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 $5 million through strategic initiatives and execution.
- Led end-to-end hiring for both technical and non-technical roles across multiple functions.
Associate Director – Talent Acquisition
ZoloStays (Coliving, Student Housing, Hotel & Real Estate), PAN India
05.2022 - 08.2024
- Managed and scaled group businesses for Zolo from 0-1 to 1-10 (Co-living, Student Housing, Industrial Housing, Real Estate, Hotel)
- Successfully managed and collaborated with C-level and senior leadership including the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO, VP of Product, and other VPs & SVPs to align hiring strategies with organizational goals and drive cross-functional initiatives.
- Managed a team of Manager TA, Associate Managers, Sr Associate & Associates
- Supervised & Strategized Bulk Hiring for Sales/BD, Field Ops, Inside Sales, Customer Support, Customer Delight, Supply Chain, Demand, Tech, Product, teams
- Individually contributing for the hiring from Mid to senior level roles for Procurement, Warehouse, Finance, Legal, Business Intelligence, Supply Chain, F&B, Product, CEO’s Office, Marketing
- Automated the manual hiring process, dashboard, TA Metrics & Insights
- Process Improvement, JD & Skills Mapping, TA Handbook, Job Family, Tenets, TA Assessment, Role Pitch, Candidate Experience, Email Communication
- Implemented DarwinBox, ZingHR, HROne and Fresteam ATS
Global TA – Sr Specialist
Vistaprint Technologies P Ltd (E-Commerce), 2.4Billion$, 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.
- 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
B.com - undefined
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