Kumar Saurabh

Created an Executive Recruiting Operations Portfolio on AI-assisted recruiting, talent intelligence, and modern sourcing. Researched AI recruiting tools, sourcing strategies, and labor market trends. Developed frameworks for pipeline management, candidate engagement, and process optimization while advancing expertise through independent research and portfolio development.

Delivered 70+ technical and leadership hires with a 95% offer acceptance rate. Reduced LATAM engineering time-to-fill from 45 to 28 days through strategic talent mapping. Increased diverse candidate representation by 18%, coached recruiters, and built KPI dashboards that provided hiring managers with real-time pipeline visibility.

Built, hired, trained, and managed a 17-member recruiting team as hiring scaled from 0 to 70 annually in 22 months. Promoted to Recruitment Manager within a year. Delivered 30 technical hires, reduced time-to-fill from 45 to 34 days by optimizing JobDiva and interview processes, and designed onboarding, performance, and career frameworks for the recruiting function.

Improved passive candidate engagement by 25% via virtual coding challenges and webinars, and streamlined technical assessments to achieve a 95% fill rate in niche roles within a 35-day cycle.

Managed global hiring across BFSI, healthcare, and retail tech, handling 10–15 concurrent requisitions and improving team productivity by 20% within six months through new sourcing benchmarks and recruiter mentoring.

Led high-volume tech and non-tech recruitment, cutting hiring cycles by 12% through process improvements and strict SLA alignment.

Completed an Executive MBA focused on IT and HR management, enhancing strategic talent acquisition and HR leadership capabilities.

Awarded a BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computing, providing foundational knowledge in computing and IT practices.