SOWNDARYA RJ

• Working as RPO & Product Recruiter, supporting three Disney business units, partnering closely with hiring managers and HR stakeholders to deliver end-to-end recruitment solutions.
• Performing as RPO & Recruiter for the Commerce, Data & Identity (CDI) team, where I'm the primary recruiter for this Business Unit & I'm the recruiter for Product Engineering team as well.
• Sourcing & leading roles in business units such as Product Engineering, Commerce, Data & identity, Infrastructure & Platform, Product management.
• The roles which I hired are Data Engineering, Software Engineering (Backend & Frontend heavy Full stack), Infrastructure & DevOps, Product Management, Business Operations.
• Dedicated significant effort to active sourcing, identifying and engaging high-quality talent through diverse channels, resulting in robust candidate pipelines.
• Sourced candidates primarily for domain-specific roles in Media, TV, OTT, Ads, live streaming, and broadcast, enhancing recruitment for specialized positions.
• Led stakeholder management, aligning hiring strategies with business needs, timelines, and workforce plans.
• Made over 20 job offers to candidates across multiple teams & counting.
• I have worked & sourced primarily for Senior, lead, Manager & Senior Manager levels and few Associate level.
• Collaborated closely with POC at Disney US team on candidate management, aligning hiring needs and recalibrating strategies based on insights from hiring market.
• Assisted in building the foundational team for Disney's GCC in Bangalore as an early team member.

Q2 Software is a product company that provides banking solutions to various banks and fintech in the US region, https://www.q2.com/

• Responsible for end to end recruitment in Various Product hiring.
• Continued involvement in Sourcing, Screening, Interview scheduling, debriefing, Salary discussion, Offer letter roll out, BGV check and candidate management until onboarding.
• Collaborate with Hiring managers to ensure getting the right talent as per the requirement at defined timeline.
• Conducted skill-based and domain-specific hiring according to hiring managers' preferences.
• Prioritized establishing a robust pipeline of candidates through effective sourcing. strong pipeline and proceeding with tech screenings.
• I hired for various roles under software development, quality engineering and business analysis, which were successfully delivered to the stakeholders by having Bi-weekly meetings to give regular updates.
• Fostered collaborative relationships with managers to enhance internal communication. with Managers and stakeholders for smooth internal processes.
• Maintaining regular meetings with stakeholders to give up to date hiring progress.
• Implementing different strategies, reverse engineering methods to problem solve if any, during hiring process.
• I have good exposure in REQ- creation, editing, changes, offer rollout process to do in Workday -ATS.
• Hands-on experience in using various Job portals like Naukri, LinkedIn recruiter site, Instahyre for the technical roles I'm hiring.
• Maintaining good rapport with candidates by showing professionalism and exhibiting company's culture.
• Roles hired include Software Engineers(fullstack), Sr. & Lead SDET'S, Product Owner, Business Analyst, UX Designer, Implementation Engineers, Finance & accounting reqs, IT Support & Application Support reqs.