Rita S.

• Founding Talent Partner for Samsara India; playing a pivotal role in establishing hiring strategy and presence in India, EMEA & North America. • Built R&D; and G&A; organizations from 0 → 25+ hires, including senior ICs, managers, and leadership roles. • Partner closely with senior leadership as a trusted talent advisor on workforce planning and hiring decisions. • Operating Model: Weekly talent syncs with senior leadership on hiring priorities, org design, and bar calibration; quarterly workforce planning and headcount reviews; real-time advisory on market data, talent availability, and hiring trade-offs to enable fast, high-quality decisions. • Scaled teams across Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, Sales Ops, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Internal Audit, Legal, Tax & Accounting. • Used AI extensively to automate repetitive tasks, enhance sourcing efficiency, and improve recruiter productivity. • Designed and implemented structured hiring rubrics and scorecard templates, enabling consistent interviewer signals and stronger hiring decisions. • Driving recruiting process improvements by solving problems collaboratively with business leaders. • Leading & mentoring a team of 2 recruiters, establishing strong TA foundations. • Introduced a comprehensive Candidate Experience program, improving NPS from 52 → 68 and offer-to-joiner ratio from 70% → 86%. • Recognized for high interview-to-offer conversion, DEI hiring impact, and upholding a high hiring bar. • Consistently overachieved hiring targets (110–120%) while maintaining quality and DEI goals. • Improved pipeline efficiency with Manager Phone Screen → Offer conversion consistently at 30–35%. • Nominated for Top Performer Recruiting Workshop (San Francisco); participated in leadership discussion with CEO Sanjit Biswas.

Hiring Lead- APJ

Founding Recruiter for Technical, G&A function in India- APJ & EMEA

Extensively involved in full recruitment life cycle. Worked with the relevant stakeholders (Business Head / Delivery Head / Function Head/ Line Managers etc) for talent acquisition. Vendor Management, quality of hires, and regular interaction with vendors for acquisition of consultants. Planning & creating recruiting strategies and executed to increase the deliverables. 

Executed end-to-end recruitment cycle, leading a practice for Wipro Analytics Division. Involved in hiring at all levels. Closely worked with business and client stakeholders to understand the hiring needs and executed best strategies for it. Managed 80-90 requisitions at any given point of time and closed the same within SLA. Strong sourcing skills in active as well as passive searching (Naukri, Monster, Social media, Employee Referral, etc.). Organised Employee Referral Campaigns, Diversity & Inclusion Programmes.

Extensively involved in full recruitment life cycle from getting the job requisition from staffing coordinators & hiring managers to the final selection of the candidate. Sourcing quality resumes through sources- Naukri, Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn, Employee Referral etc