VinayKrishna Kulkarni (He/Him)

Talent Acquisition Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in technology talent acquisition.
  • Expert in niche tech hiring and leadership roles.
  • Drove AI initiatives improving hiring efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist in the Healthcare and Technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingHiring Process OptimizationRecruitmentStakeholder Management

Other Skills

AI for BusinessAI-driven HiringApplicant Tracking SystemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Bulk HiringCampus HiringCandidate ExperienceClient Account ManagementCold CallingData MappingData-driven RecruitingDiversity & InclusionDiversity Program DevelopmentDiversity RecruitingEmployee Engagement

About

Senior Technology Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience hiring niche and senior talent across Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams. Trusted talent partner to VPs and functional heads, delivering high-impact hiring outcomes in product and tech-first environments.Specialize in leadership and hard-to-fill lateral hiring, building teams from zero, and designing scalable hiring strategies that balance speed, quality, and candidate experience. Strong track record in stakeholder advisory, market mapping, and data-driven recruiting decisions.Drove AI enabled hiring initiatives, including an executive-recognized Job Description transformation project that improved role clarity, consistency, and hiring efficiency.Core strengths include niche tech hiring, senior stakeholder partnership, hiring process optimization, pipeline strategy, and TA innovation.

Experience

15 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Athenahealth

2 roles

Talent Acquisition Manager

Promoted

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Strategic Talent Partner supporting senior leaders across Technology, Product, and Data functions; owning end-to-end hiring for niche and leadership roles.
  • Delivered 70–80 hires annually across high-demand tech and product skill sets, partnering closely with VPs and Engineering/Product Heads in a competitive talent market.
  • Reduced time-to-fill by 42.5% (80 → 46 days) through stronger intake calibration, targeted sourcing, and funnel optimization.
  • Maintained 88–90% offer acceptance through structured offer strategy and candidate-centric engagement.
  • Led an organization-wide AI-driven Job Description transformation initiative, improving JD quality and scalability; recognized by executive leadership for business impact.
  • Drive data-led recruiting decisions using market insights, hiring metrics, and pipeline strategy while championing inclusive and bias-aware hiring practices.
Talent PipeliningCandidate ExperienceRelationship BuildingRecruitingTechnical RecruitingSocial Recruiting+9

Lead-Talent Acquistion

Sep 2019Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Spearheading hiring for Engineering, Product & Data Science Business for Bangalore and Pune.
  • Building active pipeline of resumes by active and passive sourcing(LinkedIn, GitHub, Stackoverflow and Boolean Search)
  • Being a talent advisor, advise hiring manager on the best ways to bring in the right talent.
  • Using extensively Workday Application tracking system.
Talent PipeliningTechnical RecruitingWorkday Application Tracking SystemTalent Acquisition

Danske bank

Recruitment Specialist

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for Social media recruitment, sourcing, screening, scheduling, offer negotiations, offer follow up and stake holder management.
  • Collaborate with hiring managers on hiring strategy, organizational development and offer negotiations.
  • Initiate to develop job descriptions with hiring managers by understanding the required skills and background, the impact of the role, and the ideal fit to the team and company.
  • Implemented use of LinkedIn Sourcing, Boolean search logic, streamlining recruitment efforts and concentrating searches on targeted candidates.
  • Have successfully delivered multi-channel hiring whereby maintaining over 77% direct sources and 23% through other sources (like employee referrals, networking and Vendor)
  • Performed targeted candidate searches via employee referrals, networking, LinkedIn, and industry specific associations to maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates
  • Implemented and supported diversity recruiting efforts to meet affirmative action goals.
  • Achieved <30-day time to hire
  • Experienced in stake holder and vendor management.
  • Pioneered college recruitment program and coordinate annual visits to universities across Karnataka.
Social Media RecruitmentSourcingScreeningStakeholder ManagementDiversity RecruitingRecruitment

Wissen technology

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Oct 2017May 2018 · 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Misys

Senior Staffing Specialist

Jul 2014Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for full life cycle recruiting for all functional areas within Misys Financial Software.
  • Good in mapping and building pipeline for all the future requirements.
  • Experienced hiring candidates from Social Media recruitment(LinkedIn,X-ray Search and from Stack-overflow)
  • Extensive hiring accomplished for different hierarchy including niche skills.
  • Driving Campus hiring at premier institutions (IIT’s,NIT and top B-Schools).
  • Achievements
  • Filled 90% of the open needs in 2016.
  • Increased % of referral hires to 30% in 2016 over 17% in 2015
  • Maintained Agency Hires at 4% in 2016 against the set target of 10%.
  • Maintained joining ratio between 87 to 90%.
  • Involved in setting up new product development team at Misys Financial software.
  • Independently conducted Weekend Walk-ins.
  • Appreciated and received awards for new initiatives, stake holder and candidate management.
Full Life Cycle RecruitingSocial Media RecruitmentCampus HiringTalent AcquisitionRecruitment

Replicon

Sr Corporate Recruiter

Jan 2012Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  •  Planning and forecasting resource requirements and analyze the job market, forecast employment needs, develop an annual recruitment plan to support planned/current hiring activity and ensure adherence to Company staffing objectives.
  •  Built Sales, R&D, Project Management and Customer support teams from scratch and ramping up in short time.
  •  Improves organization attractiveness by recommending new policies and practices; monitoring job offers and compensation practices; emphasizing benefits and perks.
  •  Worked with various stakeholders to build channel strategies and cost model for the organization.
  •  Doing Market research, Mapping the talent and head hunting from conventional sources to get the best talent from the market.
  •  Involved in Global hiring to the offices of Replicon.
Resource PlanningMarket ResearchHead HuntingRecruitmentTalent Acquisition

Alp consulting ltd.

2 roles

Sr Analyst

Promoted

Jan 2011Oct 2011 · 9 mos

  • End to End Recruitment
  • Directly responsible for the complete recruitment cycle for executive and lateral hiring (Middle and Senior positions only)
  • Recruitment through job portals, internal databases,generating references,using social networking sites and last but not the least head hunting
  • Handling individual client accounts and regular interaction with the Hiring manager
  • SPOC for all recruitment escalations
  • Maintaining trackers/reports for all requirements and submitting to all hiring managers based on client interview feedback
  • Specialized in Bulk Hiring.
End to End RecruitmentClient Account ManagementRecruitment

Analyst

Nov 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

Education

K.L.E's S.Nijalingappa College

Bachelor of Business Management(B.B.M)

Karnataka State Pre University Board

H.S.C passed

Kendriya Vidyalaya

SSC

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