Priyanka Jha

StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. - Full-Cycle Recruiting : Led end-to-end hiring for engineering, data, and product roles across India and global markets. Developed efficient, scalable hiring processes emphasizing speed, quality, and candidate experience. - Strategic Partnership : Collaborated directly with engineering leaders, and product heads to define roles, team structures, and hiring priorities. Provided market insights, competitive intelligence, and salary benchmarking. *Sourcing & Outreach : Proactively sourced top talent, especially passive candidates, through platforms like LinkedIn, Instahyre, and referrals. Built and maintained a robust pipeline for key tech roles including backend, frontend, data, DevRel, SRE, and TSE. - Process Building & Optimization : Established and refined recruiting processes, from ATS workflows to interview loops and feedback mechanisms. Introduced structure and consistency without compromising speed. - Talent Branding & Candidate Experience : Collaborated with marketing or independently enhanced the startup’s brand as an employer of choice through careers pages, social media, and blog posts. Championed a warm, clear, and fast candidate experience, critical in early-stage hiring. *Offer Strategy & Closing : Worked closely with leadership to craft compelling offers encompassing equity, growth story, and mission. Negotiated and closed candidates with multiple offers. - Data & Reporting : Tracked hiring funnel metrics to optimize conversion rates and time-to-hire. Reported progress to leadership weekly or biweekly, often via Sheets or Slack.

Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company transforming security operations for large enterprises by preventing security incidents before they happen. Ambient.ai has a globally deployed footprint with several F500 companies. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less, while also improving their security posture - My role is proactive and comprises the following tasks: Understanding, internalizing and articulating the organization's vision, mission, and values. Monitoring the organization's industry to bring the best talent to our AI Platform team in India - Collaborated directly with founders, engineering leaders, and product heads to define roles, team structures, and hiring priorities. Provided market insights, competitive intelligence, and salary benchmarking. - Responsible for closing software engineering roles including multiple levels (ICs and Leadership) for Platform, Backend, Ecosystems and Data Infra teams - I am also responsible for building the content and the digital marketing team out here - Own hiring strategy, Market Analysis · Market Mapping · LinkedIn Recruiter · Global Sourcing, Interviewing · Negotiation - Develop and manage the recruitment process through sourcing, screening and qualifying candidates, briefing and preparing candidates, organizing interviews, Offer and engagement - Talent Mapping and Talent Mining of qualified leads via Open Web and other external social networks - Using a Greenhouse ATS for tracking the profile status

We are building the crypto economy – a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto. - Hiring exceptional, crypto-forward talent. Owned hiring and recruiting for India hub Tech leadership roles (L6, L7, IC 6 & IC 7) across teams - Cloud, Risk, International and Compliance along with building People Operations team - Talent advisor to the business and provide guidance to build great teams. Build proactive sourcing strategies to engage and nurture the pipeline of passive talents and take steps to approach people from diverse backgrounds. Great understanding of different roles in the industry with an understanding of high-performance hiring standards - Collaborating with global teams as "Change Chanpian" for initiatives and projects

- Responsible for Building the Tech Org by Hiring Rockstar Software development Engineer, Architect, Data Engineer, Engineering Manager, Product Managers and Mobile Engineer (Android/iOS) - Managing a team for 3 Recruiters (RPO model) and 2 coordinators - Acting as a trusted advisor to Tech leaders , driving the complete workforce Hiring plan and assess emerging workforce changes ; e.g. skills, talent mix, understanding market Trends, prioritizing roles to be hired, etc - Create and implement staffing strategies to deliver highly qualified candidates by sourcing, research and delivering a high caliber pipeline while assisting in meeting aggressive hiring goals as a team - Responsible for the Lateral Hiring & Leadership Hiring for functions across Flipkart Onetech and Flipkart Wholesale - Maintain current knowledge of emerging technology to stay abreast of innovative sourcing trends, social media outlets and best talent acquisition channels - Engaging & Influencing stake holders during hiring process for building a high performing team - Ensuring most of the Recruitment is done through self sourcing for Leadership & Lateral roles, which enables Recruitment cost cutting & bringing down Turnaround Time - Enhancing Employee referral program for having a healthy source mix - Encouraging diversity hiring by adopting Innovative methods in Entire recruiting cycle - Demonstrated understanding of the talent market and how to research, develop, and execute against a plan to produce talent for immediate and future needs - Established a strong connect with candidates and set clear expectations on role scope, aspiration mapping, engineering teams, leveling, challenging problem spaces etc. Ensuring Great Candidate experience & NPS, encompassing the entire hiring process - Positioned as a trusted career adviser from initial connect to closure of process and inculcated the same best practice across my team - Working in an environment of rapid change and changing needs

- Hire for various niche roles across the Engineering (Front End & Back end), Information Security, SREs, Data Engineers, Android/iOS - Manage end-to-end Talent Acquisition process - Drive strategic initiatives to better engage with business groups and build a stronger partnership and credibility - Prepare talent mapping, Industry trends and utilize data-driven hiring plan to solve Hiring problems - Automate Recruitment Dashboards which improved data transparency, usage and clarity - Program Manager large scale hiring events across India Additional : - Equip & train TA Coordinators on LinkedIn usage with an emphasis on proactive pipeline building and engagement - Program Coordinator for various Engg and Product events - #Include event, etc - Part of multiple Org wide HR initiatives

