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Tulip Paul

Bengaluru

Summary

Senior talent advisor with extensive expertise in technical and IT recruitment, focusing on product hiring. Demonstrated success in managing end-to-end recruitment for roles from entry-level to leadership. Proficient in crafting recruitment strategies and delivering effective solutions to stakeholders. Experienced in global recruitment across APAC, EMEA, and SEA regions, including GCC hiring, utilizing AI-driven tools for data-informed decisions and optimized outcomes.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Axi Technologies (Fintech Product)
Bangalore, India
11.2025 - Current

(www.axi.com)

  • Lead end-to-end recruitment lifecycle including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer closure across multiple business functions.
  • Partner with hiring managers through calibration and intake calls to define role requirements, success profiles, and hiring strategy.
  • Customize job descriptions based on hiring manager inputs and publish roles on Greenhouse ATS.
  • Conduct structured Talent Acquisition interviews to assess skills, experience, and cultural fit, utilizing BrightHire for interview management, recording, and structured note documentation.
  • Initiate and manage AI-based candidate assessments via Incruiter to support data-driven hiring decisions.
  • Coordinate with interview panels across multiple interview stages to ensure smooth and timely hiring process.
  • Drive compensation discussions in collaboration with TA Director and Hiring Managers to finalize offers.
  • Manage complete offer lifecycle including approvals, release, and candidate negotiations.
  • Lead weekly hiring review calls with hiring managers to provide pipeline updates and resolve hiring bottlenecks.
  • Collaborate with Talent Branding Manager on employer branding initiatives to strengthen candidate attraction and market presence.
  • Work with external vendors and recruitment partners to support niche and volume hiring requirements.
  • Hands-on experience in international recruitment across regions including India, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia & Australia.
  • Attended an onsite Talent Acquisition training program in Singapore focused on understanding candidate push and pull factors, advanced evaluation techniques, and cultural fit assessment.
  • Maintain accurate hiring data and pipeline status to work with global stakeholders.

Recruiter

Barracuda Networks (Cybersecurity SaaS Product)
Bangalore, India
06.2024 - 10.2025
  • Collaborating with Hiring Manager for Intake Meetings: Schedule and conduct intake meetings with the respective hiring managers to gather detailed information about active open roles. Document key insights and share via email for alignment and future references.
  • Advising & partnering with the hiring managers to align talent acquisition strategies with business objectives, ensuring critical roles were filled to drive performance.
  • Provided actionable market insights and recruitment guidance to influence hiring decisions.
  • Applicant Screening and Interview Coordination: Review active applicants, screen resumes, and coordinate interviews with the hiring panel. Manage the candidate journey from initial interview through to offer release.
  • Engage in Offer Exception Discussions: Participate in offer exception discussions with senior management as needed, ensuring alignment with company policies and competitive market practices.
  • Market research and data gathering for Niche/Critical roles and working on revised compensation.
  • Weekly Recruitment Sync: Attend weekly hiring meetings with directors, VPs and managing directors to provide updates on the status of each open requirement and address any challenges.
  • Global Stakeholder Collaboration: Liaise with global stakeholders to facilitate the hiring process for roles transitioning from the U.S. to India, ensuring smooth coordination and alignment across regions.
  • Leading Recruitment Drives: Responsible for leading successful Recruitment Drives both Face to Face & virtually ensuring seamless hiring experience for candidates & hiring managers.
  • Offer Discussion, Candidate Engagement & Offer Release: Involved in offer discussion & negotiation with the candidate. Keeping them warm till they get the offer and accept it. Involving candidate and management in post offer connect call to build a trust and level of interest regarding the opportunity to the candidate.
  • Achieved 88% offer acceptance rate & 30% increase in diversity hiring. Closed 55 plus full-time hires.
  • Streamlining Interview Process: Working with business leaders outside India to make them understand about regional hiring practices in India & developing strategic approach for short interview process by introducing structured interview framework. Reducing time to hire from 65 days to 40 days.
  • Global Recruitment: Recruiting for other regions apart from India like Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, China, Australia, Malaysia & UK for different roles. Majority is hiring for India GCC.
  • Campus & University Hiring: Researching about Campus & University data, creating reports and reaching out to universities & institutes for collaboration. Planning & executing strategies for successful Campus & Off Campus hiring both in-person & Virtual for Interns & Freshers Full Time. Successfully driving Internship Program for Technical Department.
  • Additional Activities: Collaborating with different cross functional team to develop Talent Reports & Dashboard, analyse Recruitment & Sourcing Metrics, and refine Recruitment Strategies and Talent Branding Initiatives. Taking care of Weekly Global Report that is presented from India to higher management. Preparing Interview Screening Questionnaires for hiring for recruitment team. Delivering training for new recruiters to understand about ATS, sourcing tools, hiring process. Planning & executing successful Referral Campaign events in office premises.

