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Satyapal Gatla
Talent Acquisition
Hyderabad
Summary
- Seasoned Talent Acquisition Specialist with 15 years' experience in full lifecycle recruitment, candidate engagement, stakeholder and portfolio management
- Fast learner with ever increasing Quest for knowledge to keep grooming level duly paced up with international developments
- Self-driven, focused and fine-tuned with superior written and verbal communication abilities
- An out-of-the-box thinker and a strong believer in motivating and developing team to maximum productivity and cost-effective models
- Highly competent in handling the tasks both at an individual level as well as within a team.
- A 'keen learner' having excellent 'communication', 'analytical', 'logical' and 'strategic' abilities
- A quick learner with high levels of adaptability and performance both individually and as a team member.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
2009
2009
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Manager - Talent Acquisition (Tech & Product)
Lenskart.com
07.2021 - Current
- Established and scaled a high-performing technology team in Hyderabad, scaling the team from 0 to 50 employees within 6 months.
- Working with Co-founder to full fill the hiring needs for tech & Product Pods.
- Collaborate with hiring managers to define recruitment needs, craft job descriptions, and outline hiring strategies tailored to product-focused roles.
- Leading a team of 3-4 recruiters
- Utilize a variety of sourcing channels, including LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and networking events, to attract top talent for technical, design, and product management roles.
- Weekly review with Co-founder on the progress and strategy to deliver hiring on time.
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
- Built high-performing teams through effective recruitment, onboarding, and talent development initiatives.
- Mentored junior team members for career advancement, fostering a pipeline of future leaders within the organization.
- Manage and resolve escalations, meet recruitment and responsible for overall delivery.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (e.g., engineering, design, and product management) to understand role requirements and ensure smooth recruitment workflows.
- Engaging vendor performance metrics, such as candidate quality, submission timelines, and conversion rates, to ensure alignment with company hiring goals.
- Ensure all hiring processes comply with relevant employment laws and internal policies, maintaining accurate documentation of recruitment activities.
Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition
Kony India Private Limited
7 2013 - 07.2021
- Product hiring for Platform (R&D), work closely with hiring Managers on recruitment plan and strategies
- Implement strategies to leverage social media in sourcing for open position and talent pipelines
- SPOC for Campus recruitment entire Hyderabad location and onboarded 200+ Interns/Freshers.
- Managing the complete recruitment life cycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources within TAT
- Utilizing sourcing methodologies like LinkedIn Recruiting, Boolean, Google Search etc
- Proactively gathering requirements from the practice, understanding technical job duties and responsibilities
- Competency mapping in consultation with business heads and function leaders
- Preliminary interviewing of potential candidates in order to assess the candidate's suitability, Attitude, Academic & professional qualifications, experience, communication skills etc
- Coordinate, Collaborate with technical panels for technical evaluation and feedback
- Salary Negotiations, parity check and normalization, follow-up with candidates for their DOJ
- Tracking applicant flow and recruiting statistics to determine future recruitment strategies
- Recruitment through different channels (Referrals, Job boards, Social Media)
- Using advanced internet sourcing skills to identify 'passive candidates' to create a targeted pool
- Managing vendors for IT recruitments and Support
- Successfully reduced usage of search firms thus reducing cost-per-hire
- Developed and maintained network with industry professionals to build pipeline for urgent requirements
- Provide accurate tracking reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis
Associate
Polaris Financial Technology Ltd
08.2011 - 07.2013
- Responsible for the BU specific hiring, planning and implementing the events
- Coordination with vendors and job consultants for providing eligible candidates for the selection process
- Sourcing Profiles through Head hunting, Employee & Candidate referrals, Networking, Manpower Consultancies and skill mapping on Job Portals
- Have handled different requirement covering a wide range of technology used in the IT Industry
- Functions in the entire hiring process right from identifying new sources, sourcing
- Screening, short listing resumes, scheduling tech interview, feedback's, forms and docs management, participate in salary fixation, offer letters
- Planning and conducting of Walk-In interviews in Hyderabad and other outstation locations
- Negotiations and closing job offers within the suggested fitment scale
- Induction & Joining Formalities: Inducting and orientation of new employees, making them aware of the company's background, rules, policies and procedures
- Responsible for completion of all the joining formalities of the candidate
- Involved in the Rewards and Recognition process
- Arranging social welfare activities with voluntary involvement of employees
Sr. Executive
Oasis Global Services Pvt Ltd
06.2009 - 06.2011
- Handling roles across IT, ITES & Non-IT sectors
- Responsible for recruitments of IT functions for all the Top-Notch Clients
- Responsible for internal recruitment within the organization
- Sourcing & screening of resumes from job portals, company site & consultants
- Short listing resumes from direct reference and maintaining the database in accordance with Employee referral policy
- Coordinating with Recruiters in timely execution of assigned work
- Maintaining MIS for all the open positions across the board
- Coordinating interviews, conducting psychometric tests & coordination with Technical heads
- Tracking & coordinating with the selected candidates till on-boarding
- Streamlining joining formalities & maintaining employees' record
- Updates and maintain required reports to the management
Education
MBA - Human Resource
Osmania University
Skills
Stake Holder Management
Leadership/Executive Hiring
Strategic Talent Acquisition
Social Media Hiring
Campus Hiring
Hackathon hiring
Employee Engagement
Employee Referral Practices
Vendor Management
ATS tools and systems
Technologies Hired
Full stack developers, Product Managers, Product Designers, Front End developers , Devops Engineers, Engineering Managers, Data Scientist,Instructional Designer, Cloud Architect, SDE, SDET, Technical Writers, Product Support Managers, Build and Release Engineer, Java Architects, Testing, Business Analyst, Java Solution Architects, Actimize, Cloud Administrators,Testing
Interests
Podcasts and Webinars
Health and Wellness
Timeline
Manager - Talent Acquisition (Tech & Product)
Lenskart.com
07.2021 - Current
Associate
Polaris Financial Technology Ltd
08.2011 - 07.2013
Sr. Executive
Oasis Global Services Pvt Ltd
06.2009 - 06.2011
Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition
Kony India Private Limited
7 2013 - 07.2021
MBA - Human Resource
Osmania University