About

Amit Walter is a highly experienced and passionate HR professional with over 16 years of experience across various industry domains. He has a proven track record of successfully implementing and building HR processes and strategies. Amit's key strengths include thriving in high-growth environments, quickly understanding business needs to integrate HR strategies that facilitate synchronous growth of human and business capital, contributing to key business decisions, and advising leaders on best people practices. Currently, Amit is serving as the Director of Talent Acquisition at Shaadi.com, where he is responsible for heading the Talent Acquisition function, owning and promoting the Shaadi employer brand, and managing hiring for 18+ locations with a team of 15+ recruiters. He has revamped the hiring processes, pre-boarding, and onboarding programs, and leveraged hiring platforms like TechGIG and Recruitee (ATS) along with data-driven decisions regarding cost-effective hiring channels. His efforts have resulted in an increase in application rate by 77%, pipeline speed by 64%, employee referral by 42%, and reduced the offer drop rate by 61% and consultant use by 14%. Amit has delivered key leadership hiring and resolved tech talent crunch during ‘20-‘21 by early adoption of hiring from Up-Skilling Schools. He has consistently delivered critical staffing at 93% and sales & service hiring TAT of 96%. He has also benchmarked compensation and benefits across 65+ consumer tech companies to build in-house data. Amit has delivered campus hiring from top B-Schools for product and marketing and NITs for technology teams. He has conceptualized and redesigned a career page for employee advocacy to build an employer brand. He has implemented a candidate experience program for better quality candidates and increased employer brand awareness and built an employer branding program to promote Shaadi on social media (LinkedIn, Instagram, Glassdoor, Facebook, Quora). Prior to Shaadi.com, Amit served as the Director of Human Resources at Vserv, where he built an HR department from the ground up and partnered with the founders and CXO to formalize and manage HR strategy. He was responsible for recruitment, performance management, learning and development, compensation and benefits, payroll, and internal and social media communication for better employer branding. He built a highly engaged and trusted HR team and proactively worked with business leaders to address employee issues. Amit has also worked as a Manager of HR at People Interactive, where he managed the Human Resources function and was responsible for tech hiring