Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Talent Acquisition leader with 15+ years of extensive experience in building up technology teams from scratch for product organizations. With experience in consulting and managing hiring for multiple global firms, I have hired talents from across geographies. Started my career as a Recruiter with JK Management Consultants, Live Connections where handling multiple clients and was hiring for multiple business units. At Amazon played a key role in seeding up new product development teams in location like Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Singapore. Managing Mid-Senior, Leadership roles, Niche hiring roles for the renowned Amazon’s products like Kindle, Kindle Tablet, Fire TV, Alexa, Kuiper. I was responsible for Managing leadership, Niche, Diversity hiring for all of Devices team in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai. I was managing hiring for Hard to Fill Tech roles which includes Science, Sr. Engg hiring for Amazon Product development organizations. Extensive experience: * People Management * Recruiting Strategy * Scaling business by hiring talents across levels * Hiring Projection & Hiring Plan * Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Hiring * PWD & PRIDE Hiring * Project Management * Recruitment Branding & Budgeting * Talent Mapping, Market Insights study * Vendor Management * Candidate Experience & Engagement * Hands on Sourcing (Conventional & via Social media channels) * Had experience in hiring for Hard to Fill Tech roles, Strategic roles, Leadership roles, Non-Tech roles.
Working as Sr. Talent Acquisition leader at Amazon Development Center India Pvt Ltd., Joined Amazon as Recruiter through Wipro payroll and part of the TA team which built the product engineering team in Chennai from scratch. ❖ Played a key role in seeding up new product development teams in location like Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai and Singapore. ❖ Identifying and creating sustainable talent pool and implementing talent acquisition strategies for leadership, mid-level, and Niche hiring. ❖ Had People Management experience. ❖ Leads Talent initiative to improve Diversity, PWD, PRIDE, and Talent mobility across region. ❖ Recruiting leadership roles for the Amazon content and devices team. I hire for the Engineering, software development, Program Management, Product Management Operations and Business teams spanning across locations within India and Singapore for Amazon’s products like Kindle, Kindle Tablet, Fire TV, Echo. ❖ Mentoring and providing guidance to the team to ensure operational efficiency. ❖ Driven External Branding events like Grace Hopper Conference, Great Indian Developer Summit, AMAZEWIT. ❖ Project lead for executing Employee Referral campaigns, Brown Bag sessions, SDE ll Boot-camp, Diversity hiring programs, Hackathons, Tech Open houses, Sourcathon, Talent Fulfillment Centre, Technical Connect Program. ❖ Strategic planning, re-designing and implementation of recruitment process. ❖ Had experience in Talent Intelligence study, Market Mapping exercise.
Experienced in full life-cycle of a placement which include: Staffing- (Walk-in, Telephonic, Portals, Net working, Head Hunting, Job Posting, Referrals, Bulk mails etc). Successful hiring of software professionals at all levels pertaining to different areas such as Banking, Telecom, Insurance, Product based Company. Proficient in full life cycle placements which involve requirements gathering; writing job descriptions; deep web sourcing through Job portals like Naukri, Monster, Times Jobs, Jobs Ahead, Career Builder sourcing through screening and qualification of candidates; negotiating and closing a placement, joining formalities so on
Experienced in full life-cycle of a placement which include: Staffing- (Walk-in, Telephonic, Portals, Net working, Head Hunting, Job Posting, Referrals, Bulk mails etc). Successful hiring of software professionals at all levels pertaining to different areas such as Banking, Telecom, Insurance, Product based Company.