About

Sumit Chandra is a seasoned recruiting leader with over 17 years of experience in driving full life cycle tech R&D and non-tech recruiting. He specializes in driving leadership, senior, and niche hiring across engineering, product management, analytics, data science, design, and IT functions for high-growth industry segments like e-commerce, internet, web scale, mobile, desktop, wireless, ads, social media, travel, healthcare, food, supply chain, robotics, AI, IoT, enterprise, cloud, virtualization, desktop, online gaming, networking, and systems. Currently, he is the Director of Leadership Hiring (Tech & Non-Tech) & University Relations at Flipkart. Sumit has established an impeccable reputation for filling open niche requisitions with exceptional talent. He is specialized in developing and evaluating staffing metrics to measure the efficiency of recruiting efforts and implementing contemporary staffing initiatives to fill positions, delivering significant org-wide impact with a strategic approach. His core competencies are talent mapping & market intelligence, talent advisory and strategic business partnering, driving innovative sourcing channels, developing candidate engagement frameworks & smooth onboarding, talent & employer branding. Sumit's specialties include strategic & niche sourcing, driving effective TA strategies, talent research and market intelligence, developing high-performance & "A" recruitment teams, cost-effective recruitment models/direct sourcing, metrics-driven TA delivery, talent advisory and strategic business partnering, hands-on approach & guidance for TA professionals, and TA processes, systems, and tools. Before joining Flipkart, Sumit worked on different startups named Hiring Ideas and MakeMyJob.com. At Hiring Ideas, he spread the company in the US and worked for several product start-ups, mid-sized & large MNC's in the Bay Area. He has also worked with various innovative and cutting-edge tech start-ups in the Bay Area and helped them identify top talent for some of the toughest skills. At MakeMyJob.com, he orchestrated the Executive Search practice, working with a couple of product start-ups, VC-backed firms, R&D labs of various MNC's on their executive search assignments. Sumit has an MBA degree in Marketing & Finance from Apeejay College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Lucknow. His tech stack includes product manager, data scientist, mobile, web, research scientist, search, AI, ML, MapReduce, NoSQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, infra, Apache Hive. Sumit has 19.45 years of relevant experience.