- Worked closely with Hiring Managers to drive the recruitment strategies - Actively worked on Employer Branding initiatives for attracting passive individuals - Manage all aspects of job requisitions including developing a deep understanding of business requirements, job postings, searching talent, screening candidates, coordinating interviews, salary negotiation, offer roll-out, onboarding - Prepare and track Weekly Hiring Metrics/Dashboards - Manage multiple TA projects to improve efficiency and productivity - Involve in Campus/Graduate hiring for Org wide engineering teams - Program Manager large scale hiring events across India

- Owned end to end hiring need for the Engineering teams. - Possess a research-oriented approach towards closing strategic roles and have generated a high number of viable leads - Methodology: LinkedIn, Internal Database, Employee Referral Programs, Open Source Projects, and Open Web Search - Consistent performer with a reputation of getting things done! - Serve as the first point of contact for potential candidates and stakeholders. -Executed 30+ hiring events for various business groups across roles and locations

• Hiring for JTAC - Head Hunting – Business Engagement - Candidate Management - Prepare Hiring Plan & Working Strategies - Market Intelligence – Sourcing/tangent sourcing -- Talent Pipe Lining/Mapping - Relationship building - Niche Skill Hiring - Time management - Overall management of the entire Recruitment cycle - Facilitating Internal Job Rotation - On Boarding - Recruitment Analysis/ Metrics • Responsible for end-to-end recruitment for the multiple product engineering/support business units in India. Partnering with Business leaders and Hiring managers to come with different solutions for the staffing needs to meet the hiring targets • Staffing & Work Force Planning SPOC for multiple Product Engineering Groups which includes account management, people management, HR interviewing, compensation fitments for offers & on-boarding candidates • Provided end-to-end recruitment support in building JTAC support team for L2/L3 engineer and Leadership requirement • Overall my specialties in Juniper have been Social recruiting, TA Business Partnering, Candidate experience, ATS, Boomerang hiring, Technical leadership recruiting and market intelligence.

• Delivered all facets of recruiting success within Google. Worked directly with multiple staffing partners (Recruiters/Sourcers/Hiring Managers) to close technical/non-technical positions across geo locations • Met or exceeded OKRs every quarter. Sought and connected the best and brightest technical talent for Google, who's organizing the World's information to make it universally accessible and useful • Performing everything from sourcing and talent mapping to candidate research. The role also required meeting Hiring Managers to understand their specific area needs and the positions they were trying to fill. Some of the positions that I focused on were: Mobile Engineers (iOS & Android), Software Engineers (Java, Python, C++, Machine Learning, AI, etc), Front-End Software Engineers, UI/UX Engineers, and other niche roles • Experience in conducting extensive research for candidates from Github, Stack Overflow,, LinkedIn, Facebook, Quora, Google Plus, Twitter, Google search and Tangent sourcing • Manage Training program for the team  Plan, schedule and coordinate training for new joiners and team members  Identify skill gap and develop training courses and program  Training for all the newcomers on Boolean search and creative sourcing • Manage many short terms projects and provide analysis, insights and reports • Actively involved in identifying and providing solutions for process improvement and resource utilization

• Handling end to end IT Recruitment • Understanding clients requirement • Sourcing profiles from various sources like Quora, Linkedin, job portals, references, internal database etc. • In many cases preparing JDs to be shared with the candidates • Post Ads in appropriate Job sites and manage responses • Screening and short listing profiles based on the competencies required for the role • Evaluating candidates by conducting preliminary interviews • Scheduling interviews (Telecon/VC/In-Person etc.), coordinating with the client and the candidates • Gathering post interview feedback from the client and passing on to the candidates • Helping candidate and client during salary negotiation process • Ensure Joining of the Candidate • Use to handle client relationship management

• Handling recruitment for different technologies in testing, development, telecom, multimedia, maintenance & support, SAP, CA & HRD etc • Initial Screening of profiles for fitment check according to selection criteria • Scheduling interview of shortlisted candidates and follow up with proper coordination • Maintaining tracker for candidates with updated status, control sheet & Master sheet on excel • Working on SAP for updating status of candidates

• Getting requirements from the business team through team lead.Taking care of lateral hiring i.e. from 2 year to 20 years • Sourcing resumes through in-house database, Job Portals (i.e. Naukri.com, Monster.com,), Employee Referrals and Social Networks like LinkedIn • Pre-screen and qualify candidates through phone interviews, ensuring that when candidates are interviewed • Coordinating with scheduler for interviews (Weekdays & Weekends) • Following the candidates and make sure that candidates are on boarded • Maintain accurate applicant tracking files for all the candidates considered for a specific position and follow up of regular work status on requirements and resume submissions. Working on Smart Track & PeopleSoft