Abhisha Kalra

I lead hiring for Adobe Analytics and Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO) within the Adobe Experience Platform, driving recruitment across North America. Partnering closely with Product and Engineering leaders, I help build the AI and Intelligence teams powering Adobe’s real-time personalization, analytics, and decisioning systems. Focus & Impact: Building core engineering teams across AI Agent Development, Prompt Engineering, Information Retrieval (RAG Systems), Machine Learning, and NLP Partnering with leaders across the US and Canada to define and execute the talent strategy for Adobe’s Intelligence Layer, enabling scalable, data-driven orchestration and analytics Leading searches for deep tech and applied AI talent, including engineers working on semantic retrieval, vector databases (FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone, Qdrant), and LLM-based systems Strengthening AJO’s transformation into an AI-powered decisioning platform by hiring top-tier talent driving retrieval optimization, semantic search, and real-time personalization

As part of Microsoft’s Azure Core hiring team, I specialize in connecting top engineering talent with opportunities that shape the future of cloud infrastructure across North America.

Recently relocated to Canada and actively navigating the transition into a new professional environment. Currently focusing on: -Gaining a deeper understanding of the Canadian job market and industry landscape -Expanding my professional network through meetups, webinars, and informational interviews -Staying engaged in my field by contributing to hiring communities, mentoring aspiring recruiters, and exploring short-term consulting or project-based opportunities I’m preparing to re-enter the workforce with renewed focus and a global perspective. My core expertise lies in tech hiring, stakeholder engagement, and inclusive talent strategies, but I’m also curious about adjacent areas—whether that’s HR Tech, Customer Success, or product-oriented roles where people and systems intersect. I’m open to opportunities where I can contribute meaningfully, collaborate with purpose-driven teams, and continue growing—personally and professionally

My role primarily is Account Management and recruitment for various products in the Creative Cloud business unit of Adobe. • Partnering with the Leadership & Hiring managers to drive an effective hiring strategy, developed tools like Hiring scorecards, act as an advisor on talent and market trends for Tech hiring in Adobe. • Responsible for setting up AI/ML Research lab for core products in Adobe. • Analysed data to uncover trends, redefine & streamline processes, optimized workflows, & introduced best practices to build inclusive standardized TA practices •Managing & executing recruitment cycle from sourcing to onboarding for all Tech roles • Lead & actively supported the Diversity & Inclusion charter from recruiting lens with a goal to create and strengthen the recruiting eco-system on key forms of diversity beyond gender. For Adobe core engineering products: * Ramped up the product development team for the business (40+ hires) in a span of 3 quarters across Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Search & Discovery team, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Security. * Completed market mapping for Technical Architects, Applied Researchers and Machine Learning Engineers required for technical roles across products. * Spearheaded Multi Solution Architects hiring (a OneAdobe initiative by the business). * Managed end to end recruitment for the 1st and one-of-a kind AI Research Lab (Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Firefly)

• Full Recruitment cycle: Understand the role, identify sources and channels of hiring, plan strategies, source and screen relevant candidates, plan and coordinate telephonic, video, in-person interviews, communicate timely feedback, offer negotiation & rollout and on-boarding. • Technology hiring: Partnered with the business to drive annual and quarterly plan to hire Application Developers (full stack, C++, UI) , Unity (AR/VR) developers or North America, EMEA and APJ market. Non-Technology roles include Product Managers. • Self-Sourcing: Creating outbound and social media sourcing strategies to attract potential talent and develop our brand. Candidate assessment on their strengths and weaknesses so that we can make lower risk hiring decisions. 0% agency usage using Job-boards and Job aggregators including LinkedIn Recruiter, Belong.co, X-ray searches on Google, GitHub, Stack overflow, Twitter, Cutshort.io, Hacker Earth. • Building Brand and Recruitment Marketing: Representing ThoughtWorks at networking events and building community by connecting with passive leads, have interesting conversations with potential candidates at conferences, and then creating and executing a strategy to follow up with them. • Recruitment Initiatives: Curated and participated in various initiatives like Knowledge sharing via webinars(#TWRecruitEd- First non-technical platform for Recruiters to share knowledge and network), Sourcing Hackathons, Driving hiring metrics through data, Playbook for remote interviewing, Creating passive recruitment strategies along with other regions so that they can benefit from the globally created resources • Hiring for Diversity & Inclusion: Making sure that we are creating an inclusive sourcing strategy that takes extraordinary steps to approach people from diverse backgrounds. • Creating exceptional candidate experiences: Making sure that the candidates are meeting the right set of people and they are taken care of at every stage of the process

• Involved in all stages of recruitment cycle (Sourcing, screening, scheduling, offer negotiations, offer rollout, onboarding etc. ) • Responsible for handling multiple accounts and stakeholders across North America, EMEA and APJ market • Handling a team of sourcers, sourcing for various skills, across different verticals and levels. • Responsible for planning, estimation, execution and building a proactive pipeline for upcoming requirements as per the organization structure.

Part of Senior Management and Leadership Hiring Team, I help my team acquire the best talent in the market for leadership roles across various domains.

I was working with one of the biggest IT firms in India and was in the core technology domain. I've nearly 18 months of experience in the software development sector where i was involved in the processes of software maintenance and testing for a large telecom solutions provider.