Neha Nag Choudhary

Proven talent acquisition leader with over a decade of cross-functional recruitment experience spanning corporate, commercial, supply chain, and digital/product functions across diverse industries. Adept at leading senior and executive-level hiring, with a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Currently managing and mentoring a high-performing TA team of six, driving excellence through coaching, performance management, and innovation.

Key Strengths and Achievements:

• Strategic TA Leadership: Developed and executed scalable hiring strategies aligned with evolving business goals, partnering closely with the senior leadership (CFO, CDO, CCO, CEO, CTO) to deliver workforce planning, market insights, and succession hiring.
• Market Mapping & Talent Intelligence: Conducted in-depth market mapping and talent research to proactively identify and engage top-tier candidates, enabling data-led decisions on talent availability and location strategy.
• Diversity-Focused Recruitment: Built inclusive talent pipelines, and ensured DEI principles are embedded in every stage of the hiring process; recognized for increasing diverse representation across verticals (raised from 22% to 31% last year).
• End-to-End Hiring Across Functions: Expertise in senior-level hiring for Product, Digital, Technology, Corporate, Commercial, and Supply Chain functions, ensuring fit-for-purpose talent across domains.
• Talent Analytics & Dashboards: Designed and implemented TA dashboards and recruitment analytics to track performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and guide data-driven decision-making.
• Stakeholder Management and Collaboration: Influential communicator and trusted advisor to business leaders; successfully managed high-impact hiring initiatives, and cross-functional projects.
• Mentoring & Team Development: Passionate about building and leading strong TA teams, fostering a culture of learning, accountability, and innovation.
• Process Excellence and ATS Optimization: Skilled in optimizing ATS platforms and recruitment workflows to improve candidate experience, and recruiter efficiency.
• Background Verification (BGV) Streamlining: Led enhancements in BGV processes, reducing turnaround time, and ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Vendor and RPO Management: Established and managed strategic vendor partnerships to ensure quality, scalability, and timely delivery of talent.
• Employer Branding & EVP: Collaborated with internal comms and marketing to strengthen employer brand positioning, especially for niche, and digital talent segments.
• Innovation in TA+ Projects:

AI Interview Pilots
Hiring Manager Capability Building
Compensation Mapping
Employer Branding
TA Thought Leadership

• Mentoring & Team Leadership: Managed and coached a TA team of seven, building capability in strategic sourcing and business alignment.

Khatabook, established in 2019, provides fintech solutions to the MSME sector in India from managing ledger, catalogue, and inventory, to providing lending solutions. The company is backed by investors like Sequoia, DST, etc. and is currently valued at US $500 million.

Currently managing Talent Acquisition, for on-roll and off-roll employees of Khatabook and Bizanalyst.

• Managing a team of 7+ members from responsible for Non-Tech, Customer Success, Channel Sales and Field Sales hiring in Bangalore and Mumbai.

• Working closely with COO, CEO, and SVPs (vertical heads) with respect to prioritization of roles, providing market research, and talent long-lists.

• Worked closely with VCs like Sequoia and DST to close key leadership roles in the lending space .

• Delivered improved numbers in diversity hiring from 10% to 18% with major diversity starting in the Non Tech vertical.

• Supported the management team in building the Financial Services from scratch by identifying the FinServ Head and Collections Head under which the entire team of Field Sales and Collections was built.

• The hiring team has delivered a headcount of 100+ off-roll hires for Field Sales, 150+ hires in Channel Sales, and 250+ off-roll hires in Customer Success with the target for 2023 reaching a headcount of 500+.

• Ran Academy Model for Hire-Train-Deploy model with respect to campus hires for Customer Success and FinServ Field Sales hiring.

• Increased Employee Referral contribution for Non-Tech as well as Off-Roll hiring.

• Built Academy model (hire-train-deploy) model for the Customer Success team.

• Cut down vendor cost from 55% to less than 20%.

• Implemented TurboHire ATS in 3 weeks .

• Set up teams from scratch to support Lending hiring while also contributing to hiring mid- and senior-level hires /Leadership hirings.

• Managed entire North , South and East region hirings for FMCG and Fresh vertical.
• Networked with other professionals and organizations to expand contacts and opportunities.
• Handled a team size of 3 recruiters here .
• Worked with Business Heads closely to close the open requisitions , have managed all review calls weekly basis with all the stakeholders, with data in place .
• Conducted telephone and in-person interviews to assess candidate experience and qualifications.
• Implemented innovative recruitment strategies to increase number of high-quality job applicants.

• Joined Meesho at an early stage , where I have contributed to setup the HR team , Sales , Business , category teams .
• Worked on various projects - Business development for PAN India , Category Managers, Program Manager , Design and Marketing roles.
• Managed Vendors for all offrole and onrole hirings .
• POC for Non Tech roles , front facing the stakeholders on hiring updates .
• Developed and maintained applicant tracking system, tracking all job openings, applicants and interviewing activity.
• Negotiated on vendor agreements , CTC discussions and closed within Budgets shared.
• Worked with the hiring managers to create JD's for the open reqs, have been working on an IC role here wherein i have managed sourcing , scheduling , stakeholder management , data , CTC discussions all by myself for the roles assigned to me .
• Worked on Employer branding and Candidate experience projects as well .
• Well versed with recruitment portals like naukri , IIM jobs , Linkedin
• Worked on Employee referral projects as well to get more diverse and skilled talents across verticals.

• Started my TA career at Flipkart, managing end-to-end hiring across verticals, with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement and vendor coordination. Gained foundational experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.