Satyendra Kumar

13+ years of Talent Acquisition experience spanning full-cycle IT recruitment, leadership hiring, niche technology hiring, analytics and contingent workforce solutions across global geographies.

Talent Acquisition

Manager and hands-on technology recruiter with proven experience balancing team leadership, recruitment strategy, stakeholder management, and individual ownership of critical and senior-level hiring mandates. Extensive expertise in Technology, Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Product and Analytics hiring, including highly specialized and hard-to-fill positions. Proven track record of managing critical, senior and leadership hiring while partnering with senior business leaders and hiring managers to define recruitment strategy, talent requirements, market intelligence, interview processes, and successful offer closures.

Experienced in leading, mentoring, and guiding recruitment teams, driving recruiter productivity, pipeline reviews, sourcing strategies, candidate calibration, stakeholder engagement, and end-to-end recruitment delivery. Strong business partnering skills with the ability to work effectively with senior leadership, hiring managers, interview panels, and cross-functional stakeholders across multiple geographies and business functions. Hands-on expertise across the complete recruitment lifecycle, including workforce planning, requirement intake, sourcing, market mapping, passive candidate engagement, screening, interview management, stakeholder management, compensation negotiation, offer management, and onboarding.

Highly skilled in identifying and engaging passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, networking, referrals, job boards, talent mapping, market research, and targeted sourcing campaigns. Strong experience in leadership and executive hiring, as well as volume, lateral, niche-skill, campus, graduate, and internship hiring across R&D and technology organizations. Proficient in enterprise recruitment platforms and ATS including Ceipal, Greenhouse and SAP SuccessFactors along with LinkedIn Recruiter and leading job-board platforms.

Strong cross-industry exposure across Technology, Analytics, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, Telecom. Experienced in campus recruitment and early-career talent programs, including hiring fresh graduates and interns for technology and R&D organizations. Recognized for strong communication, presentation, negotiation, influencing, relationship management, and leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to operate as both a strategic TA leader and a hands-on individual contributor.

Talent Acquisition Manager (Global Hiring) at [24]7.ai Innovation Labs (2020-08 – 2026-10)

• Lead Talent Acquisition for Innovation Labs (R&D/Product Division) and GSS, managing end-to-end hiring across all levels for the Bangalore-based Innovation Labs/R&D Centre while continuing to operate as a hands-on recruiter for critical and business-priority positions.
• Manage global recruitment across India, Canada, USA and Australia, delivering leadership, niche, technical, and business-critical hiring mandates across multiple functions and geographies.
• Drive hiring across AI/ML, Data Science, Computer Vision, NLP, Speech Science, Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, SRE, DBA, Full Stack, Backend, Frontend, Salesforce, Network Engineering, IT and Non-IT functions.
• Partner directly with 25+ Hiring Managers and 70+ interview panel members, including Sr. Directors, VPs, SVPs, COO, CPO, CTO, CMO, CHRO and CSO, managing the recruitment lifecycle from requirement creation through candidate selection and offer closure.
• Manage and mentor a recruitment team, providing direction on hiring priorities, sourcing strategy, pipeline management, stakeholder engagement and closure of critical positions, while remaining personally hands-on with complex hiring mandates.
• Lead executive and leadership hiring for critical positions including VP – Data Science, Director – Data Science, Director – Voice Platform, Director – Product Management – Analytics, Sr. Engineering Manager, Sr. Director – AI Sales, SVP – Sales and Account Director/ADR, Principal SDE, Principal Devops, Technical Architect along with other senior management positions.
• Serve as a Lead Analytics/AI Recruiter, supporting hiring for Data Science and Research functions and conducting initial candidate assessments for Senior Data Scientists, Computer Vision Scientists/Engineers, AI Researchers, NLP Engineers, Speech Scientists, Data Analysts and Data Science Interns.
• Built and scaled the PRSE team from the ground up, owning the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy and hiring of the initial team to establish the function in India.
• Led a cost-optimization hiring initiative by building a dedicated team of SRE and DevOps professionals in India to provide coverage aligned with North American time zones, supporting operational efficiency and global business requirements.
• Delivered multiple niche, highly specialized and business-critical Data Science hires globally, partnering closely with senior leadership and technical stakeholders to identify, engage and close scarce AI/Data Science talent.
• Drive hands-on technology recruitment across all levels, covering Full Stack, Backend, Frontend, DevOps, SRE, Scrum Master, Salesforce, Network Engineering and other specialized technology roles supporting Engineering and R&D.
• Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies through LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, career sites, referrals, job boards and other talent channels to build pipelines for niche and hard-to-fill positions.
• Lead candidate compensation and HR discussions, aligning candidate expectations with organizational compensation frameworks and business requirements before offer release.
• Lead the annual campus and early-career hiring program for intern-to-FTE recruitment, managing the end-to-end process including institute engagement, candidate screening, interview coordination, selection and offer closure.

Recruitment Lead at Prolim Global Corporation (2016-05 – 2020-08)

• Lead end-to-end technology recruitment across Engineering, Product, Data and IT functions, covering junior to senior and leadership levels.
• Developed and executed talent acquisition strategies to attract high-quality professionals, including targeted referral campaigns and specialized sourcing initiatives for critical skill requirements.
• Managed multiple concurrent requisitions across various skill sets and seniority levels, ensuring timely pipeline development and closure of business-critical positions.
• Partnered closely with hiring managers, technical teams and business stakeholders to understand critical requirements, define candidate profiles, develop job descriptions and establish effective hiring strategies.
• Recruit for specialized technology roles including Software Engineers, Full Stack, Backend, Frontend, Java,.NET, Python, JavaScript, React, Node.js, DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Data Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, NLP, Computer Vision, QA, Automation, Salesforce, DBA, Network and Cybersecurity.
• Work closely with technical interview panels to establish structured interview processes, assessment stages and evaluation criteria for different technology roles.
• Track and analyze recruitment metrics including pipeline conversion, source effectiveness, time-to-fill, interview-to-offer ratio, offer acceptance and joining ratios to improve technology hiring outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement in technical recruitment processes, sourcing strategies, interview coordination and candidate experience across the recruitment lifecycle.

Talent Acquisition Lead at Ramsoft Systems Inc. (2015-02 – 2016-05)

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for technical and niche positions across software engineering, IT, cloud, data, DevOps, infrastructure, ERP and enterprise applications.
• Conduct technical screening and competency-based assessments to evaluate candidates on technical expertise, problem-solving ability, project experience, communication and cultural fit.
• Manage the complete recruitment lifecycle from requirement intake, sourcing and screening through interview coordination, feedback management, offer negotiation and onboarding.
• Track recruitment metrics such as Time-to-Fill, Time-to-Hire, Source Effectiveness, Offer-to-Join Ratio, Quality of Hire and Pipeline Conversion and provide regular hiring reports to leadership.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes through automation, ATS optimization, recruitment

B. Tech – Templecity Institute of technology & Engineering (B.P.U.T University) (2013)

Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning – The University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business) (2020)

PGP in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning – Great Lakes Institute of Management (2021)