About

Sanjay VK is a seasoned HR professional with over 9 years of experience in the field of Human Resource in multiple industries. He specializes in Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition, Employee Management, and Operations. Sanjay is currently working as a Lead Talent Partner at PayPal, where he is responsible for the talent acquisition function for global business verticals such as Tech, Product, and Corporate. He also handles business partnering and advisory charters. Sanjay has successfully owned and delivered TA programs for PayPal's growth charter spanning across Lending, Infra (Engineering, Distributed Systems, Data and Machine Learning), Enterprise Cyber Security, and Crypto offerings. He has also worked with business leaders for hiring strategies and competencies and collaborated with global teams on recruitment automation. Prior to PayPal, Sanjay worked at Volvo Group as a Deputy Manager, where he was responsible for hiring across verticals. He partnered with business leaders for hiring strategies and competencies and collaborated with the global team on recruitment automation. Sanjay has also conceptualized and drove the Return to Career program for “Women with Career Break” and reduced vendor usage to 12% from 26%. He increased diversity to 17% and hired key talents in the space of Technology & Engineering Chief engineers, VP- Data Science, Cloud Architect (GCP, AWS & Azure mostly) at Volvo Group. Sanjay has also worked at Anheuser-Busch InBev as a Recruitment Specialist, where he supported extensive hiring for IT & Analytics. He managed the RPO team with a size of 2 and hired roles/skills in Analytics such as Data scientists, Data engineers, Data Architect, etc. He evaluated various tools to automate the recruitment processes and independently managed stakeholders, including senior directors, to achieve planned targets. Sanjay holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General from Visvesvaraya Technological University and a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from Kannur University. He has a strong tech stack, including Senior Software Engineer, AWS, ML, infra, Data Scientist, Azure, and GCP. Sanjay's profound insight to determine priorities, schedule work & meet critical deadlines within budgetary guidelines makes him an asset to any organization.