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Kiran Ksheersagar

Kiran Ksheersagar

Hyderabad

Summary

Social Media Talent Acquisition professional with over 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition, management, and stakeholder engagement. Achieved 3X growth in engineering team size at a fast-growing food tech company, and 2.5X growth for India’s fastest-growing digital wallet platform and online payment company. Currently supporting a global financial technology and professional services firm by driving strategic recruitment and diversity initiatives to scale their engineering team.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager TA

Arcesium
Hyderabad
01.2023 - Current
  • Working closely with the hiring managers for requirement gathering, understanding business needs, and providing hiring plans post-market research.
  • Candidate engagement: post-offer follow-up until the candidate joins.
  • Managing end-to-end background verification (BGV) for tech hires, overseeing new hire relocation eligibility, maintaining and updating open position reports, and ensuring complete audit readiness and compliance for Talent Acquisition processes.
  • Having experience in recruiting for various departments, including Engineering, Infrastructure, Machine Learning, and SRE.
  • Monitoring and continuously improving key recruitment metrics that have an impact on business, identifying trends and gaps to enable quick and easy decision-making across different stakeholders.
  • Conceptualized and spearheaded Arcesium's gender diversity hiring initiative by partnering with HackerEarth and conducting She_Codes_2022, which saw over 2,800 women coders participate across the country.
  • Cultivating a collaborative environment within the team, fostering knowledge sharing and best practices, resolving team conflicts, and ensuring the timely career progression of recruiters.
  • Trained junior recruiters on best practices in sourcing and candidate engagement techniques.
  • Managed and successfully closed critical leadership roles, including VP–RTI and SPE, within established timelines.
  • Worked on two critical projects: The Corporate Alumni Program and AI sourcing platforms.

Senior Specialist

Arcesium
06.2022 - 12.2022
  • Managed end-to-end technology hiring for multiple business verticals.
  • Proven ability to deliver results by balancing the quality of hire and the speed of hiring.
  • Collaborating by building meaningful partnerships with businesses and influencing stakeholders at all levels to drive hiring goals and program outcomes.
  • Delivering the best possible candidate experience for every candidate.
  • Designing and implementing hiring strategies with the business, effective stakeholder management, and working on continuous recruitment process improvements.
  • Actively working on TA Audit, bi-monthly reporting, and analysis of various metrics.

Lead Recruiter

PhonePe
Bengaluru
03.2020 - 06.2021
  • Handle talent acquisition efforts in building the engineering team of PhonePe across verticals such as payments, Nexus, online merchant, money management, et al.
  • Managed the complete Pune dev center, overseeing diverse engineering roles, including back end, front end, mobile, SDET, L1, and data scientist for Bangalore, with experience ranging from 3 to 15 years.
  • Utilized Applicant Tracking System to streamline candidate sourcing and tracking processes.
  • Developed onboarding programs to enhance new employee integration into the company culture.
  • Fulfilled all hiring requirements of stakeholders and company according to established metrics and SLAs, including diversity ratios, sourcing mix, conversion ratios, timely delivery, and resource quality.
  • Improving talent assessments, achieving overall process compliance, and enhancing business engagements and stakeholder management.
  • Grew team size from 46 to 114 individuals by implementing targeted hiring initiatives.
  • In addition to leading the Pune Dev Center and Data Science, I handled TA efforts in hiring Engineering Architects for the Bangalore Dev Center.

