About

Vinayak Kallimani is a talented Talent Acquisition professional with over 13 years of experience in building high-performing teams from scratch. He is currently serving as a Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition at betterplace safety solutions. Vinayak has a proven track record of driving recruitment strategies, comprehensive search strategies, candidate experience, and leadership hiring. He has recruited for various domains such as Tech, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Sales requirements. Prior to his current role, Vinayak has worked as a Talent Acquisition Manager at betterplace and as a Senior Manager of HRBP and Talent Acquisition at CoWrks. At CoWrks, he led team structure and job design efforts for all new roles and team structures. He also designed and implemented new talent acquisition processes and interview strategies that promoted overall company vision and values. Vinayak introduced innovative quarterly performance evaluations and successfully moved the company culture towards a result-oriented approach. He also monitored turnover of critical roles in each department and proposed solutions to the senior leadership team. Vinayak has also managed a team of four recruiters on all aspects of the recruiting lifecycle requisition development, hiring manager relationship, candidate management, and offer negotiation. He has worked for hiring Architects, Principal Engineers (Java/C++, Data structures & algorithms, Distributed Systems, microservices), and Directors, Engineering Managers. Vinayak has created a "Candidate First Approach" right from storytelling to onboarding. Vinayak holds an Executive Program in Business Administration and Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM) and an MBA in Management & HR from SDM College of Business Management Post Graduate Centre for Management Studies and Research. He possesses technical skills in Search, Java, and Microservices. With relevant experience of 10.78 years, Vinayak is a recruitment partner who can help organizations build a strong and diverse team.