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Building Smartsheet India: One ‘A-Player’ at a time!

About

Experienced Talent Acquisition leader with a demonstrated history of working in the SAAS, Fintech, BFSI and information technology and services industry. Skilled in Employer Branding, Leadership Hiring, IT hiring, Sales and GTM Recruitment, HRMS/ATS Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), team management, executive reporting and project management.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition at Smartsheet, Jan 2026 - Present · 9 mo, Bengaluru, Driving Smartsheet India’s growth story as their Talent Acquisition Leader. Leading a high-performing global recruiting team to build world-class engineering, product, and technology talent while helping scale a thriving AI Product Innovation and Engineering Centre in Bengaluru Hiring for - Product & Design: Product Managers | Product Designers Data & AI/ ML OPS: Data Scientists | Analytic|AI/ML Ops Engg | Data Platform Engineering: SE I & II | SSE I & II | Principal Engineers (Full Stack) Operations: Tech Support Specialists| Team Manager | Tech support leads Marketing: Demand Gen/MarkOps Sales Enablement Smartsheet empowers 80% of the Fortune 500 to move from "ideas" to "impact" through our industry-leading enterprise work management platform and powered by AI. Our culture is built on transparency, innovation, and a "can-do" spirit that makes scaling complex systems feel like a team sport. Exciting times are ahead as we build the engine of Smartsheet India. Ready to build with us?

Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition at Razorpay, Apr 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos, On-site, Hiring across levels roles in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Strategy, Partnerships, Platforms, Product. Leading a team of recruitment superstars to build and scale the RazorpayX, Capital, Poshvine, EvolvHQ and Ezetap business. Responsible for building teams for CIO business(Banking and Risk) and Corporate function which includes Finance, Legal and People ops.

Manager - Talent Acquisition at Razorpay, Mar 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Chennai + Bengaluru, Hiring across levels for all roles in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Strategy, Partnerships. Leading a team of recruitment superstars to build and scale the RazorpayX, Capital, Poshvine and Ezetap business. Encourage a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate regular team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and training workshops to share best practices, industry trends, and innovative recruitment strategies

Lead - Talent Acquisition - Corporate Functions at Freshworks, Jun 2021 - Mar 2022 · 10 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Bringing in great talent and building teams in Freshworks. Experienced in Sales and Growth (GTM) Marketing, Customer Onboarding & Support(CXG Hiring), and Corporate functions - Finance & HR. Collaborating and leading programs for Employer Branding. I work closely with the senior leadership, reporting team, and key recruitment stakeholders globally to develop and execute outreach Via Glassdoor, surveys. Collaborating with teams for internal and external campaigns to scale up recruitment. Projects - Interview certification program, ATS Implementation - core team - testing and training module

Talent Acquisition Specialist - GTM - Sales, CX at Freshworks, Jun 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Passionate, driven, results-oriented recruiter with a flair for partnering with business and carving careers for promising candidates for our GTM functions across India and APAC. Believe in playing as one team, set benchmarks, forecast and track against hiring metrics and partner with different functions to scale. Responsible for achieving recruitment metrics. i.e Diversity, offer to Join, Quality of Hire, Cost per Hire & TAT. Recognized as a key contributor in increasing gender diversity hiring for BU's managed. Increased conversion ratio, kept agency cost to less than 2% for the entire year. - Projects and Initiatives taken - Candidate Experience Survey, Delivering WoW moments to candidates (Spot Offer Program), Career Restart Program for Diversity hiring, Diversity and Inclusion campaign, ATS Implementation.

Team Lead Recruitment - IT Hiring at iOPEX Technologies Philippines Inc., Oct 2017 - May 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Chennai Area, India, Managed strategic hiring for iOpex across their offices based in US, UK, Chennai, Blore and Manila. Team lead for ramping up digital ad operations unit - India and APAC - Hired SDE/SDE 2, Network Engineer, Project Managers. -Build job vs talent pool competency alignment with hiring managers -Partner with placement cells of tier1/tier 2 colleges for targeted campus hiring. -Lead the campus hiring for RPA, IoT and automation related hiring for the year -Participating in HR audits. -Managing team of 5-6 recruiters to handle various critical positions related to RPA, IoT, Networking, Sales and Digital Ad Operations. -Training and mentoring team, managing weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting for the team performance and stakeholder meetings. - Scorecard for R&R, PMS. - Implemented DISC profiling assessment for Senior/ Executive hiring.

Talent Acquisition - Citiphones & Branch Banking at Citi, Apr 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Managing consumer banking hiring for entire South India and Rest of Maharashtra. Experienced in lateral and bulk hiring for operation and technology units in Citibank South India. Stakeholder Engagement and Vendor Management Tracking TA metrics HR Functional Consultant for Taleo Implementation

Education

Post graduate in business management, Human Resources Management and Services, Savitribai Phule Pune University

B.E, Computer, Mgm College Of Engineering & Technology