Executive II – Talent Acquisition

Apexon
Bangalore, India
07.2022 - 05.2024

(BFSI/Fintech Domain - Goldman Sachs Project)

  • Collaborating with project stakeholders to define technical hiring requirements.
  • Executing comprehensive, end-to-end recruitment for internal employees on billable projects for India GCC hiring.
  • Cultivated and managed relationships with key clients to understand their talent acquisition needs and develop tailored solutions.
  • Developing and implementing innovative talent acquisition strategies to enhance recruitment process.
  • Conducted on-site client visits as well to gather requirements and assess future hiring needs, enabling proactive talent planning and alignment with business goals.
  • Collaborated with clients to develop comprehensive recruitment strategies, including sourcing, screening, and selection processes.
  • Leveraging ATS tools like Jobvite & Zwayam for candidate management.
  • Successfully sourcing and screening profiles from Naukri and LinkedIn.
  • Coordinating and Scheduling interviews, including high-level client round interviews.
  • Contributing to strategic discussions internally on market trends and Hiring Strategies.
  • Negotiating compensation packages and managing offer letters.
  • Overseeing pre-joining documentation, coordinating with IT, and Onboarding teams.
  • Recognized as Employee of the Quarter (Q1 2023).
  • Closed 75 plus full-time hires in the entire tenure.
  • BFSI/Fintech Domain – Goldman Sachs Project

Associate Consultant

ManpowerGroup
Kolkata, India
05.2021 - 07.2022
  • Onsite Recruiter & Team Lead: SPOC for clients, led a team of 6–10 recruiters, managed full cycle hiring, pre-joining coordination, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Backend Recruiter: Supported sourcing and screening for various clients using portals and LinkedIn. Conducted talent market research.
  • Closed 47 plus full-time hires for the clients.
  • Worked in RPO Division for clients like - Xceedance & Hitachi Vantara

Recruiter

IMS People
Ahmedabad, India
01.2020 - 05.2021

ORS Division (UK & APAC Hiring)

  • Specialized in UK & APAC hiring, supporting multiple clients across various industries.
  • Conducted CV Screening, sourcing, and managed candidate pipelines using UK-specific job boards.
  • Proficient in ATS Platforms like SourceBreaker and JobAdder.
  • Utilized tools such as Hunter.io, Lusha, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Crunchbase for candidate identification and research.
  • Worked closely with UK & APAC managers to support Sourcing, Job Posting, Market Research, and Candidate Engagement.
  • Closed 45 plus full-time hires for the business.

Education

M.B.A - Finance, Systems

Future Institute of Engineering and Management
Kolkata, WB
01-2018

Graduation - BCA

Techno India Saltlake
Kolkata, WB
01-2016

XII (10+2) - Science

Techno India Group
Kolkata, WB
01-2013

X (10) -

South Point High School
Kolkata, WB
01-2011

Skills

  • End-to-End Recruitment
  • Sourcing & Screening
  • Web 20 Sourcing Methodologies
  • Liaison & Coordination
  • Offer Negotiation & Onboarding
  • SLA Management
  • Candidate Feedback & Experience Improvement
  • ATS Tools
  • Online Assessment Tool
  • AI Tools for Interviewing
  • Workforce Planning Platform
  • Talent & Market Mapping
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • SharePoint
  • Outlook
  • Excel
  • Slack
  • MS Teams
  • Data Analysis & Reporting
  • Market Research & Talent Metrics
  • Recruitment Strategy
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Diversity
  • Lateral Hiring
  • Leadership Hiring
  • Internal Hiring
  • Active Hiring
  • Passive Hiring

Roles hired for

From fresher to senior leadership levels for the roles below:

Developers, Engineers, Analysts, Consultants, Project Managers, Technical Architects, Engineering Senior Directors, UI/UX Experts, DevOps & SRE, Senior Data Engineers & Data Analysts, Cloud professionals, AI/ML Experts, Principal Full Stack Developers, Principal Engineers, Product Manager, Senior Security Engineer, Information

Security Engineer, Cybersecurity Analyst (Red, Blue & Purple Team), Cybersecurity Manager for both Analyst & Engineer etc

Technologies & Domains Expertise

C#, Dot Net, JavaScript, Angular, React, NodeJS, jQuery, Java, J2EE, Spring boot, Microservices, JSF, Maven,

Kafka, Apache, Hibernate, Big Data, Cloudera, Hadoop, RESTful API, SR Devops & SR SRE with AWS/Azure,

Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, UI/UX, Cloud Technologies, Python, Django, Flask, Digital Analytics, Data Science, AI/ML, IT Infrastructure, Databricks & different distributing computing platform, Data Centre, Alteryx & Power Bi, Cybersecurity – SIEM, SOC, EDR, Networking support – TCP/IP, UDP, Firewalls, Duck Creek -(Billing/Claims/Policy/Data Insights), DBA, SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Hybrid Mobile Application, React Native, Camunda, Golang, Windows, Linux, MEAN Stack, MERN Stack, LAMP Stack, Automation Testing, SDET, Investment Banking Analyst, Hardware & Embedded Designing & Development, RF Testing, IT compliance,

WAF/Email/Firewall Support, Cybersecurity Sales, GTM, Cybersecurity Engineers, Technical Support Engineer & Managers (Firewall, NG, Email, Backup), SOC Analyst with EDR/SIEM Experience, End Point Security Engineer, Security Platform Engineering - Manager & Principal Engineer, Product Managers for Fintech etc

Certification

  • ChatGPT & AI Hacks with MS Office Workshop, Skill Nation
  • Consulting Essential from Talent Development, Percipio
  • Human Resources: Payroll, LinkedIn Learning
  • Onboarding New Hires as a Manager, LinkedIn Learning
  • Boosting Performance with the Employee Appraisal Process, Skillsoft Digital Badge

Languages

English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Bengali
Proficient
C2

Linkedin

http://www.linkedin.com/in/tulippaul555

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Axi Technologies (Fintech Product)
11.2025 - Current

Recruiter

Barracuda Networks (Cybersecurity SaaS Product)
06.2024 - 10.2025

Executive II – Talent Acquisition

Apexon
07.2022 - 05.2024

Associate Consultant

ManpowerGroup
05.2021 - 07.2022

Recruiter

IMS People
01.2020 - 05.2021

M.B.A - Finance, Systems

Future Institute of Engineering and Management

Graduation - BCA

Techno India Saltlake

XII (10+2) - Science

Techno India Group

X (10) -

South Point High School
Tulip Paul