Lokesh Shekar Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

San Francisco, California, Us

Leading the TA function for Uber's Infra, Data, Compute Engineering, Search and Ad-Tech eco-system across APAC.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led the Global Talent Acquisition function for Business verticals, Executive Hiring (Tech, Product, and Corporate) and Advisory charters.Owned and delivered large scale TA programs for PayPal's growth charter spanning across Lending, Infra (Search, Compute Engineering, Distributed Systems, Data and Machine Learning), Enterprise Cyber Security and Crypto offerings across APAC and EMEA.Managed a diverse and geographically distributed team of Talent Acquisition specialists / leads, coached and mentored individuals to achieve their true potential.Led key programs across Compensation & Benefits, Talent Retention, Tech Training, Employer Branding, Executive Search and built multiple CoE's from ground-up.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

- Led the Talent Acquisition team of Principal Recruiters and Search specialists for Executive hiring efforts (Tech, Product and Corporate functions) along with an advisory portfolio for BU’s in INDIA and the UK to help identify niche talent to transform TESCO ‘s core engineering and business ecosystem.- Program Managed large-scale initiatives impacting Talent Acquisition, Talent Mobility, Talent Branding, Evaluation Criteria, Tech Transformation Hiring and spearheaded new Talent Acquisition framework, Compensation Restructuring and University Hiring with the objective of making processes efficient.- Advocated proactive recruitment methods aiming at hiring for the future based on product roadmaps and deliverables vs the conventional way of recruitment. - Program managed Branding / Marketing events showcasing Tesco technology as a thought leader and employer of choice by working on various Campaigns (GIDS, NASSCOM Product Conclave, and Hackathons).- Hosted numerous workshops and boot camps to educate TA function on deciphering and articulating technology topics.- Program managed innovative and engaging campus programs, orientation training, and Mentor/coaching programs. - Was instrumental in onboarding the latest Recruiting trends/ new opportunities (wrote scripts for mining mail ID's from StackOverflow, trace contact credentials from the source code of GitHub API...) - Hosted numerous meet-ups inhouse and identified avenues to crowdsource ideas benefiting engineering/product functions with free of cost solutions, TA with a niche talent pool to engage and attract.

Gurugram (Gurgaon), Haryana, In

Talent Acquisition Lead for Senior / Executive Hiring across Cloud ecosystem, Distributed Engineering Teams across SCM, Fulfilment, and DevTools Engineering teams.Managed a team of Recruiters, TA Leads, and PM's for the advisory portfolio to scale Snapdeal’s cloud offering, PaaS, and SaaS portfolio against the likes of AWS and IBM Bluemix to tackle internet scale.

New York, Ny, Us

As a Talent Leader, I program managed and lead a team owning Technology Talent Acquisition, Exec Hiring, and advisory charter with a strategic and analytical approach to set up CoEs driving the engineering at scale from India for business outcomes impacting end-users and platforms. - Drove the TA CoE to define talent analysis and analytics, talent bench-marking, employer branding, vendor selection, and empanelment (IT and Non-IT), compensation bench-marking, and talent mapping initiatives.

Buffalo, New York, Us

Transitioned from a Recruiter to an Assistant Manager managing a team of 8 owning deliverables for volume-based, value-based and time-bound recruitment models.The Charter of the role included playing a pivotal role as a Consultant for IBM ISL, Virtusa, KPMG, and Global Foundries to help identify niche talent and define recruitment strategies to set up CoE's in India.Was part of the R&D Team of Myparichay, an innovative referral app that runs as a recommendation engine consuming facebook API’s – Myparichay was acquired by Shine.com.