About

Saurabh Pachauri is an Electrical Engineer turned Technology Talent Acquisition Specialist with around 6 years of experience in working with Internet E-commerce and Start-up organizations. He specializes in Recruitment, Employer Branding, and Social Media Hiring. Saurabh has a passion for looking for good pedigree talent who have a dove-tail fit for specific roles in the Engineering team. Over the course of the last 6 years, he has successfully added over 200 rockstar candidates to the teams of Jugnoo, Publicis Sapient & Gaana. Saurabh specializes in hiring for Engineering, Product, and Architecture Design roles. He is currently working as a Recruiter, Cloud - India at Google. In his previous roles, he has worked as a Senior Recruiter - Tech & Product at Gaana and as a Recruiter - Product Engineering at Publicis Sapient. At Gaana, he was responsible for driving Technology & Functional Hiring for varied roles across Gaana. He sourced, screened, and provided a shortlist of qualified candidates for various roles. He also built a strong tech talent pipeline and helped hire and retain skilled employees for Tech & Non-Tech positions. Similarly, at Publicis Sapient, Saurabh built an active and passive pipeline for skill-based pods for current and future needs. He drove and implemented hands-on sourcing/search strategies for critical and hard-to-find skills. He developed market intelligence for niche roles and drove the recruitment efforts right from getting the requirement from the Hiring Manager to offer negotiation. Saurabh has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Rajasthan Technical University. He is skilled in Software Engineering, Testing, DevOps, Search, Frontend, Senior Software Engineering, NodeJS, and Java. He is also adept in handling Applicant Tracking Systems like Taleo and Avature. Apart from his recruitment expertise, Saurabh is also skilled in Employer Branding, International Technology & Product Hiring, Recruitment re-engineering, Candidate Engagement, Tech hiring Meetups, Recruitment Certifications, Hackathons, Diversity hiring, and Technology Events.