initiatives while actively sourcing and hiring top-tier talent across various levels. We grew the organisation from 80 to 170 in 16-18 months time time frame, Key responsibilities and accomplishments included:
• Leadership Hiring: Successfully hired for senior leadership roles, including Sr. Director, Principal Engineer, and Country Manager for both technical and sales functions.
• Regional Talent Acquisition: Spearheaded the recruitment efforts across multiple countries, including India, Australia, Japan, the UK, Netherlands, and Germany, ensuring the closure of key positions across diverse domains and levels within the international space.
• Project Leadership & Candidate Experience: Led two impactful projects – one focused on Interview Accommodation to enhance the Candidate Experience and another on revamping the Performance Appraisal system for interns, promoting an inclusive environment aligned with the organization’s core values.
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for International Markets: Acted as the sole Talent Acquisition point of contact for international markets, providing expert support in process creation, legal guidance for non-US markets, mentoring of contractors and interview panels, and overseeing campus recruitment efforts in India, compensation benchmarking, budget and cost per hire for business that started from ground zero.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilized recruitment metrics and data analysis to assess the effectiveness of talent acquisition strategies, and optimize hiring processes.This helped VPs to start their teams in India.
• Strategic Advising & Stakeholder Management: Advised senior leadership, including the VP and Sr. Director, on key talent metrics and compensation-related matters.

Feb 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• I joined as the 1st TA member in India and the 2nd employee of Compass India.
• I was responsible for creating and mapping process related to hiring, onboarding, employee engagement, hiring initial Senior members of Engineering, Recruitment and HR.
• Responsible for hiring across the Engineering, Product Management and Design org.
• Managed a team of 4 Recruiters.

Apr 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Worked with senior most leaders at Amazon Hyd, hired for Director, Principal Product, Sr SDEs/Manager.
• Evangelist to the business leaders and helped take decisions related to opening of new centres.
• Identified areas for process improvement and efficiency in the recruitment lifecycle.
• Awarded for executing project that impact the Recruiter efficiency

Dec 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

• I managed a team of 5-6 Sr Recruiter and manager to lead the hiring efforts for Open source tech and SAP team.
• Additionally, I was also responsible for revamping the entire process of hiring that helped identify loopholes and wrong doers in the team.

Mar 2011 – May 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

Dec 2006 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• I was working as Senior Recruiter responsible for Campus Recruits across T-Schools in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa.
• Responsible for managing audit and release of offer letters for all Campus Recruits across India.
• Involved in re-designing of Campus Recruitment process.