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Shiv Kumar Jha

TA Leader
Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Seasoned talent acquisition leader with 10+ years of experience in building and scaling teams across Consumer Tech, B2B SaaS, Hospitality, FMCG, Banking, Pharma, and Education sectors. Proven expertise in hiring across all levels, from 0-1 founding teams to scaling functional teams from 1-10 and beyond. Adept at implementing modern ATS platforms to streamline hiring operations and enhance candidate experience. Passionate about mentoring, coaching, and developing high-performing TA teams, while aligning hiring strategies with business goals in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Director - Talent Acquisition

Radical Health (AI for Healthcare, Ind & US)
09.2024 - Current
  • - Successfully implemented Zoho as the organization’s end-to-end HRMS platform.
  • - Scaled the team from 7 to 56 members within just 5 months, supporting rapid business growth.
  • - Established the BPO division for Radical Health's US operations, leading to an increase in revenue share from 1% to 8%.
  • - Played a key role in driving ARR growth from $1 million to $5 million through strategic initiatives and execution.
  • - Led end-to-end hiring for both technical and non-technical roles across multiple functions.

Associate Director – Talent Acquisition

ZoloStays (Coliving, Student Housing, Hotel & Real Estate), PAN India
05.2022 - 08.2024
  • - Managed and scaled group businesses for Zolo from 0-1 to 1-10 (Co-living, Student Housing, Industrial Housing, Real Estate, Hotel)
  • - Successfully managed and collaborated with C-level and senior leadership including the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO, VP of Product, and other VPs & SVPs to align hiring strategies with organizational goals and drive cross-functional initiatives.
  • - Managed a team of Manager TA, Associate Managers, Sr Associate & Associates
  • - Supervised & Strategized Bulk Hiring for Sales/BD, Field Ops, Inside Sales, Customer Support, Customer Delight, Supply Chain, Demand, Tech, Product, teams
  • - Individually contributing for the hiring from Mid to senior level roles for Procurement, Warehouse, Finance, Legal, Business Intelligence, Supply Chain, F&B, Product, CEO’s Office, Marketing
  • - Vendor Management - Rate negotiations, renewal, support, technical issues for Naukri, IIMJobs, Hirist, Freshteam, HROne, Unihyr, Xobin, ZingHR, Oorwin etc
  • - Automated the manual hiring process, dashboard, TA Metrics & Insights
  • - Process Improvement, JD & Skills Mapping, TA Handbook, Job Family, Tenets, TA Assessment, Role Pitch, Candidate Experience, Email Communication
  • - Implemented DarwinBox, ZingHR, HROne and Fresteam ATS

Global TA – Sr Specialist

Vistaprint Technologies P Ltd (E-Commerce), 2.4Billion$, Ahmedabad
08.2016 - 05.2018
  • - Managing end to end Talent Acquisition for Ahmedabad Site for diverse profiles. Also, handled recruiters from Berlin, Barcelona, Manila, Jamaica for international Recruitment projects.
  • - Channels of recruitment: Naukri, LinkedIn, Yahoo Groups, Headhunting, Industry Mapping, Tier 1, Tier 2 College Yearbooks, employee referrals schemes, internal exposure programs, train & hire methodology, job boards, job fairs, newspaper advertisement, weekend drives, candidate referrals, hackathons, campus placement, facebook, meet up, tech gig / other social sites and recruitment vendors.
  • - Conceptualising, Implementing and conducting campus hiring process.
  • - Bench Management: Creating continuous pipeline for frontline hires
  • - TA Metrics: Effectively manage source mix, TAT, performance ratio interviewed vs Selection, Gender Diversity Ratio.
  • - Responsible for updating and managing TA Dashboards to measure effectiveness.
  • - Candidate Experience: Designed and implemented a program to ensure superior pre-joining, post joining and on-boarding experience.
  • - Managing early attrition: Design and implement the connect program through floor walks and reduce the early attrition over a period of time.
  • - Stakeholder Management: Working with different hiring managers so as to understand the business requirements and deliver on the set date/deadlines & Quality
  • - TA Systems: Working knowledge of iCims, SAP, Blueprint, Codeground, WebEx, Tandberg, Codility etc.
  • - Background Verification: Initiating the BGV of the offered candidates through a third party vendor and ensuring closures within the TAT.

Asst. Manager - Talent Acquisition & Onboarding Operations (Corporate)

Ameya Information Limited, Ahmedabad (AdTech), Ahmedabad
09.2013 - 07.2016
  • - Managed end to end TA & hr Operations for PAN India level across Print/Digital, Real Estate & Corporate Team.
  • - Managed & Coached 4 direct reportees

Sr Executive – HR

The Lalit Hotel
05.2012 - 08.2013
  • Managed hiring across levels for Delhi and middle & level hiring for Kolkata, Chandigarh, J&K, MP
  • Hired for F&B Service, Housekeeping, F&B Production, Front Office and other support functions

Sr Consultant (Middle & Senior Level Hiring Specialist)

ElDorado Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon (Executive Search)
09.2010 - 05.2012
  • - Have worked as Hiring Partner for various clients like Tata McGraw Hill, Pearson, Educomp, Chopra Consultants, HUL, Nestle, Colgate Palmolive, Marico, HSBC, Citibank, Standard Chartered etc, CII for the Mid & Senior level Mandates

Education

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Shobhit University
01.2007

Skills

    End-to-End Recruitment

    Sourcing Strategies

    Interviewing & Screening

    Offer Management & Negotiation

    Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

    Campus Hiring & Lateral Hiring

    Executive & Leadership Hiring

    Bulk & Volume Hiring

    Onboarding Coordination

    Team Handling

    Vendor Management

Accomplishments

  • - Introduced Train & Hire Module by collaborating and sharing the curriculum with Institutes & Colleges which resulted in hiring increased by 14% (42 hires).
  • - Contributed in the journey from Series A to C with Zolo, 150 manpower to 3500 manpower
  • - Expertise in hiring for Finance, Legal, Program Management, Product, Analytics, Sales, Marketing (Online/Offline/Branding), HR, TA, WFM, Operations, Supply Chain.
  • - Have individually closed 300+ Mid-Senior roles for Zolo Since Nov’18 with Ticket size 10 Lacs and above
  • - Successfully got Day zero slots from ISB, IIMK, IIMI, IRMA.
  • - Revamped Employee Referral policy and made it more attractive to encourage employees to refer candidates which helped increase the numbers by 11%.

Timeline

Director - Talent Acquisition

Radical Health (AI for Healthcare, Ind & US)
09.2024 - Current

Associate Director – Talent Acquisition

ZoloStays (Coliving, Student Housing, Hotel & Real Estate), PAN India
05.2022 - 08.2024

Global TA – Sr Specialist

Vistaprint Technologies P Ltd (E-Commerce), 2.4Billion$, Ahmedabad
08.2016 - 05.2018

Asst. Manager - Talent Acquisition & Onboarding Operations (Corporate)

Ameya Information Limited, Ahmedabad (AdTech), Ahmedabad
09.2013 - 07.2016

Sr Executive – HR

The Lalit Hotel
05.2012 - 08.2013

Sr Consultant (Middle & Senior Level Hiring Specialist)

ElDorado Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon (Executive Search)
09.2010 - 05.2012

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Shobhit University
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