About

Vipin V is a highly skilled and experienced Principal Talent Acquisition Partner at Uber, where he specializes in global recruitment strategies and leadership hiring. With over 13 years of experience in the field, Vipin has built a reputation for delivering high-quality talent acquisition and cultivating winning teams that drive business and bottom-line results. Vipin's approach to recruitment is candidate-centric, ensuring that every opportunity is a great match for the job-seeker and not just a job spec to be filled. He firmly believes that through partnership, transparency, and a high level of trust, his candidates and organization can achieve that elusive perfect fit we all look for. At Uber, Vipin has played a pivotal role in building the Uber Eats India engineering team from 0 to 60 over two years, ranging from engineers to org leadership. He has also focused on leadership hiring across Uber for all financial products, hiring 14+ engineering leaders/Sr. Managers, including the first women engineering leaders for Hyderabad. Vipin has met more than 70% of the recruitment projects at the APAC level, with a focus on D&I, candidate and stakeholder experience, interviewer calibration, and Code on the Road (Initial Phase). He has launched lead generation drives/referral mining, contributing 2x the hiring, and managed over 10+ recruitment agencies that help maintain a pipeline for 30+ open positions. Prior to his current role, Vipin was a Technical Recruiter at Uber, where he recruited for niche technical roles across verticals. He worked strategically on a variety of high-impact requisitions, partnered with key stakeholders and leadership in a consultative recruitment approach, sourced and managed candidate pipelines for an average of 20 roles at a time in the Finance Engineering space, created new processes that decreased time to hire while increasing a robust and diverse pipeline, and efficiently and thoroughly reviewed 400-800 applications from online applicants weekly. Vipin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Madras and has completed a Human Resource Management course from Ajax Management and a Six Sigma Green Belt course from Simplilearn. He is a highly motivated and driven individual with a strong passion for recruitment and a desire to positively impact millions of people through his work.