Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
With over 10 years of experience in Technology Recruitment, I’ve built and scaled high-performing teams across leading global organizations — IBM, EY, Google, Zeta Suite, Meta (Facebook), and Apollo.io. I’m deeply passionate about continuous learning and believe that curiosity across disciplines builds stronger, more adaptable professionals. My expertise spans Technology hiring (Engineering, Product, Design) and Business hiring (Analytics, Program Management), with hands-on experience driving Security and DevOps recruitment across all levels up to leadership. The core of my career has centered around building and executing end-to-end talent acquisition strategies, from recruitment marketing and funnel optimization to scalable hiring solutions across Engineering, Product, and Data Science domains. Gained enriched experience in delivering talent acquisition decisions to manage the talent cadre and pipeline in alignment with the agreed Talent Mix of the organization. Pivotal in conducting sourcing activities to fill open positions, designing recruitment and selection processes (resume screening, screening calls, interviews, offer negotiations etc.), reviewing employment applications and counseling candidate on corporate benefits, salary, and corporate environment. Experienced in end-to-end talent acquisition — managing pipelines, driving sourcing & hiring strategies, and designing efficient recruitment processes. Notable highlights include building Zeta’s DevOps team from 0–65 within a year, building the Product team in India from scratch at Apollo and scaling teams Product deisgn and Analytics teams at JioHotstar, optimizing cost-effective hiring channels, and strengthening vendor partnerships and employer branding. Acted as a brand ambassador at industry events to build candidate networks. Proficient in ATS tools like Lever, Greenhouse, Ghire, and FBR (Facebook Recruiting).
- Leading Analytics, Devices and Campus Hiring - People Management - Hiring for Data Engineering, Data Scientists, TPMs, Computer Vision - Machine learning engineers, & Finance roles
- Leading Talent Acquisition for Product, Design, and Tech functions, building high-performing teams that power JioHotstar’s large-scale OTT ecosystem. - Partnering with Product, Engineering, and Business leadership to define hiring strategy,competency frameworks, and process excellence initiatives. - Played a key role in integrating TA systems and workflows during the Viacom18 + JioCinema merger, ensuring a unified and scalable recruitment process. - Driving data-driven hiring, improving velocity, quality, and candidate experience across Product, Analytics, and Tech verticals. - Focused on org design, process optimization, and leadership hiring to strengthen JioHotstar’s core tech and product capabilities. - Worked on building Engineering , Security and Program Management teams at Erstwhile (JioCinema/Viacom 18)
- Hiring Engineering & Product roles - People Management - Mentoring other recruiters and coordinators in the team - Managing different vendors and RPOs and keeping a check on their performance and delivery - Working on different recruiting and sourcing strategies and adapt to what works best for every team - Hired Senior to Staff Backends, Sr. Fullstacks and Senior to Principal Product Managers so far - Complete ownership of requisitions given - Working on End to End Recruitment - Worked with different stake holders including CTO and CPOs - Experienced in various Souring tools like Linkedin, Instahyre, Open Search, Big Shyft, Recruitin.net, Enthelo, Seekout, github, Stackoverflow -Working with Greenhouse, Gem currently and have worked on different ATS tools like Lever,FBR, Ghire earlier
- Throughout my tenure, my responsibility has been to provide oversight on the development and implementation of talent acquisition strategies, programs, processes and technology to support talent - Meanwhile, I source, screen, and hire technical specialists to fill Product Management positions in Meta at different levels - Manage different stakeholders at a time - Accountable for IC 5+ hiring for London and cross-border remote countries (Ireland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and France) -Further, my emphasis has always been on developing headhunting strategies for highly visible projects, building a compelling market intelligence through data, providing sourcing recommendation to business leaders and being agile to pivot searches to attract appropriate candidates to meet both current and forecasted opportunities. Lead all aspects of recruitment lifecycle, from requirement gathering, creating requisition, job posting, sourcing, coordination, debriefs to offer process - Moreover, I serve as a part of International Product Management Recruiting, and hire senior level Individual Contributors, who are Product Managers - As Product Sourcer/Recruiter, I look for Product Managers experienced in AI/ML, Ads, Product Generalist, Enterprise, Customer Experience, Central Integrity & E-Commerce
- I joined as Talent Acquisition Specialist and rose to the position of Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist in Jul’21 accountable for end-to-end recruitment along with 11 stakeholders and new bees' in the team. Built the entire team of DevOps/SRE from scratch (right from DevOps 1 to Manager DevOps). -Partnered with business leader for the development and execution of hiring plan. - Partnered with relevant vendors and RPO's and managed their work and delivery -As DevOps Recruiter, I looked for candidates skilled in Automation, certified in AWS & Kubernetes, and experience working onTerraForm, Github, CICD Pipelines, and Jenkins. - Previously, as Talent Acquisition Specialist, I collaborated with stakeholders, vendors for priority roles. I was involved in hiring for various roles at all levels on Back-end Engineering, DevOps, Quality Assurance, SDET and Front-end. -Devised hiring strategies for multiple roles across locations with Hiring Managers. -Besides, I worked with Lever ATS for candidate pipeline. Mentored new peers in the team. Contributed towards talent acquisition process from screening to offer negotiations.
- Hiring for various niche roles on Backend Engineering, DevOps, Quality Assurance, SDET and Frontend Focused on Dev Hiring - Devising hiring strategies for multiple roles across locations - Hiring across all levels from SDE 1 to Engineering Managers - Screening to Offer negotiations - Involved highly in Stakeholder management & Vendor Management