Apr 2024 – Oct 2024 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Sep 2022 – Jul 2023 · 10 mos

• Managed end-to-end hiring for both North America and EMEA regions
• Led and mentored a team of 10 recruiters, 4 Talent sourcers and coordinators, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Implemented data-driven decision-making processes, leveraging recruitment analytics to optimize sourcing channels and interview techniques.
• Collaborated with department heads and senior leadership to align staffing needs with the company's strategic goals.
• Maintained an 85% conversion rate, consistently ensuring successful candidate placements.
• University Hiring
• Handled university recruitment for NAMER region, encompassing the entire process of identifying and enticing high-caliber students from renowned universities.
• Hired overall 30 interns and 40 full time engineers
• Developed a comprehensive playbook that outlines a step-by-step approach to university and internship hiring, beginning with candidate identification and concluding with the rollout of offers
• Collaborated closely with project managers across Uber US, effectively aligning candidates with business units that match their profiles and preferences.

Feb 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Took complete ownership of the recruitment process for building the Uber Eats India engineering team during its transition from New York to Hyderabad. This involved assuming full responsibility for identifying, attracting, and selecting the appropriate talent to fulfill the team's requirements. Growing it from 0 to 85 members within a span of two years. This included recruiting engineers and organizational leaders.
• Took charge of leadership recruitment efforts across Uber, with a specific focus on financial products.
• Recruited over 14 engineering leaders and senior managers, including the first women engineering leaders for Hyderabad.
• Handled more than 70% of the recruitment projects at the APAC level. These projects emphasized diversity and inclusion, candidate and stakeholder experience, interviewer calibration.
• Implemented lead generation drives and referral mining strategies, which resulted in a hiring boost of two times the previous rate.
• Effectively managed over 10 recruitment agencies, ensuring a steady pipeline of candidates for more than 30 open positions.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

• Facilitated recruitment for highly specialized technical positions across all verticals.
• Engaged in consultative recruitment approaches, partnering closely with key stakeholders and leadership.
• Orchestrated the sourcing and management of candidate pipelines for an average of 20 roles concurrently within the Finance Engineering domain.
• Pioneered the implementation of streamlined processes to optimize time-to-hire, while fostering a robust and diverse talent pool.
• Diligently assessed and evaluated 400-800 weekly online applications, maintaining a rigorous and meticulous approach.
• Forged partnerships with internal sourcing teams and external agencies, effectively fulfilling high-volume requisitions.

Mar 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Chennai Area, India

• 40000 customers across the globe that trust Freshworks to run their business. This makes Freshworks one of the fastest growing company in the SAAS space.
• Closely worked with the Founder and Sr. VP to Scale Freshworks from
• 100 to 500 employees in 2yrs time.
• Hired across all the Freshworks products that focusses on - Customer
• Experience, Sales & Marketing, IT Service and HR management.
• Organized campus interviews pan India for engineering and product /
• program manager roles.

Jan 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• CaratLane is an Indian physical and online jewellery retailer with its office and stores across India.
• Served as a full life cycle recruiting professional for this amazingly fast paced e-commerce and retail firm by maintaining full accountability for effective and efficient staffing. Handled an overflowing desk with 20-35 positions at a time.
• Built the engineering team from ground up
• Worked closely with the founder and Co-founder to scale the leadership team.
• Full cycle recruiting across Engineering, Marketing and operations.
• Stakeholder Management
• Employer Branding

Feb 2014 – Dec 2014 · 10 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Jun 2013 – Jan 2014 · 7 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Jun 2009 – Nov 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Chennai