Shweta Balla
Pune
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Senior Talent Advisor with 11+ years in global recruitment, team building, and stakeholder management. Known for my energy, proactive approach, dedication and transparency in every step of the hiring process
I excel at sourcing top talent and building high-impact teams across high-tech SaaS, startups, and multinational corporations. Skilled in TA operations, workforce tracking, and strategic business partnership, with a strong focus on DEI. Proficient in technical and non-technical hiring.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Talent Advisor
Avaya
4 2023 - Current
- Successfully led recruitment efforts for Avaya in achieving significant improvements in candidate quality, time-to-fill, and diverse hiring metrics.
- Strategic Talent Advisor: Provided talent market analytics to C-level leaders, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Data-Driven Decisions: Utilized analytics to meet hiring needs and improve decision-making processes.
- TAT: Reduced time-to-fill with a more agile recruitment process
- Increased DEI Metrics by 2%, Decreased ageing by 30%.
- Implemented Innovative sourcing techniques: 20% increase in qualified candidates
- Established robust recruitment metrics: leading to increased hiring efficiency and a lower offer decline ratio by 20%
- TA Dashboards: Developed insightful talent acquisition dashboards to support data-driven recruiting decisions.
- Executive Hiring: Successfully hired key leadership positions, including Vice President of Technology, Senior Director of Engineering, R&D Director
- Campus/ Intern hiring: Lead hiring initiatives for campus & intern hiring
- Manage Mid to Top level of recruiting projects well within Time, Budget and Quality parameters.
- Led regular hiring reviews with C-level executives across all business units.
Senior International Talent Acquisition Specialist
Velocity Global, LLC
Pune
10.2021 - 01.2023
- Accelerating the future of work by helping build a recruitment engine that hired the world's top talent, embodied Simplify Work Anywhere, and fueled global culture.
- Owned the delivery of international roles by collaborating with hiring leaders across global geographies.
- Hired tech and non-tech professionals globally in NA, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC across all levels.
- Spearheaded employer branding to boost internal and external brand visibility.
- Hired for Product & Technology, Customer Operations, and Leadership roles at Velocity Global.
- Played a key role in building and hiring GDC team in the APAC region
- Drove improvements in key hiring KPIs: time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and sourcing mix.
- Built a robust talent pipeline for Product and Tech roles using a data-driven approach and planned daily and weekly outreach strategies.
- Utilizing Talent Insights to inform & influence the hiring decisions
- Skills - Global Talent Acquisition, Stakeholder Management, Market Mapping, Boolean Sourcing, Agile Hiring, LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Saba Software
06.2017 - 10.2021
- Owned & led the end-to-end Recruitment activities for Saba Software, (now acquired by Cornerstone On Demand)
- Closures for strategic and niche positions in Product and Tech, TechOps, Support business units
- Achieved 100% success rate in fulfilling open positions.
- Implemented employer branding initiatives through various channels such as social media, referral programs, hackathons, and campus hiring.
- Benchmarked with top SaaS and product companies to refine hiring strategies and metrics.
- University Recruiting: Implemented strategies for university recruitment and internship hiring
- Key advisor to the business, providing an in-depth understanding of the talent market & trends
- Hired and Built development pods for verticals like Saba Meeting, Saba Learning
- Critical closures like Engineering Manager, Product Managers, AI/ML Engineers, Data scientist, Product owners, Cloud Infrastructure Lead, SRE Lead, UI Architect and Technical Architects. Non-tech closures such as AP, AR, Financial advisor, HRBP, TA specialists, Comp and Benefit Manager and Data analyst.
- Led the Initiatives like Women in Tech, Unconscious Bias training to meet the hiring needs of DEIB, employee testimonials using Comparably for Employer Branding
- Worked in collaboration with HRBP's to run the best practices like Coffee Connect program and Virtual Coffee meet with CTO
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Tieto
05.2016 - 11.2016
- End to end lateral hiring for various vanilla and niche roles.
- Hired people at all levels from experience range of 1-18 years across India
- Experience in hiring Full Stack Engineers, C++, .NET and Java Developer, BI Developers, Senior QA and SDETs, backend/frontend developers, DevOps, AWS, Cloud Infrastructure, Performance Tester.
- Developed weekly recruitment activity reports for management and participated in weekly/monthly recruitment calls with global stakeholder and leadership teams.
- Proficient in delivering prompt interview feedback to candidates and keeping hiring managers well-informed throughout the recruitment process.
- Events Management: Walk-ins, Mega Drives, Referral Walk-ins
IT Recruiter
VS International (RPO at Polaris Financial Tech)
Pune
04.2013 - 05.2016
- Owned full-cycle recruiting for Polaris Financial Technology Services Unit for PAN India
- Worked in various domains such as BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance), Capital markets and Credit cards
- Sourcing, Screening and hiring active and passive candidates
- Handled situations under high pressure and achieved targets as per given time frames
- Received numerous recommendations from Delivery managers; go-to recruiter for most challenging positions
Education
MBA - Human Resource
Indira College of Management Studies
Pune, India 03.2011 - 12.2013
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
Swami Ramanand Teertha University
Nanded, India 03.2008 - 02.2011
Skills
Global Talent Acquisition
Stakeholder Management
Market Intelligence & Market Mapping
Boolean Sourcing
Agile Hiring
LinkedIn Recruiter
ATS
Accomplishments
- Most Valuable Contributor (Recruitments), 2019, Saba Software
- Successful completion of meeting the end goal of DE&I targets, 2021, Cornerstone OnDemand
Technologies Hired
- Java J2EE (Microservices, Spring, , Hibernate, Kafka)
- C, C++, .net Engineers
- Full stack, Frontend, Backend Engineers and Architects
- Android, IOS Developers
- Technical Product & Project Managers
- UI/UX Designers,UI Designers
- QA & SDET Engineers, Performance Engineer
- DevOps, AWS, Cloud SRE and TechOps
- Data Scientists, AIML Engineers, NLP Engineers
- Oracle DBA, SQL DBA, Mongo
Timeline
Senior International Talent Acquisition Specialist
Velocity Global, LLC
10.2021 - 01.2023
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Saba Software
06.2017 - 10.2021
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Tieto
05.2016 - 11.2016
IT Recruiter
VS International (RPO at Polaris Financial Tech)
04.2013 - 05.2016
MBA - Human Resource
Indira College of Management Studies
03.2011 - 12.2013
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
Swami Ramanand Teertha University
03.2008 - 02.2011
Senior Talent Advisor
Avaya
4 2023 - Current
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