About

Rohit Kumar is an experienced HR Business Partner at Amazon with over 11 years of experience in the IT industry. He is skilled in management, recruiting, human resources, and data management. Rohit has a Post Graduation Diploma in Human Resources Management from St. Francis College - Centre for Professional Studies, and a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from Loyola Academy Degree College. Rohit's current role at Amazon is as a Human Resources Business Partner, where he is responsible for the attraction, engagement, and hiring of computer scientists (applied, research, and data) from universities for all machine learning teams in India. He is also responsible for maintaining a network of potential professors, PhD candidates, and passive candidates via university connects, conferences, and symposiums to fill machine learning roles. In addition, he has created a program to infuse chartered accountant talent into India Finance Retail and Fulfillment Centre Finance Operations orgs, and designed a strategy to build the brand and hire chemical engineering talent for all product compliance teams in India. Rohit has also been in charge of hiring operations managers for 65 fulfillment centers in India. Previously, Rohit was a Specialty Recruiter - Niche Hiring, APAC at Amazon, where he was responsible for building a strategy to hire interns for the first time in APAC and ASEAN AWS Business Development teams. He was also responsible for engagement activities with interns, brand building, and engaging with colleges to have a YoY pipe of business development, sales, and marketing talent. Rohit launched university hiring at Amman, Jordan, attracting software engineers from universities in Jordan to infuse engineering talent into offices of Amazon. He was responsible for building market intelligence and creating a strategy to hire engineering talent as per the law of the land. Before joining Amazon, Rohit was a Campus Recruiter - India Engineering at Amazon, where he successfully led full-cycle campus recruitment for sixteen tech campuses across all states of North India. He was responsible for slot negotiations and ensuring that Amazon participated as a DAY 1 company on all sixteen core tech campuses. Rohit also contributed 50% of the total full-time employees hired by Amazon India across all tech campuses and 40% of the total interns hired by Amazon India across all tech campuses. He was also responsible for anchoring pre-placement talks and educating campuses about brand Amazon. Rohit has a strong tech stack that includes ML, AWS, research scientist, and senior software engineer. He is a strong HR