About

Souren Pradhan is a Talent Acquisition Specialist at ServiceNow with a passion for leadership hiring, Agile PeopleOps, startups, and DEI. With 4 years of experience in working with enterprise SAAS, product-based startups/scaleups, and the world's biggest system integrators, Souren is a transformational talent advocate who shapes and fosters an energetic work culture and builds high-performance teams. Souren is a hands-on people enabler who loves meeting people from different cultures and backgrounds. He can have conversations ranging from technologies, TA, sourcing, career progression, OSINT, DE&I to geopolitics, politics, sports, movies, art, and culture, fashion. Souren's experience includes partnering with stakeholders of multiple practices/BU’s to ascertain talent needs, sourcing strategy, future projections, and an adequate EVP to float. He has successfully managed the hiring of 2 global scale business units, namely Product Engineering and US Staffing, and is currently managing a team of 4 recruiters. Souren strives for process excellence by simplifying, standardizing, and centralizing the recruitment processes in an agile way with an unparalleled focus on candidate experience. He played an instrumental role in setting up a Talent COE owning up the sourcing part of it and built the US staffing and User Experience (UX) practice from scratch. Souren has also planned L&D strategies for the TA team and delivered sessions on X-Ray sourcing, Programmable search engines (CSE’s), A-Z GitHub sourcing. He defined, designed, and implemented unique programs like Erudites – L&D, Meet and Greet, Coffee with Team, POFU (Post Offer Follow Up) plan, Introspect. Before joining ServiceNow, Souren worked as a Team Manager (Fundraising and Talent Acquisition) at Motive8, a not-for-profit entity actively working in the space of sexual and reproductive health, early childcare, elementary education, sustainable agriculture, etc. arenas. He was responsible for developing strategic fundraising plans, identifying and researching appropriate, promising funding opportunities, and implementing fundraising strategies and grant research. Souren is a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from Odisha University of Technology and Research and completed his 12th from DAV Public School MCL Kalinga Area, Talcher. He is skilled in search and research scientist. Souren's relevant experience in the field is 4.61 years.