Rithesh Shetty

• Lead global Talent Acquisition for Exotel across APAC and the US aligning hiring strategy with business expansion plans and delivering a 30 percent increase in hiring capacity. • Recruit talent across Engineering, Product, GTM and corporate functions while strengthening university hiring programs resulting in a 20 percent improvement in campus conversion rates. • Partner with CXO stakeholders on workforce planning and talent strategy contributing to an 18 percent reduction in time to fill. • Scale and manage the Talent Acquisition team while improving recruitment processes and governance resulting in a 20 percent improvement in hiring predictability. • Implement AI driven sourcing tools and ATS platforms improving recruiter productivity by 20 percent and reducing cost per hire by 20 percent. • Drive employer branding initiatives that increased candidate engagement and improved company reputation across talent markets.

• Led R&D hiring across India and the US managing approximately 700 roles annually while driving vendor governance and stakeholder alignment improving fulfillment ratio by 40 percent. • Managed a recruitment team of 18 including two managers while improving SLA adherence to 75 percent of roles. • Built a contract hiring program to support engineering functions enabling faster project ramp ups. • Played a key role in Smart Recruiters ATS implementation including EVP alignment and global internal mobility processes that enabled 12 percent internal talent movement.

• Led full time and contract hiring across Engineering, Product, Operations and corporate functions supporting more than 300 hires annually including leadership hiring. • Implemented recruitment metrics and structured hiring processes improving time to offer by 15 percent. • Led employer branding and ATS implementation improving candidate experience score to 4.7.

• Built GE Digital’s technology organization scaling engineering teams to approximately 1,800 employees over three years. • Sustained hiring velocity of approximately 600 hires annually supporting product development transformation. • Implemented competency based hiring and bar raiser frameworks improving quality of hire. • Led leadership hiring, campus hiring and diversity hiring initiatives increasing diversity representation from 27 percent to 35 percent. • Managed recruitment managers and RPO teams supporting large scale hiring programs.

Set up office in Bangalore and built a team of 18 which comprised of Recruiters, inside sales specialists and application developers Curated set of clients and managed to get regular business from them

Lead TA for few entities in GE India Stakeholder & Team Management

Devising Hiring plan & strategy Technology hiring Key Stakeholder management People Management Driving HR initiatives & projects ATS Implementation

Recruiting professionals (campus & lateral) across skills in IT, stakeholder management, reporting and Leadership hiring.