Rathish Narayanan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Singapore, Sg

Addison, Texas, Us

Heading Talent Acquisition for India, APAC and Middle East, complete ownership of talent acquisition strategy and execution for all hiring done in the region/s, responsible for transforming the talent acquisition function scale from scratch to support aggressive hiring goals in the highly competitive Cyber Security Saas based software product industry.Evaluate, transform and execute the recruiting strategy for all India, APAC and Middle East regions to streamline end to end recruiting but not limited to advanced sourcing, Software Interventions, new model governance, KPI / metric – DATA driven model to recruit to achieve 300% growth.Build a best-in-class recruiting engine and operating model, with an extensive knowledge base of sourcing, screening, and selecting the best candidates in the market.Provided leadership and guidance to the global executive team on strategic initiatives and actions that are required.Partnered with HRBP and business leaders to do manpower planning and budgeting to support the massive growth trajectory of the firm. Managed high-performance experienced Talent Acquisition team, up to 20 members including Senior Recruiters, Program lead, Sourcing Specialists, Recruiting Coordinators, RPO and Contract resources. Leveraged real-time analytics and insights to drive both short-term and long-term success, analyzed each metrics such as but not limited to Source mix, pipeline growth, Interview success, offer acceptance rates, new hire quality and cost, and candidate feedback scores to inform their decision-making.Manage strategic partnerships with RPO, staffing, executive search and technology vendors to ensure mutually beneficial and productive partnership. Establish and track key recruitment metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the talent acquisition process and make data-driven decisions. Financial responsibility to monitor, track, manage and report recruitment budget and metrics to ensure return on recruitment budget investment.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Played a key advisory role on all talent acquisition strategies for startups, product organizations and incumbent to set up recruitment and employer branding initiatives.Ensures mechanisms to measure team effectiveness are relevant and effective.Brought in external and contemporary thinking (i.e., data, insights and research) to drive innovationImplements recruiting transformation to build out new support models. Led projects with increasing scale and complexity Manages programs through completionBuilt best in class customer success and delivery team for seamless executionContinuously innovate and update content / best practices /‘engagement models’ that can help deliver delight at all customer life stagesWork with product team to develop product offerings that meet the needs of our customers, drive new markets and expand existing market presence, and generate ROI.Partner with customers to identify their business challenges and work with the product and tech teams to build a successful strategy for these customers.Conduct quarterly reporting and case reviews to spot trends, proactively identify potential issues, and offer tailored release recommendations to meet stability, performance, and new feature requirements

