Sonya Sachdeva

• Led and streamlined knowledge management for: business and technical recruiting processes, interviewer and manager training resources, employer branding strategy based on specific hiring initiatives and spotlighting employee contributions •Served as AAPI ERG (employee resource group) Lead, advocating, celebrating and educating the diversity within the AAPI community and its allies • Owned full-cycle recruiting and hiring strategy for technical teams (Design, UX Research, Engineering) and several key business functions (Customer Success and Operations)

• Focused on DEI sourcing through targeted inclusive searches and retention strategies for Google Cloud hiring initiatives across technical solutions and customer engineers • Evaluated candidate leveling and managed the full-cycle recruitment process, including: senior leadership approvals, compensation negotiation and offer acceptance or decline • KPI’s included: sourcing a minimum of 5 underrepresented candidates weekly, average of 8 offer accept’s quarterly, and committed team quarterly goal of 74 hires (excluding attrition or internal mobility)

• Partnered with marketing hiring managers and consult with senior stakeholders to lead their hiring strategy • Sourced and managed full-cycle recruitment for passive and active marketing candidates through networking, direct approach, referrals, events etc. • Developed candidate, new hire, hiring manager, and recruiter experience to ensure staffing plans and candidate needs are met

Managed full-cycle recruiting process in Greenhouse by developing job descriptions, sourcing, screening, closing candidates and facilitating early stage on-boarding processes for new hires. • Executed diversity and inclusion best practices for hiring and evaluated future networking opportunities to engage with underrepresented talent pipeline • Partnered with hiring managers to grow staff across technical, program, marketing and operations teams, made 19 FTE hires (25% of FTE workforce)

• Led full-cycle recruiting process for full-time candidates and managed contractor/freelance negotiations • Reported metrics on hiring health and candidate experience to leadership and owned ATS management (Greenhouse)

Vitamin T provides carefully screened design and creative professionals on a freelance and temp-to-perm basis to mid-sized companies, ad agencies and startups. As a division of Aquent, the world's largest creative staffing firm, we’re definitely not your typical talent agency and more of matchmakers connecting you to your dream job.

• Full cycle on-boarding • Email marketing communications • Internal project management (marketing campaigns, impact development) • Experience in conceptualizing and creating point-of-sale materials, deploying turnkey marketing campaigns, tradeshow logistics

Accounts Included: Facebook, VMware Apps and HINT Water