Headline

Global Head of Talent Acquisition at kAIgentic | Author, Raising the Bar | Recruiting craft that raises the bar at scale: executive search, candidate judgment, AI-augmented talent discovery

About

Hiring breaks when it outgrows instinct. I have spent 20 years building the systems that replace it, across in-house teams, executive search and RPO, for technology companies in India, the US, Europe and APAC. I lead Global Talent Acquisition at kAIgentic, building the team behind an enterprise intelligence platform across India, Japan, the US and Singapore. Before kAIgentic, I spent almost four years at Atlan, where I joined as a Talent Partner and was promoted twice in 17 months to Director, Talent Acquisition. My team and I hired for 300+ roles across almost every function, level and geography, and I personally ran the senior and executive searches across Product Management, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Marketing and Operations. I owned the plan end to end: headcount, TA capacity and hiring budgets with FP&A, and the structured hiring framework that kept the bar consistent across functions. What I work on: • Senior and executive search across product, engineering and GTM • Candidate judgment: structured hiring, bar calibration and interview quality • Finding, engaging and closing exceptional talent • AI-augmented talent discovery and recruiter enablement • Workforce capability planning tied to the budget I care about talent density: every hire should make the team stronger. I do my best work on cross-functional problems where better talent judgment compounds. I wrote Raising the Bar, a book for Talent Partners, TA & Business leaders on building high-bar hiring systems and running them at scale for quality. It’s pinned in Featured, and I write about modern talent systems on Medium.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Global Head of Talent Acquisition at kAIgentic, May 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Building the team that builds kAIgentic.🚀 kAIgentic is building the intelligence layer for the enterprise, enabling AI to understand how organizations actually work, reason over institutional knowledge, execute complex workflows and continuously learn from real-world operations. Building the people, teams and talent engine behind that mission. https://kaigentic.surge.sh

Director, Talent Acquisition at Atlan, Aug 2022 - May 2026 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Joined as a Talent Partner in Aug 2022, promoted to Associate Director in Feb 2023 and to Director in Jan 2024. • Hired for 300+ roles across almost every function, level and geography with my team; personally ran senior and executive searches across Product Management, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Marketing and Operations • Led global R&D Talent Acquisition across Engineering, Product, Design, IT and Security, supporting teams in India, North America, Europe and APAC • Owned workforce strategy end to end: headcount planning, TA capacity modelling and hiring budgets aligned with FP&A • Designed structured hiring frameworks for bar calibration, interview signal quality and decision consistency across functions • Built AI-driven sourcing and recruiter enablement systems • Partnered with Engineering, Product and Marketing leadership on talent branding • Drove leadership hiring and succession pipelines for R&D

Vice President at Ztek Consulting, Mar 2018 - Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos, India, Led global TA and executive hiring across North America, Europe, and APAC for Fortune 500 clients Built and scaled RPO and retained search models across multiple countries including EU and Latin America Managed and developed geographically distributed teams of recruiters Designed diversity hiring roadmaps and market intelligence-driven talent strategies Delivered leadership hiring for data, analytics, AI, and security practices

Manager - Talent Acquisition at InfoCepts, Jul 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos, India, Owned talent acquisition strategy and delivery for Big Data, Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics hiring across the US, Singapore and India. • Led campus hiring strategy, widening the institutes we hired from and securing Day 0 and Day 1 presence • Introduced talent branding, candidate experience and talent intelligence to compete in a tight market • Singlehandedly drove the executive hiring strategy with over 25 executives hired in 2017 • Prepared and managed the global TA budget, and set strategic hiring priorities with leadership • Selected and implemented Oracle Taleo Cloud as the TA system, and designed every recruiting workflow on it • Partnered with executive management and Resource Management on headcount planning and fulfillment • Set KPIs and KRAs for the team, led performance reviews, and reported hiring metrics to management

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at GreyOrange Pte Ltd, Jul 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurgaon, India, Led Global Talent Strategy around corporate, STEM, leadership, and business roles. Spearheaded the HC growth from 150 to ~700 resources within a year. Scaled the team to 7 recruiters. Defined SOPs, SLAs, and operational matrix for overall talent delivery. Participated in Talent Strategy & Headcount Planning meetings as the TA expert. Leveraged different talent delivery models including full-time hiring, contract hiring, outsourcing & offshoring based on business needs. Strategically leveraged these talent models to drive business growth. Partnered with Product Management & Engineering leaders to proactively identify and build talent pipelines for future needs. Worked with Sales Leaders to proactively identify and engage sales & business development talent in target geographies. Awarded as a GreyOrange Ambassador for driving speed and quality within TA

Education

Postgraduate Degree, Strategic Human Resources Management, Indian Institute of Management Nagpur

Public links

github: https://github.com/rishi-banerjee1

rishi-banerjee1.github.io: https://rishi-banerjee1.github.io/about-me/