About

Owais Noman is a highly accomplished Global Talent Acquisition professional with over 12 years of experience in the industry. He has designed and executed compelling Talent Acquisition Strategies to attract top tech talent for leading companies like Google, Adobe, and currently, Microsoft. Owais has a special focus on niche and difficult-to-fill technical skillsets and has effectively managed multiple projects while working productively with a variety of people. At Microsoft, Owais is the Senior Recruiter - Global Talent Acquisition and is accountable for all IC leadership technology and services recruitment. He is responsible for the development and successful execution of sourcing strategies, ongoing identification and engagement of talent pools, exploring and embedding non-traditional hiring programs to help expand the company's addressable talent pools. Owais co-owns business relationships with global recruiting leaders to empower capacity planning, development, and execution of sourcing strategies and delivery across all hiring requirements. He researches, builds, and reports on competitive and market-driven insights to help Microsoft's hiring community better understand their unique talent markets. Previously, Owais worked as a Senior Technical Recruiter (Senior SWE Staffing) at Google, where he was responsible for finding unique candidates who bring an entrepreneurial spirit, a sense of resourcefulness, and a diversity of thought to all that they do. He established himself as an extension of the team he hired for and leveraged effective stakeholder management skills, consulting with leaders to provide the best possible technical recruitment service, establishing the latest sourcing techniques, candidate management best practice, and process improvements. Owais has also worked as a Lead - India TA Ops at Adobe, where he forged dynamic relationships with business leaders, hiring managers, and HR business partners to create best-in-class operational metrics, formulate process improvement strategies, and manage data effectively for the talent acquisition team. Owais holds a BBM degree in Human Resource from Bangalore University and has completed his 10+2 in Commerce from Karnataka Pre-University Board, Bangalore. He has also completed his ICSE from Bethany High School, Bangalore. Owais has expertise in Software Engineering, Designing, and Research Science.