Sunita Gopal

510-***-**** ad2lue@r.postjobfree.com

Technical Recruiter

Strategic recruiting and tech recruiting experience. Adept at collaborating with hiring managers, sourcing candidates, and tracking candidates pipelines. Expertise designing and implementing roadmaps that align with organizational goals to build a highly skilled and performing teams

Areas of Expertise

Market Research Sourcing & Mining Pipeline Management Data Analysis Cross Functional Collaboration & Partnerships Communication Closing Strategies Succession Planning Client Management Offer Negotiation

Experience

Amazon January 2022 - Present

Technical Recruiter

Designed and implemented the team’s vision, strategy, and roadmap to deliver for the business priorities and mission with a highly performing team.

●Developed candidate pipelines with internal and external talent to hire talent for Amazon Science in Search and Alexa as part of the Global Strategic Recruiting using multiple channels to maintain long term engagement.

●Provided operational plan for driving performance and results while collaborating with cross-functional partners which includes HRBP, Compensation, Industry Recruiting and Student Programs.

●Built strategic relationships and partnerships with University Hubs to deliver on AI conferences and events, aligning with business goals and stakeholders to bring on Post Docs and Visiting Scholars.

●Created a solid leadership bench for succession planning, and worked on branding strategy with commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and maintained a strong consultative partnership with the hiring teams.

●Coordinated annual planning, organized and participated in regional, national and international recruitment events, open house events to build a community AI/ML talent across the industry at all levels.

●Mentored and coached the team on market research, sourcing, mining, evaluation, offer negotiation, closing strategies and evaluated the process to improve efficiency and productivity with goals, KPIs and metrics and client management.

Facebook September 2017 - January 2022

Technical Recruiter

Led ML Leadership recruiting team and delivered through the team of sourcers and recruiters. Spearheaded the function for hiring across product ML (Ads, Instagram, Marketplace, FB Watch, Feed, Groups) & AI and Research teams (CV, NLP).

●Provided conference and event strategy along with headcount planning and recruiting strategy.

●Partnered with engineering leaders to build engagement strategy, closing strategy and comp exception strategy while managing speed and volume for hiring engineering managers.

●Conceptualized and launched a new interview type for ML-Infra company wide.

●Reported weekly, monthly and quarterly to clients and hired for software leadership in product, platforms infrastructure and machine learning for principal level talent.

Microsoft May 2015 - August 2017

Strategic Recruiter - Pivotal Talent

Identified talent for niche roles focused on 65+ Pivotal talent, researched the AI domains - Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Speech, NLP, Information Retrieval etc and Hired for Microsoft Research, Bing, Cortana, A&E, HoloLens, Xbox, Office 365, Azure

●Evaluated ROI and drove results for data science and ML conferences/networking events for branding.

●Built reporting and metrics to help leadership make informed decisions and influence recruiting strategy in complex markets. Provided in-depth analysis and market intelligence for data and applied scientists

●Site Reliability Engineering - Successfully hired Senior Leadership (CVP-Azure), Partner/Director Level, Principal Level Managers and Principal Engineers.

oDeveloped a scalable strategy to map out talent pools and identify talent trends.

oInfluenced multiple Microsoft teams to represent SRE in conferences worldwide

oPartnered with HR, Recruiters and Hiring Managers to hire game changers for SRE as cross functional advisor and resident expert for SRE Recruiting including Early Career.

Ozlo Inc., (acquired by FB) July 2014 - June 2015

Talent Lead

●Transitioned to another stealth mode Greylock Startup to build the AI Chatbot and helped with organizational design and talent management for career growth.

●Hired early team in search relevance, intent, machine learning, NLP, linguists and product.

Pure Storage July 2013 - July 2014

Talent Lead

●Transitioned to Pure Storage to build the recruiting function at Greylock portfolio company.

●Hired and managed a recruiting team and led the team to 3 exceed goals to hire engineering talent for a variety of roles including Test, DevOps, IT, Facilities, Hardware and Special Projects.

●Built the university recruiting team and hired new grads and interns. This included coming up with compensation, intern housing stipends, closing strategies, events and building university relationships.

●Partnered with the engineering team to come up with interview questions, coding challenges and marketing collateral which was used for college recruiting season.

●Migrated to a new ATS (Greenhouse) and customized it for reporting, offer workflow, new features, integration with HackerRank and tracking.

Greylock Partners May 2013 - August 2013

Talent Partner

Worked closely with enterprise startups with the following technologies: SaaS for consumerized enterprise, big data, storage, networking and emerging technologies. provided sourcing, optimized interview process and closing strategies.

●Helped the portfolio companies build strong engineering organizations for success and connecting talent at a massive scale in a competitive landscape.

●Worked closely with Sumologic, Skyhigh Networks, Avi Networks and built the initial talent function for Pure Storage. Ozlo, previously known as Jack, was AI Chatbot app that just went out of stealth and worked with them in early stages.

Education

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science - California State University - East Bay

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry - Delhi University

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