Somshekar Desai

• Own enterprise HR charter across C&B, performance cycles, engagement, L&D, and compliance, partnering with business and sales for headcount and org development.
• Migrated policies, employee data, and workflows from DigiSprint, harmonizing benefits, leveling, and review cadences post-rebrand.
• Operationalized AI-in-HR use cases in sourcing augmentation, screening assistance, and HR analytics dashboards to improve throughput and visibility.
• Maintained "open door" policy to encourage employee communications and resolution of issues.
• Maintained optimal staffing levels by tracking vacancies and initiating recruitment and interview processes to identify qualified candidates.
• Developed comprehensive employee training programs, resulting in a more skilled workforce.

• Set up end-to-end HR and TA from zero-to-one in a startup context, establishing policies, SOPs, and candidate experience standards.
• Implemented ATS/HRMS, standard dashboards, and SLA governance for hiring quality, time-to-fill, and offer acceptance tracking.
• Scaled headcount from 25 to 150 while maintaining process discipline across India, US, and LATAM hiring channels.

Leading hiring for entire firm for multiple clients including Product, services and startup

➢ Partner with clients, hiring managers to conduct workforce planning and align recruiting plan ➢ Managing the full recruitment cycle for complex and senior level hires as per the client

➢ Develop simple and efficient system to support recruiting programs tailored to organization need ➢ Leading overall recruitment entire organization

➢ Designs & execute fulfillment plan to meet client expectations within SLA ➢ Design the effective sourcing strategies & channel for open demands

➢ Evaluating and On boarding ATS and HRMS tools.

➢ Taking care operations andmanagement of the organization

Responsible for stakeholder management with VP’s & BU Head

➢ Responsible for volume hiring and event planning (weekend drive) ➢ Leading overall recruitment for entire organisation

➢ Designs & execute fulfillment plan to meet business expectations within SLA ➢ Design the effective sourcing strategy & channel for open demands

➢ Explores the market best practices in the market and implement appropriate in the organization ➢ Monitoring and constantly reduces the costs of the recruitment process

➢ Coordinating with Business & Delivery team to understand their requirements andservice them.

➢ Create weekly dashboard & recruitment analytics and sharing with global delivery heads & leadership ➢ Initiatives – Diversity drive and candidate experience during weekend drive.

➢ Managing and monitoring Vendors, adding and deleting vendors based on the performance

➢ Lead the hiring for E-commerce retail vertical

➢ Coordinating with Delivery heads to understand their requirements and service on time ➢ Coordinate with Internal staffing for pipeline management

➢ Candidate identification and evaluation, negotiating salary handling joining formalities. ➢ Work with resource management team for internal deployment

➢ Preparing weekly reports and sharing with recruitment head and delivery team ➢ Organizing & leading the weekly call between recruitment anddelivery team ➢ Helping campus team in campus recruitment