SASIKUMAR S
Chennai,TN
Summary
Lead Technical Talent Acquisition professional with 6+ years of experience partnering with business leaders to drive strategic hiring across Product, Engineering, AI/Data Science, and GTM organizations within high-growth product companies. Proven track record in building scalable talent pipelines, leading niche and business-critical hiring initiatives, influencing hiring strategy, and delivering exceptional recruitment outcomes through advanced sourcing, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision-making.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Lead Talent Acquisition IC3
Freshworks
08.2025 - Current
- Full-Cycle Recruitment: Managed end-to-end recruitment processes including job postings, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding for Software Engineering, Software Development testing & Data Science hiring.
- Sourcing Strategies: • Mentored and upskilled junior recruiters through recurring knowledge-sharing sessions on advanced sourcing methodologies, technical talent mapping, stakeholder management, and recruitment best practices, while driving strategic sourcing initiatives leveraging LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, Instahyre, Boolean search, X-ray sourcing, talent market mapping, employee referrals, and passive candidate engagement strategies to attract high caliber talent for niche and business critical roles.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnered across multiple business functions to execute strategic hiring programs for Product, Engineering, AI, and GTM teams, ensuring alignment with organizational growth priorities.
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS): Maintained candidate data and workflows using Workday, Smart Recruiters & LinkedIn Recruiter, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.
- Performance Metrics: Consistently met or exceeded hiring goals, reducing time-to-fill by 24% from 42% and increasing offer acceptance rates by 86% from 72%
- Onboarding and Retention: Led onboarding coordination and post-offer engagement strategies alongside hiring managers and business stakeholders to ensure a seamless candidate-to-employee transition, driving stronger new hire experience and retention.
- Hired 115 candidates across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and GTM functions, contributing to critical business growth.
- Led niche hiring for Data Science, overcoming talent scarcity by converting 10 offers from 28 candidates—the highest success rate in Freshworks history for this domain.
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist IC2
Freshworks
07.2024 - 07.2025
Technical Recruiter L4
Amazon
12.2021 - 07.2024
- Developed skills to tap into a wide range of talent sources using Web 2.0 techniques which helped build a large top-of-funnel to scale delivery for a number of lateral tech roles
- Job families supported include SDE (Vanilla & niche roles in Embedded), QAE, FEE, DevOps, ASE, Sysdev
- Hired 72 candidates with a monthly productivity of ~3.5 hires using robust screening and time tested candidate engagement strategies
- Supported a 2-month project for high volume role hiring delivering 20 hires
- Conducted a workshop and trained junior recruiters on sourcing and domain-specific hiring
- Coordinated and managed several hiring events
- Traveled to various Amazon centers and also to Campus for high volume hiring
Business development associate
Byjus
06.2020 - 01.2021
- Identify, assess and qualify new business opportunities
- Responsible for developing new partnerships and relationships and growing the company's customer base
- Track and report on sales and marketing efforts
- Strong organization and leadership skills
- Outbound calling to create a robust pipeline of prospects for the product
- Closed deals to meet exceed monthly target each month
Education
MBA - Business Analytics
SRM University
Chennai2024
Bachelor of Engineering -
SVCET , Anna University
Chennai2018
Skills
- Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Workforce Planning
- Employer Branding
- Recruitment Analytics
- Candidate Experience Management
- Offer Negotiation
- Team Leadership & Mentoring
- Diversity & Inclusion Hiring
Certification
- Licensed Recruiting foundations - 2022
- Licensed Technical Recruiting - 2022
- Licensed Tech Recruiting Foundations: 3 Recruiting Software Developers - 2022
Languages
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Lead Talent Acquisition IC3
Freshworks
08.2025 - Current
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist IC2
Freshworks
07.2024 - 07.2025
Technical Recruiter L4
Amazon
12.2021 - 07.2024
Business development associate
Byjus
06.2020 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Engineering -
SVCET , Anna University
MBA - Business Analytics
SRM University