Usha Murthy

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in talent acquisition.
  • Led recruitment for Google Cloud India.
  • Expert in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in Talent Acquisition within the Cloud Computing and Technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Other Skills

Human ResourcesSourcingManagementTechnical RecruitingScreeningTeam ManagementCollege RecruitingBenefits NegotiationExecutive SearchVendor ManagementIT RecruitmentScreening ResumesEmployee EngagementDeferred CompensationInternet Recruiting

About

As the Head Recruitment for Google Cloud India, I lead the talent acquisition strategy and execution for one of the fastest growing and most innovative cloud platforms in the world. I bring in 20+ years of experience in building high-performing teams, creating top talent brands, and solving complex global recruiting challenges across various industries, such as Cloud Enterprise, Internet, Software product, fintech, and executive search. My core competencies include developing and managing scalable and robust recruitment processes, designing and executing sourcing strategies, collaborating with global stakeholders, and driving innovation and excellence in hiring. I am passionate about raising the bar for hiring exceptional talent for product development, research labs, and campus and off-campus programs. My mission is to enable the massive growth for cloud business in India by attracting and retaining the best of mindshare in the enterprise tech world.

Experience

21 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Google

Head Recruitment - Google India

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Lead Talent Acquisition for Google Cloud, India centre. Enabling the massive growth for Cloud business in India by bringing in the best of mindshare in the Enterprise Tech world.
Talent AcquisitionRecruitingHuman ResourcesSourcingManagement

Nutanix

Senior Director of Talent Acquisition- APAC & India

Aug 2021Jul 2022 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • What We Do @ Nutanix
  • We strive to delight customers with a simple, flexible, and cost-efficient cloud platform, one that offers freedom of choice and enables true hybrid and multicloud computing. Nutanix is a leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions. We help our customers modernize their datacenters and run applications at any scale.. One simple platform for all your apps, data, and cloud services!
  • Find your next career : https://nutanix.eightfold.ai/careers?&domain=nutanix.com

Paytm

VP Recruitment

Nov 2020Jul 2021 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Servicenow

Head Talent Acquisition, APJ

Jul 2018Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Heading Talent Acquisition for Asia Pacific and Japan. Building and scaling best in class recruitment for the worlds APJ recruitment strategy while influencing and creating Servicenow’s global recruitment strategy.
  • Lead TA function across all seven countries of Servicenow in APJ- India, Singapore, Hongkong, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea
  • Responsible for the overall strategy, execution and success of full cycle recruitment team that supports all LOB’s (Technology, R&D, G&A, Sales, Services & Customer Support)
  • Building strategic programs across the board from Campus Hiring to Executive Hiring to attract, engage, and accelerate hiring top talent at scale with a best in class candidate experience.

Linkedin

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition- APAC R&D

Jun 2014Jul 2018 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Responsible for driving the TA strategy & execution for R&D teams for LinkedIn's Technology and all India University Programs. This includes Product Development, Software Engineering, Engineering Operations and Global Customer Operations teams for the APAC region.
  • Proven leadership in cultivating innovative partnerships (domestic and global), bench marking, developing recruitment programs, creating branding strategies, mentoring/coaching team members at all levels of an organization.
  • Lead a team of talent acquisition managers and recruiters responsible for supporting all of LinkedIn's hiring needs for APAC R&D, technology and Campus hiring.
  • Work with senior leaders, finance and human resource business partners to develop global workforce plans.
  • Influence business leaders on available talent pools, acquisition strategies, competitive landscape and lead-time effectiveness for hiring.
  • Increased team effectiveness by right-sizing the team, aligning with business strategies, focusing on consistent processes and driving results via metrics.
  • Driving Talent Acquisition programs globally, including: Operations and Scale for developing LinkedIn's first consolidated talent metrics packages that enable the business units to better understand execution to hiring plan; innovative hiring practices through web.
  • Partner with HR Business Partners and Talent Management on succession planning, functional gap analysis, and facilitating succession planning decisions to increase business capability.
  • Managing a team University Relations including Campus Programs and Delivery.
  • Develop and execute dynamic strategies that influence innovative practices and collaboration which results in increased University hiring, stronger new hire engagement and overall business satisfaction.
  • Work with project teams to innovate and build new programs/projects- Campus Programs redesign, global give away initiatives, policy and process.

Adobe systems

Manager Talent Selection

Aug 2010Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Area, India

  • Manage the Talent Acquisition for the Technology and Consulting Verticals for Adobe- India.
  • As a staffing leader for the technology hiring resposible to attract and bring in the best talent into Adobe for both Product Development and Consulting Verticals.
  • Experience in Leadership Hiring, University Relations & Hiring, Employment Branding, Hiring for Research Labs.
  • Manage a diverse team spread across locations to fulfill the top talent needs for Adobe.
  • Instrumental in setting up new processes in the Talent selection of full time and contract employees.Key responsibilities include defining and driving talent acquisition strategies across technology hiring, college and executive hiring as well as providing leadership to staffing team, enhancing staffing capabilities, building a cohesive staffing community, driving operational excellence, ensuring a successful and responsive recruitment service across product development, Research hiring and Hiring for the high growth Consulting wings of Adobe as well as direct ownership of the recruitment of Senior Leadership positions.

Oracle financial services

Manager Recruitment

Sep 2006Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Manage Campus Recruitment and recruitment for Consulting Division. Developing the marketing brand for Oracle Financial Services to attract the best talent on all our campuses- Technical (Engineering), Research, and MBA Institutes.
  • Lead the Campus hiring program for each division, advice the business on the campuses to visit, as well as other key decisions on compensation, branding and networking activities for the company to build brand equity and be the preferred employer of choice.
  • Developed and Standardised Process Document for all aspects of the campus recruitment processes from Planning, Pre event preparation, Implementation and Post Event processes
  • Managed product development hiring and niche positions for Oracle Consulting division. Instrumental in designing different compensation structure for consulting hiring to attract the best talent from the industry.

Deutsche bank operations international

HR Specialist

Oct 2005Sep 2006 · 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Being one of the first members of the DB Operations International was instrumental in hiring for some key ramp ups in the Securities and Trust Operations domain.
  • Was responsible to scale up the first few projects from the scratch to an organisation on 900 people.
  • Involved in hiring executives to VP's for all the new projects and designing the compensation and benchmarking for key roles.

Theron international

Assistant Manager

Apr 2004Oct 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • With a thorough focus on Executive Search, managed some key clients like Philips, Infosys, Fidelity.
  • Built and trained a team to take on some key senior searches from top companies.
  • Build resume data bank through headhunting, networking, job portals, and references.
  • Proven ability to research, network and headhunting candidates.

Education

Christ University, Bangalore

MBA — Human Resources

Jan 1999Jan 2001

other

BBM — Finance

Jan 1996Jan 1999

National College

PUC

Jan 1993Jan 1995

Vijaya High School

10'th — Secondary Education

Jan 1990Jan 1993

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