Kajal Khanna
Faridabad
Summary
As a Talent Acquisition professional with over 10 years of experience, I believe successful hiring begins with understanding both the business's talent needs and the candidate's career aspirations. Throughout my career, I have partnered with hiring leaders to identify and attract top technology talent while helping more than 500 professionals secure roles that align with their expertise, ambitions, and long-term career growth. My approach combines strategic hiring, strong stakeholder management, and a commitment to creating meaningful matches that drive success for both organizations and candidates.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Partner - Talent Acquisition
RateGain
Noida
01.2026 - Current
- Lead end-to-end leadership and global hiring across India and international markets, partnering with business leaders to hire senior executives and critical talent.
- Managed global hiring for senior leadership roles including Senior Director (Customer Success), Director (Marketing), Director (Sales), and strategic Technology leadership positions.
- Drive leadership and mid-to-senior level hiring across India for Technology, Product, Data Science, and Data Engineering functions.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to define hiring strategies, build leadership talent pipelines, and deliver high-quality executive and niche talent across geographies.
- Successfully led one of the most business-critical hiring initiatives as the Project Manager for the Sojern team, driving end-to-end recruitment for niche mid-to-senior technology roles. Partnered closely with senior stakeholders to align hiring plans, manage budget discussions, prioritize critical positions, and ensure seamless execution against business goals. Through strong stakeholder management, proactive planning, and disciplined project governance, successfully closed all key open positions while maintaining alignment on timelines, hiring targets, and talent quality.
Manager - Talent Acquisition
Biz2X Platform Pvt Ltd
Noida
07.2025 - Current
- Leadership Hiring: Data Science Head, VP Engineering, EM's & Director of Engineering, Test Architects
- Mid to Senior: Expansion of the Data Science Team & to hire Lead AI/ML engineers, Sr. AI/ML engineers and Sr. Data Scientists
- Focused mentoring to existing team members and solving challenges
- Employer Branding Initiatives
- Leading the Founder's weekly calls
- Stakeholder Management
Associate Manager - People & Culture
Nykaa
Gurgaon
12.2021 - 06.2025
- Leading the engineering hiring for Nykaa (Post Discovery, Ad Platform, Catalog, Nykaa Fashion etc.), Nysaa (beauty expansion in Dubai) and Information Security
- Leadership Hiring (Director and above)
- Employer Branding
- Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management
- Compensation & Negotiations
- Campus Hiring
Technical Recruiter
Airtel X Labs
Gurgaon
08.2019 - 12.2021
- Leading the hiring for Mobile, Backend, Devops, QA/SDET, Data Science, Data Engineering, Full Stack Developer, Frontend and TPM for Airtel X Labs & Wynk Ltd.
- End to End Stakeholder management
- Organizing and managing hiring events
- Building Data and Engineering Team at Wynk (AirtelDigital) from scratch
- Compensation Negotiation
- Employer Branding for Wynk Ltd.
- Vendor Management
Technical Recruiter
Makemytrip
Gurgaon
12.2017 - 08.2021
- End-to-End recruitment
- Salary Negotiations
- Stakeholder Management
- Interacting with hiring managers to brainstorm on open position & hiring roadmap
- Extensively involved in Hiring Drives
- Build networks to find qualified passive candidates
- Successfully publishing weekly reports for Stakeholders on hiring progress
- Employer Branding
- Actively involved in building the career website from scratch
- Vendor Management
- Campus Hiring
- Social media traction for campus (Linkedin posts, pre-placement talk)
- Campus hiring from leading NITs, IITs, and Tier-1/Tier-2 Engineering colleges. Also designing, developing & executing the offer and post-offer candidate engagement process for all new grads & interns
- Identifying and maintaining good relationship with all the colleges and universities' placement officers and coordinators to get the best possible dates/slots
- Present data and share insights on the performance of campus placed students
Consultant
Randstad
Gurgaon
01.2017 - 12.2017
- End-to-end recruitment
- Interacting with the clients to gain a good understanding of their mission critical, hard to fill positions from both a technical and soft skill requirements and then provide a few highly screened, selected candidates for the hiring managers to review
- Searching and identifying potential candidates
- Served the requirements of different Client industries like IT, Telecom, Product based company etc.
- Taking short listing of candidate from client, arranging candidate's interview, follow-up with the client regarding the feedback of the interview.
- Salary Negotiations
- Working on Bond Adapt
- Account Manager for 3 IT Based Firms
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Post Graduation in Human Resources
New Delhi Institute of Management
New Delhi, India01-2017
Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Bachelors in Human Resources
Delhi University
New Delhi, India01-2015
Skills
- Global Talent Management
- Leadership Hiring
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Employer Branding
- Compensation Negotiation
- Campus Recruitment
Skills
Expert, Expert, Expert, Expert, Expert, Experienced
Timeline
Partner - Talent Acquisition
RateGain
01.2026 - Current
Manager - Talent Acquisition
Biz2X Platform Pvt Ltd
07.2025 - Current
Associate Manager - People & Culture
Nykaa
12.2021 - 06.2025
Technical Recruiter
Airtel X Labs
08.2019 - 12.2021
Technical Recruiter
Makemytrip
12.2017 - 08.2021
Consultant
Randstad
01.2017 - 12.2017
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Post Graduation in Human Resources
New Delhi Institute of Management
Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Bachelors in Human Resources
Delhi University