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Competencies
Demonstrated experience with Talent Acquisition Strategy.
Demonstrated experience with Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning.
Demonstrated experience with Senior & Leadership Hiring.
Demonstrated experience with Technical Recruiting.
Demonstrated experience with Engineering & Product Hiring.
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Experience
Principal Recruiter
Owned end-to-end Talent Acquisition strategy for the critical Machine Learning Experience business unit, hiring Software Engineering and Product Management talent.. Served as a strategic TA partner to senior stakeholders, providing market intelligence, talent pipeline analytics, hiring-funnel reviews, and data-driven recommendations to support workforce and hiring priorities.. Developed recruiting analytics and executive dashboards to identify funnel gaps, improve hiring visibility, and optimize recruiting performance.. Led the Global Mobility recruiting program end-to-end, creating governance and eligibility frameworks and aligning Recruiting, HRBP, Hiring Managers, and Immigration through offer execution despite a company-wide hiring freeze.. Program-managed campus-hire onboarding with Engineering leadership, including a month-long technical curriculum designed to accelerate new-hire ramp-up and improve the early candidate-to-employee experience.. Championed practical AI adoption in recruiting through Gemini-based recruiter summaries and AI-powered interview preparation guides.
Manager – Talent Acquisition & People Operations
Managed a team of 3 recruiters while scaling company headcount across Engineering, Product, Analytics, Merchandising, and business functions.. Managed recruiter capacity and requisition allocation based on business priorities, role complexity, hiring timelines, and recruiter strengths to ensure effective hiring delivery.. Established regular 1:1s, pipeline reviews, and recruiting performance discussions to drive accountability, continuous feedback, and recruiter development.. Served as an escalation point for complex stakeholder and hiring challenges, coaching recruiters on stakeholder management, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, and offer closure.. Partnered closely with founders, site leadership, and business leaders on workforce needs, hiring priorities, employee experience, compensation and role changes, performance processes, and employee lifecycle operations.. Served as India SPOC for the Lever-to-Greenhouse ATS migration; standardized templates, interview plans, scorecards, and workflows.. Built scalable recruiting processes and hiring workflows to improve stakeholder visibility, recruiter consistency, and hiring execution across functions.. Rebuilt onboarding and offboarding operations from fragmented manual trackers into structured workflows with clear stakeholder ownership and repeatable processes.. Coordinated end-to-end offboarding, including exit documentation, knowledge transfer, asset clearance, and Full & Final settlement coordination.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Owned recruitment for critical engineering leadership roles, including Staff/Senior Staff Engineer, Senior Engineering Manager, and Lead Engineer.. Designed and executed leadership-hiring strategies, partnering closely with senior engineering stakeholders to close critical talent gaps.. Led a Talent Acquisition process audit for leadership hiring, identified operational gaps, and implemented improvements.
Lead Recruiter
Led leadership hiring for the core Engineering organization alongside IC hiring, across SDE II–V, Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, and Director of Engineering roles.. Managed and mentored a team of 3 junior recruiters and coordinators, embedding recruiting best practices and creating accountability around hiring delivery.. Led Engineering hiring for 70+ positions annually.. Launched an employee referral program and 30/45/60-day post-offer engagement program.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Client – Wipro Technologies: Owned end-to-end recruitment for Cyber & Risk Security Services, hiring specialized talent across Identity & Access Management, OIM, SailPoint, CyberArk, NIM, and firewall technologies.. Client – Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.: Partnered with recruiters and hiring managers on sourcing strategies for Taleo Consultant, Oracle ERP, and Oracle DBA skills.