About

Naveen K is a highly motivated and results-driven Talent Acquisition Lead with over 8 years of experience in elevating and growing the corporate workforce. He has collaborated and led efficient and effective full life cycle recruitment processes across various industries and domains such as Data & Analytics, Internet, Telecommunication, Information Technology, Engineering, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Business Consulting, Staffing & Recruitment. Naveen has extensive management and recruiting experience in stakeholder management, sourcing and recruitment management, candidate management, talent pipeline building, talent mapping, delivery management, people management, vendor management, workforce planning & forecasting, Agile methodology, diversity hiring, bulk hiring, niche hiring, leadership hiring, offer management, background check & reference check, internal transfers, recruitment process improvement, recruitment reports & presentation, communication, employee referral campaign, onboarding & induction, hiring events, campus recruitment, bench management, employee experiences, and engagement. Currently, Naveen is working as Talent Acquisition Lead for Google Cloud, where he is responsible for India Recruitment Delivery Lead for Senior Lateral (L4-L6) hiring for Test Engineering (Software Testing & Network Testing) and providing sourcing support for Engineering Manager role - Cloud. He has also hired for other roles like SWE’s, Silicon Teams, Data Center, Strategic Negotiator, Network Engineer & Deployment, Messaging Engineer, Network Operation & Technical Support. In his past roles, Naveen has worked as Lead Talent Acquisition (Data & Analytics) at Sigmoid and Talent Acquisition Specialist (Data, Analytics & Engineering) at Thales. At Sigmoid, he led the recruitment for the Data Scientist Team across all levels and worked closely with the Chief Data Scientist & Head Talent Acquisition. At Thales, he led the India recruitment for the Guavus Entity and worked on the Big Data Analytics team (Data Engineering, Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Data Analytics) and built the Engineering Competency Center - Software & Test Bench team from Scratch at Bangalore. He also recruited for support roles such as Supply Chain Management, Business Sales, HR’s, and led the Recruitment Special Projects & SME in Workday ATS Tool. Naveen holds a Master of Business Administration - MBA degree in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General from NIT Surathkal, a Bachelor of Engineering - BE degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, a Master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from IGNOU, and CBSE Secondary School Education from