My Expertise

An AI-first talent leader with a track record of scaling organizations and building high-performance teams, leading the growth of Rakuten India Development Center from 100+ to 1,500+ employees while architecting core Analytics, Research, and Data Science functions to meet enterprise demand at speed and scale. Drives end-to-end executive and senior leadership hiring in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders, aligning workforce plans and hiring roadmaps to business strategy while maintaining a proactive pipeline informed by real-time market intelligence and talent insights.

Pioneered AI-driven prompt engineering within Talent Acquisition, cutting time-to-fill by 20–30%, improving candidate quality and fit by 15–25%, lifting recruiter productivity by 25–35%, and increasing offer acceptance by 5–10% through personalized candidate communications—while reducing bias via standardized, AI-generated interview frameworks. Orchestrates automated TA tooling to scale operations, surface hiring trends, and sharpen competitive strategy across emerging markets; complements this with Skills Gap Analyses and enterprise-wide Inclusion and Diversity initiatives to build a future-ready workforce.

Champions industry–academia collaboration, spearheading a “Moonshot Project” with leading universities and Rakuten India to accelerate applied AI/ML innovation, strengthen research partnerships, and build a specialized AI talent pipeline that elevates the company’s market reputation. As Program Lead for Rakuten Global Academy, designs and scales upskilling programs that boost organizational capability, career mobility, and succession readiness across critical roles.

Leads Early Career hiring and university engagements, including an international internship program with Chuo University (Japan), delivering high-impact cross-cultural experiences and deepening global academic partnerships to fuel long-term talent supply.

Positioned at the intersection of AI, talent strategy, and organizational scale, combines measurable outcomes with a people-first leadership philosophy—clear vision, data-backed decision-making, and inclusive practices—to deliver durable competitive advantage in fast-evolving markets.