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Lead India wide hiring responsibility (Bangalore and Chennai) for an Investment Banking Business Unit of 2500 employees strength, Engineering Stream & Innovation depts across Technology division, leadership hiring, University Relation (co-manage)with a sharp focus on seamless execution.Consulting business heads, anchor end to end stakeholder management and formulate, implement monthly/quarterly/annual hiring plan & recruiting strategies and drive best in class, Innovative, attractive and cost effective recruitment strategy to ENGAGE, ATTRACT and HIRE high-end technology experts for Digital Transformation technology projects but not limited to setting up CoE’s from scratch in Data science, Bigdata, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Automation, Open source & OthersDrive talent attraction, Employer Branding, Talent engagement, Innovative recruitment & go-to market strategies in line with business context/priorities.Produce critical recruiting analytics and market intelligence on talent landscape of external talent market and by collecting and analyzing data with quantitative and qualitative approaches would go extra mile to implement change.Lead and mentor the team of recruiters and responsible for their productivity, KPI’s, PDP, Appraisal rating, career counseling, Escalations & grievances. Involve in strategic recruitment operations and related metrics on cost per hire, Time to offer, TAT, process and policy etc.Train recruiters on current technology trends along associated business context and advanced sourcing session on What MORE in traditional sourcing and WHAT NeXt such as X-Ray, Boolean, GITHUB, Stackoverflow, Quora, Flip Search & other passive tools periodically.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for the design, delivery, execution and assessment of recruitment strategies in support of the talent acquisition priorities for both India and Global Hiring (USA, Japan, UK & EU).Interacted with C-level executives on talent forecasting needs and implement effective recruiting strategies for all open positions globally.Led a team of recruiters involve in full-cycle recruiting which included research, head hunting, screening, Interviewing, negotiating and follow-up’s till onboard.Developed and implemented Global staffing/Sourcing effective strategies in line with business needs in a dynamic environment and determined appropriate recruiting sources for all position in India and participated in global (USA, Japan, UK & EU) sourcing mandates.Active and sole contributor in building social media channel i.e. LinkedIn Career page – grew followers from 2k to 19k which acquired attention of CEO.Provided market intelligence report on availability of talent pool, talent landscape, market mapping etc.Managed the implementation and customization of the applicant tracking system that optimized the dept efficiency by 50%. Established a common platform for employee branding that created a seamless and smooth experience for prospective applicants and increased traffic by 50% to the company website.Anchored end to end stakeholder management, candidate experience, sourcing and interviewing portfolios for experienced talent search thru social media hiring to leverage on social community websites like Boolean, Github, stackoverflow, Google, Twitter, X-Ray, Flip Search, Peel back and thru social talent sites.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Led & trained 2 different sourcing teams’ conventional (Direct, websites, employee referral & jobsites) and non – conventional channels (X-ray, Google, Facebook, Flip and other social talent sits) of 8 members.Collaborate with business unit leaders in driving sourcing strategy and aligned to business goalsGathered requirement from stakeholders and interact with delivery managers and practice heads & developed strong relationship team with stakeholders to well understand about the requirements.Prepared daily/weekly/Quarter – on –Quarter dashboards of team to dept DRM’s respectively.Interacted with TA marketing teams for various processes of ER campaigns and job requirement mailers to employees as and when necessaryHead hunted based upon candidate’s suitability and initiate proactive hiring as and when necessary for Niche and super Niche skills.Contributed towards branding the “career page” on Facebook and keen member to form the “Centre of Excellence” team it excelled in passive sourcing channels.Complete ownership of the requirement in getting it closed through both the conventional and non-conventional sources and monitoring the progress made in fulfilling the same.Sell the brand WIPRO with each candidate and make them WoW experience.Adhere to the process in fulfilling the recruitment cycle with the company standards.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

• Handling End to End Recruitment process for Internal/External requirements• Handled recruitment executives and driving them to achieve targets – in terms of sourcing candidates, submissions, interviews and closures.•Reporting to the Director of the Indian Operations and providing constant feedback on team performance, successes and failures.• Data basing / Hire craft database churning and filtering – culling and allocating various sourcing segments into a data warehouse build and maintain stronger centralised candidate data pools.• Preparation of Reports, Performance Sheets and keeping a track of the regular progress of the team, vis-à-vis the work requirements.• Training and handling the entire recruiting life-cycle - from obtaining the job openings, researching the openings, sourcing the candidates, prescreening, scheduling interviews with the technical panel, negotiations, closing the hire and maintaining the candidate in the position for both Permanent & Contractual positions.• Dynamic Market / Resume data gathering and response to Candidate Salary requests from Presales• Run pilot campaigns to test efficacy of response to emailing / job postings / web advertising• Employee referral response and feedback• Expertise in Sourcing, Screening, Cold calling, HR Interviews, Offer Making, Offer Negotiation, On boarding• Interacting on a constant basis with various business units to understand the manpower requirement and design a plan for hiring quality resource• Experience in Volume / Lateral & Walk-in interviews• Generating reports on daily basis through MIS

Us

 Responsible for handling requirements from US based direct clients. Identifying the right candidates residing in US or candidates holding valid US work permit, by searching jobsites like monster,dice,google and internal database and referrals. Discussing the details with the short listed candidates, conducting personal interview, matching the skills with requirement and negotiating rates for submission Candidate Relationship Management such as serving as first point of contact and counseling of candidates between projects Coordinate with sub-contracting companies for prospective candidates Negotiate hourly rates / Salaries with the candidates / Sub contractors Manage resume database using application packages (resumate) Extensive experience in hiring H1B, Green Card Holders and US Citizens. Clear understanding of Corp – Corp, 1099, W2 and C2H employment.

Responsible to adhere to the Key Result Areas earmarked for the program.Responsible for handling Non IT requirements and identifying apt candidates for the requirementAdapt to different programs as required by management and produce results irrespective of transition time consideration.Discussing the details with the short listed candidates and conducting personal interviewActive participation in team meetings for optimum performance of the team.Generating weekly and monthly reports of team members.Motivate team members to take ownership of every case to provide end-to-end resolution. Tracked the performance of the agents on a regular basis to understand the areas of concern and took appropriate action by working hand-in-hand with the checking team.