JAFAR AHEMED SHAIK
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-driven Talent Acquisition Advisor building high‐impact engineering teams for global tech companies and high‐growth startups. Strong background at Wayfair & Walmart, focusing on talent strategy and stakeholder engagement. Experience in Executive & Leadership hiring.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Recruiter
WAYFAIR IDC
Bangalore
12.2024 - Current
- Leadership Technical Recruiter - responsible for hiring top tier tech leaders (SEM & Associate Director) & (Architects & Sr Architects) - L4 L5 (out of L6 levels)
- Focused on identifying and attracting top technical talent for executive roles
- Talent strategy & planning
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Talent analytics, Process optimisation
- ATS transition - Greenhouse => Avature, Paradox, Workday
- Coordinated Avature ATS implementation in India, ensuring smooth transition and user adoption.
- Handling USA Visa applicants & working closely with Erickson Immigration Group
Senior TA Advisor
WALMART IDC
Bangalore
08.2017 - 11.2024
- End to end recruitment process, Talent strategy development, Stakholder management, Team mentoring, Marketing intelligence competitive analysis & Compliance best practices
- Facilitated intake meetings with hiring managers to clarify business needs and requirements.
- Efficiently lead preparing & analysing data metrics report to drive informed decision making & actionable insights based on Target companies, TTO, TTF, source, diversity, conversion & decline ratios
- Partnered with across BU's - US tech (core services - retail & emerging tech, Adtech), H&W, SAMs club & Platforms team- (EBS, Torbit, global data)
- Led recruitment efforts for international technology business unit from 2019-24
- Hired senior levels IN5 IN6 - Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, and Sr EM I & Sr EM II
- Knowledge of compensation metrics - Quartile, Compa ratio & PIR
- Contributed to Walmart Labs transformation and the ramping of hiring growth.
Senior Recruitment Specialist (Team Manager)
ZYOIN
Bangalore
05.2012 - 04.2017
- Joined as Associate TA, promoted to Sr Associate TA, Lead TA, Principal TA and Sr Recruitment specialist
- Team manager - Managed team of 5 members, performed with IC targets and client account management
- Technical recruitment from entry to leadership level - startup hiring
- Managed VC company (blume ventures) portfolio and worked closely with startup co-founders in successfully onboarding candidates to the active open positions
- Handled 2 core startup clients (Applaud solutions & Gsoft) in setting their operations in India and tech team from scratch
- Managed recruiter training and deployment program over six months.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Microbiology
M.G.R College
MBA - Marketing & HR
Nimra College of Business Management
Skills
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Instahyre
- Online job portals
- Hirist / IIMjobs
- Referrals
- ATS @Wayfair - Avature, Greenhouse
- ATS @Walmart - Workday, Zwayam, Kanexa
- AI Tools - Paradox, Recruit'em, SourceGPT
Certification
• ChatGPT for HR - Udemy
• Recruiter - Lean Six Sigma Certificate - Udemy
• AI in Recruitment: TA Tools - Udemy (pursuing)
• Recruiter - Lean Six Sigma Certificate - Udemy
• AI in Recruitment: TA Tools - Udemy (pursuing)
Projects & Initiatives @Walmart
- Spearheaded the Back to work women program (Respark), July 2024 - with successfully onboarded 8 new joiners
- Led layoff candidate sourcing strategy & successfully hired caliber techies, Udaan, Github, Chargebee 2023
- Submitted competitors compensation project, Q4 2022
- Recommended & implemented centralised hiring strategy with Intl tech teams for Staff, Principal & Sr Manager I&II, 2020
- Tested Suggested Instahyre tool, 2018
- Successfully created and implemented - Employee referral & Diversity hiring programs
- Served as interview panel responsible for evaluating potential recruiters for the organisation
- Volunteered in employer branding events like GIDS, AIM & Walmart event Converge to represent Career booth
Accomplishments
My Achievements @Walmart: Awarded a special equity grant, "Thanks for Making the Difference," in May 2021.
My Achievements @Zyoin:
Consistently maintained a position among the top 5 across the organization (Zyoin 40+ recruiters) in revenue generation.
Star Performer - Q3 2016, Q4 2015, Q1, Q2 & Q3 2014, all 4 quarters of 2013. Marvelous Multitasker Award - October 16.
Amazing Dedication Award - July 16.
Star Performer of the Month - September 12.
My Achievements @Zyoin:
Consistently maintained a position among the top 5 across the organization (Zyoin 40+ recruiters) in revenue generation.
Star Performer - Q3 2016, Q4 2015, Q1, Q2 & Q3 2014, all 4 quarters of 2013. Marvelous Multitasker Award - October 16.
Amazing Dedication Award - July 16.
Star Performer of the Month - September 12.
Skills hired
@Wayfair - Java, Fullstack, Machine learning, Observability, Reliability, Data platforms
@Walmart - Java, UI, Fullstack, MERN, Big Data, data science, AI/ML, iOS, Android, SDET, DevOps, Go, Sterling, UX, and product management.
@Zyoin - BE, FE, Fullstack, MEAN, MERN, iOS, Android, SDET, DevOps, PHP, Python, RoR, embedded c, Microsoft tech, SAP, Oracle ebs, SFDC, Product manager, Project manager, few Non IT roles like HRBP, Finance AR AP
Timeline
Senior Recruiter
WAYFAIR IDC
12.2024 - Current
Senior TA Advisor
WALMART IDC
08.2017 - 11.2024
Senior Recruitment Specialist (Team Manager)
ZYOIN
05.2012 - 04.2017
Bachelor of Science - Microbiology
M.G.R College
MBA - Marketing & HR
Nimra College of Business Management