Varun Hemaraj

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building high-performing tech teams.
  • Proven track record in strategic talent acquisition.
  • Strong focus on candidate experience and engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist in the Tech industry with a focus on strategic hiring.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionLeadership HiringRecruiting Strategy

Other Skills

Benefits NegotiationCRMConsultingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Diversity HiringE-commerceEmployee EngagementEngineeringExecutive SearchHiringHuman Resources (HR)IT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewingManagement

About

On a journey to create conducive experiences for potential candidates. A seasoned talent acquisition expert and an ambassador at CRED who is constantly looking out for passionate people who want to make a difference. CRED is a fast-paced environment with employees who strive for excellence in all that they do. Obsession for perfection with an outcome-based approach is what all of us have in common. Every employee has their skin in the game and we run on the principle of trust. We constantly strive to deliver the best and quality is never a compromise.

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Postman

Senior Talent Partner

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Cred

2 roles

Lead Talent Partner

Oct 2024Jan 2025 · 3 mos · On-site

  • As the first Tech Recruiter for the company, I built and scaled multiple high-performing teams from the ground up, including Backend, Frontend, SDET, Data Science, Product Analytics, Risk Analytics, Mobile, and Infrastructure.
  • Led strategic talent acquisition efforts, ensuring alignment with business goals to drive growth and innovation across the organization.
  • Collaborated closely with leadership to understand evolving business requirements, ensuring that talent acquisition efforts were always aligned with organizational priorities.
  • Played a key role in leadership hiring, identifying and placing senior leaders in critical positions to strengthen teams and support long-term strategic objectives.
  • Prioritized candidate experience by driving the team to provide a world-class interview journey, guiding candidates with sufficient context, building familiarity and rapport, and ensuring comprehensive closure by sharing detailed and constructive feedback.
  • Developed and optimized hiring processes, increasing efficiency and ensuring rapid, high-quality hiring aligned with business needs.
  • Was a core member of the input-driven mechanism to enhance recruitment predictability, driving more accurate forecasting and improving decision-making across the hiring process.
  • Mentored and guided the hiring team, cultivating a high-performance culture and continuously improving recruitment strategies.
lateral hiringEngineeringStrategic PlanningLeadership hiringHuman Resources (HR)Recruiting+25

Founding Member - Talent Partner

Oct 2018Oct 2024 · 6 yrs · On-site

  • Responsibilities include but are not limited to
  • Executing the recruiting strategy: including branding, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.
  • Developing proactive sourcing strategies to engage and nurture the pipeline of passive talent and take extraordinary steps to approach people from diverse backgrounds.
  • Responsible for the entire life-cycle of Tech Recruitment at CRED
  • A talent advisor to the business, guiding team members through the process of constructive feedback.
lateral hiringEngineeringStrategic PlanningLeadership hiringHuman Resources (HR)Recruiting+25

Flipkart

TA Partner

Feb 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • RPO

Wenger & watson inc

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Feb 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Wenger & Watson, a leading Executive Search Firm got established in the year 2002. Since then,
  • it has emerged as a leading Human Resource Solution provider offering practical long-term
  • solutions to its clients in the areas of Recruitment, such as permanent staffing, contract staffing
  • and Consulting along with compensation survey and Corporate Training.
  • I joined as a Consultant working primarily on Passive talent pool mapping/ hunting, and
  • different Headhunting techniques.
  • Hands-on contribution (through LinkedIn and other social media platforms) working on Junior
  • to senior leadership mandates with Amazon, Flipkart, Expedia, Go-Jek, Philips and few startups
  • like Halodoc, Playment, Knowledge Podium across the locations (in India).
  • RPO Programs:
  • 3) Program
  • Client: Flipkart (February 2017 - September 2018)
  • Exclusively worked on multiple requirements like
  • Backend/frontend developers(SDE2/SDE2/SDE3/SDE4) and leadership positions like
  • Engineering Manager, Tech Architect and Director of Engineering.
  • 2) Program
  • Client: Playment ( November 2017 - February 2018(3months)
  • Playment helps AI companies to generate human labeled training data at scale. Playment
  • provide a training infrastructure for machines to see, think and act like humans.
  • Deputed from Wenger & Watson as a " TA Partner " to scale up the Technology team
  • at Playment .
  • I was closely working with the Co-founders and Technology head on Leadership Positions, Product Managers roles, Frontend/Backend Developers, and SDET. I was responsible to streamline the process of recruitment within the organization.
  • 1) Program
  • Client: Philips healthcare (April 2017 - May 2017 (2 months)
  • I was Deputed from Wenger & Watson as an "Onsite Recruiter" worked on multiple requirements
  • from junior to mid-senior roles like Technical specialists/Sr Technical specialists
  • (Backend/frontend Developers, Manual/Automation testers)

Business fundamental consulting

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jun 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

  • A Versatile Recruiter & Mission-focused Professional with wide experience into IT-
  • Recruitment&Non IT-Recruitment (full-time positions), Talent Acquisition, Corporate
  • Training Co-ordinations.

Education

PES

Bachelor’s Degree

Jan 2011Jan 2014

St joseph indian high school

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