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Smithaa Gudagie

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Manager - Talent Acquisition at Unacademy
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Smithaa is a collaborative talent acquisition leader with over 10 years of experience building and scaling technology teams from scratch. She specializes in partnering with leadership to staff engineering, design, and product functions, translating recruitment insights into actionable strategy.

Colleagues and partners describe her as a structured, proactive, and empathetic professional. She is known for being a candid and sincere partner to hiring managers, ensuring alignment and clear expectations throughout the hiring process.

Unique fact: She was instrumental in building teams from the ground up for three separate product lines within Unacademy.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Manager - Talent Acquisition
Job Level
Middle
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Scaling Tech Teams
She has direct experience building engineering, design, and product functions from zero by partnering with founders and leadership at Unacademy.
Strategic Recruiting
Focuses on translating recruitment initiatives and metric insights into actionable strategies to meet the organization's overall talent agenda.
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Career

Work history

8-2020
Manager - Talent Acquisition
Unacademy
3-2018 - 7-2020
Talent Acquisition Leader
GO-JEK Tech
12-2013 - 2-2018
Talent Acqusition Leader
Collective
8-2011 - 6-2013
Staffing/Human Resource @ Microsoft India Development Centre(IDC)
Microsoft
1-2010 - 8-2011
Lead Executive- Recruitment
iGATE Global Solutions
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