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ROHAN SHETYE

Mumbai

Summary

Hands-on senior talent acquisition professional with 13 years of experience building and scaling hiring functions across Technology, Product, and Corporate teams. Deep expertise in designing workforce strategies, closing leadership talent, leading high-performing TA teams, and transforming recruiting operations through AI-driven automation and data-backed decision-making. Trusted partner to CXOs, known for strengthening hiring predictability, improving TA efficiency, and driving organization-wide talent initiatives.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Talent Acquisition

Dream11 (Dream Sports)
02.2020 - Current

Strategic Talent Acquisition Leadership

  • Partner with CXOs and HRBPs to forecast workforce needs and build proactive hiring strategies across Tech, Product, and Corporate functions.
  • Drive TA execution for leadership and niche roles with predictable, scalable hiring processes.

Executive and Critical Hiring Delivery

  • Deliver ~12 hires and ~118 annual non-leadership hires, with a 65% Offer to Joining ratio, improving hiring velocity and stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Build strong talent intelligence pipelines to support succession planning and bench-strength development.

TA Transformation & Operational Excellence

  • Lead the adoption of AI and no-code automation (ChatGPT, Lovable, custom workflows) to streamline sourcing, interview support, and candidate communication.
  • Improve hiring governance through better reporting, compensation benchmarking, and role architecture alignment.

Global Expansion

  • Led the establishment of Dream Sports’ first U.S. Office, serving as the liaison across Business, TA, HR Ops, and Legal for hiring, org setup, and compliance.

Team Leadership

  • Manage a team of three recruiters and mentor two additional members, building capability and a high-performance culture.

Campus and Early Talent

  • Lead IIT and ISB campus hiring for Tech & Product, creating scalable early-talent pipelines.

Assistant Manager, HR (Tech & Corporate Hiring)

Gupshup.ai
02.2015 - 02.2020

Talent Acquisition Delivery

  • Achieved an 88% offer-to-join ratio and hired over 110 employees, averaging 28 hires per year across technology and corporate roles.
  • Partnered with business leaders to design and execute full-cycle hiring plans.

HR Operations and Compliance

  • Managed onboarding, induction, BG checks, and payroll with 100% compliance, and 0% payroll errors since 2018.
  • Completed 35+ F&F settlements within a 10-day TAT, ensuring operational accuracy and closure.

Engagement and Retention

  • Contributed to reducing attrition to 14% and increasing eNPS to 31, supporting a stronger employee experience.

Recruiter

Universalhunt
06.2013 - 01.2015
  • Executed end-to-end recruitment: requirement gathering, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, negotiations, and onboarding.
  • Built consistent referral-driven pipelines and maintained strong candidate engagement throughout the cycle.

Education

PGCHRM -

XLRI Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur
01.2019

Master of HR Development Management -

N.L. Dalmia Institute
01.2018

B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication

Atharva College of Engineering
01.2012

Skills

  • Talent acquisition strategy
  • AI recruitment automation
  • Leadership hiring
  • Workforce planning
  • Candidate engagement
  • Full-cycle recruiting

Timeline

Director, Talent Acquisition

Dream11 (Dream Sports)
02.2020 - Current

Assistant Manager, HR (Tech & Corporate Hiring)

Gupshup.ai
02.2015 - 02.2020

Recruiter

Universalhunt
06.2013 - 01.2015

PGCHRM -

XLRI Jamshedpur

Master of HR Development Management -

N.L. Dalmia Institute

B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication

Atharva College of Engineering
ROHAN SHETYE