Senior Recruiter

Swiggy (Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd)
Bengaluru
07.2018 - 03.2020
  • I work closely with the CTO, co-founder, and VPs to drive end-to-end talent acquisition needs across all teams and close the position within the given TAT.
  • Doing events across locations and closing the complete loop of the candidate in a single go, including offer negotiation, and offer release.
  • I have closed 94 positions without vendor support in 1 year (34 SDE 1, 48 SDE 2, 8 SDE 3, 2 SDE 4, and 1 Architect).
  • Involved in biweekly meetings with the Head of Engineering and managers for the current requirement status.
  • I will generate a quarterly event calendar, circulate it to the business and vendors, and ensure the event happens on specific dates.
  • I have taken charge of a critical role and held a town hall meeting with the Head of Engineering on January 27, 2019.
  • I have received an award for best tech recruiter.
  • In addition to lateral recruitment, I also drive campus recruitment efforts for the engineering division at Swiggy. This involves a whole gamut of getting Swiggy to be an employer of choice at top engineering institutes in the country.
  • Apart from Talent Acquisition, I undertake the Candidate Experience charter for the TA team at Swiggy. This involves driving behavioral changes within the TA team to ensure team members adhere to best practices, to provide a great experience to candidates being interviewed at Swiggy.
  • Closely track key metrics of the team, like TAT for feedback to candidates, hospitality, recruiter responsiveness, interviewer experience, timeliness, basic interview hygiene, among other parameters, and publish the reports to the management team to drive continuous improvement and feedback.

Recruiter, Senior Recruiter, Delivery Head

New Era India Consultancy
Hyderabad
12.2015 - 03.2018
  • To understand the requirements coming directly from the Resource Manager.
  • Extensive use of Internet recruiting tools from various job boards (e.g., LinkedIn, Naukri, Google).
  • Explore all channels of recruitments like references, Head Hunting, Cold Calling, for sourcing right candidates.
  • Sourcing candidates and sharing them with the technical panel or manager for feedback and shortlisting.
  • Handling end-to-end recruitment processes for all clients. (Microsoft, Amazon, Flipkart, D.E. Shaw, etc.)
  • Leading a team of four people, and was responsible for their appraisals.
  • Coordinated interviews between hiring managers and candidates effectively.

RPO – Recruiting Process Outsourcing From Newera

Amazon
Hyderabad
02.2017 - 09.2017
  • I was handling the end-to-end recruitment process for SDM roles.
  • Interacting with recruiters across different business units, understanding their requirements, and delivering recruitment drives.
  • Sourcing, screening, uploading, and getting the feedback of the candidates.
  • Made 5 SDMs and 5 SDE 2 offers, and generated 2X the revenue for the organization during my sting.
  • Maintained cordial, professional, and personal relations with the management team to frequently keep in touch with the business.

Recruiter

Wisdom IT Services India Pvt Ltd (Wisdom Jobs)
Hyderabad
11.2014 - 11.2015
  • Understand the requirement, and source the profiles as per the client’s requirement.
  • Directly screening and sourcing candidates from Databank and job sites.
  • Responsible for ensuring quality of delivery by screening and shortlisting resumes before sharing them with the client.
  • Sourcing profiles and headhunting candidates as per the client's requirements.
  • Use all methodologies of sourcing, such as headhunting, social networking like LinkedIn, and employee referrals.
  • Get the right profiles matching the requirements in the given time.

Education

International MBA - HRM

University of Sunderland
London
01.2013

EDEXCEL Level 7 - HRM

Ethames Graduate School
Hyderabad
01.2012

Skills

  • Talent acquisition
  • Candidate engagement
  • Recruitment metrics
  • Stakeholder management
  • Diversity hiring
  • Data analysis

Hobbies and Interests

Cricket, Football, Formula One, Foosball, Snooker and Tennis

Certification

  • Find the right talent faster.
  • Access a wider talent pool.
  • Engage with active candidates.

Timeline

Manager TA

Arcesium
01.2023 - Current

Senior Specialist

Arcesium
06.2022 - 12.2022

Lead Recruiter

PhonePe
03.2020 - 06.2021

Senior Recruiter

Swiggy (Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd)
07.2018 - 03.2020

RPO – Recruiting Process Outsourcing From Newera

Amazon
02.2017 - 09.2017

Recruiter, Senior Recruiter, Delivery Head

New Era India Consultancy
12.2015 - 03.2018

Recruiter

Wisdom IT Services India Pvt Ltd (Wisdom Jobs)
11.2014 - 11.2015

International MBA - HRM

University of Sunderland

EDEXCEL Level 7 - HRM

Ethames Graduate School

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