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Janani Balachandran

Energizer · DISC type I
Senior Manager Talent Acquisition at Nutanix
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Janani Balachandran is a results-driven talent acquisition leader with over 17 years of experience hiring top tech talent for major companies like Nutanix, Uber, and Citrix. She specializes in data-driven recruitment strategies and holds a Master of Science from Bangalore University. Colleagues describe her as a passionate, motivated, and highly effective recruitment partner.

While at Uber, she led the successful effort to build a brand new 50+ person engineering team from the ground up in just one year.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Senior Manager Talent Acquisition
Job Level
Middle
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Janani shows up

Full Of Energy
Imaginative
Relationship Oriented

They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They are people oriented, friendly and like creating new connections. They excel at seeing the bigger picture, and the long-term impact of their decisions.

Priorities

Topics Janani cares about

Tech Talent Strategy
With 17+ years of experience, she focuses on end-to-end, data-driven recruitment to attract top engineering talent for leading software and internet companies.
Building Engineering Teams
Praised for building entire teams from scratch, such as leading the hiring for a new 50+ person engineering organization in Bangalore for Uber.
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Career

Work history

12-2024
Senior Manager Talent Acquisition
Nutanix
3-2024 - 11-2024
Director Talent Acquisition
Factspan
4-2022 - 3-2024
Talent Acquisition Manager
Cloud Software Group
7-2020 - 3-2022
Principal Recruiter
Cloud Software Group
10-2018 - 6-2020
Senior Technical Recruiter
Uber
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Education
2006 - 2008
M.Sc
Bangalore University
2003 - 2006
B.SC
Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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