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Mohan PS

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Bengaluru

Summary

Strategic Talent Acquisition Specialist with 5+ years of experience leading end-to-end technical hiring for product-driven organizations. Proven track record in building high-performing engineering teams from the ground up, supporting rapid scaling across backend, frontend, cloud, and emerging domains such as AI.

Expert in designing data-driven recruitment strategies aligned with product roadmaps and business goals. Adept at partnering with senior leadership, hiring managers, team leads, peers and customers to translate complex technical requirements into effective hiring plans, while ensuring a strong candidate experience.

Demonstrated success in owning the complete recruitment lifecycle from talent mapping, pipeline building to interview orchestration, offer negotiation and onboarding. Known for driving hiring excellence in fast-paced environments, mentoring junior recruiters, and consistently delivering hiring goals and timelines.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Acquisition Specialist

BootLabs
Bangalore
09.2023 - Current
  • Built and led the Talent Acquisition function from scratch, establishing scalable hiring processes, talent pipelines, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Drove end-to-end hiring across 10+ technical domains including AI, Backend (Java, Python, Golang), Frontend (React), Cloud, DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps, FinOps across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and BA/PMO roles.
  • Scaled the organization from 100 to 345 employees, contributing to 75+ successful tech hires.
  • Achieved an 88% offer-to-joining ratio in FY 2025–2026 and maintained 100% candidate engagement post-offer, minimizing drop-offs and ensuring smooth onboarding.
  • Led hiring strategy and execution for the HDFC engagement under the first T&M model, building a scalable recruitment framework for future projects.
  • Created and distributed job postings on job boards, career sites and social media networks to increase reach.
  • Provided regular updates on talent acquisition performance metrics to senior leadership, supporting data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement efforts.
  • Acted as brand ambassador to educate candidates on culture, career growth, benefits, and advantages of working for company.
  • Led and executed campus hiring and diversity hiring initiatives.
  • Collaborated with hiring managers to determine job requirements and understand departmental needs.
  • Delivered consistent hiring outcomes with closures, and maintained a stakeholder/vendor response time of ≤ 24 hours.
  • Enhanced hiring efficiency and quality by driving process improvements, contributing to in-house ATS development, and successfully testing and implementing an AI-based interview process as a standardized L1 interview stage.

Technical Recruiter

Anzy Global
Bangalore
09.2022 - 09.2023
  • Specialized in hiring for product-based companies, including early-stage startups, mid-sized firms, and unicorn organizations, with hands-on experience supporting clients such as Zomato, Blinkit, Apollo, Hyperface, and Broadridge.
  • Delivered hiring across diverse industry domains including E-commerce, Fintech, Edutech, Agrotech, and BFSI, demonstrating strong adaptability to varied business and technology landscapes.
  • Managed end-to-end recruitment processes with a strong focus on accuracy and compliance, identifying and resolving discrepancies in documentation and hiring workflows.
  • Direct the reporter to the Business Director, and I had a joining ratio of 70-75%.
  • Built strong candidate relationships by guiding them through the entire lifecycle, from initial engagement to interviews, offer negotiation, and onboarding, ensuring a seamless candidate experience.
  • Demonstrated strong adaptability by quickly learning new technologies, tools, and role requirements across multiple domains.
  • Maintained high standards of organization, attention to detail, and communication, enabling effective stakeholder and candidate management.

Key Hiring Experience:

  • Engineering: Backend (SDE 1/2/3), Frontend (SDE 1/2/3), Full Stack, SDET, SRE/DevOps.
  • Mobile: React Native, Android, iOS.
  • Data: Data Scientist, Data Engineer.
  • Product & Design: Product Manager, Product Analyst, UI/UX Designer.
  • Enterprise: C#/.NET Developers, Oracle DB/DBA.

Technical Recruiter

Meeden Labs
Bangalore
07.2021 - 09.2022
  • RPO for Altimetrik Pvt Ltd (Account: Intuit), Duration: Sep 2021 – June 2022.
  • Acted as an Accounts Manager for 6 months, and efficiently handled 2 clients and a team of 4 Technical Recruiters.
  • Acted as the main point of contact between clients and candidates, overseeing the entire recruitment cycle until its completion.
  • Extensively involved in end-to-end recruitment process i.e., pre and post-interview activities which include right from understanding the requirements, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, interviewing, selection, docs collection, offer negotiation, fitment closures, and post-offer follow-ups till candidates get on-boarded.
  • Successfully developed sustainable talent pipelines for the clients where I worked for both current and future opportunities.
  • Skilled in utilizing Boolean search techniques on Naukri, and Monster.
  • Preparing monthly reports, and maintaining trackers and ATS (Application Tracking System).
  • Optimized sourcing networks and used proactive methods to direct source candidates.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - History, Geography and Public Administration

Osmania University
Hyderabad
01-2020

Skills

Candidate sourcing & screening resumes

Candidate pipeline management

Applicant tracking systems

Job posting optimization

Candidate tracking

Salary and benefits negotiations

Boolean search proficiency

Onboarding processes

Data-driven decision making

Teamwork and collaboration

Hiring forecasting

Customer & vendor relationship management

Recruitment planning

Campus hiring

Escalation handling

Root cause analysis

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Specialist

BootLabs
09.2023 - Current

Technical Recruiter

Anzy Global
09.2022 - 09.2023

Technical Recruiter

Meeden Labs
07.2021 - 09.2022

Bachelor of Arts - History, Geography and Public Administration

Osmania University
Mohan PSSenior Talent Acquisition Specialist