Gia Sharda

Gia Sharda

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Global Head of Tech Recruiting
California, United States

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  • Beacon Software
    Global Head of Tech Recruiting
    Beacon Software
    Aug 2026 - Current (3 months)
    I’m thrilled to share that I’m joining Beacon Software—an AI innovation layer for real economies! 🚀

    Beacon acquires trusted, incumbent vertical software businesses and systematically expands what they deliver for their customers through a centralized AI operating platform.

    Joining at this inflection point to help build and scale across our specialized engineering pillars (Platform, Forward-Deployed, Post-Training, and Integration) is an incredible opportunity.

    Incredibly excited to be a part of the build, creation, and next chapter of compounding growth!
  • Navan
    Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition & AI-Forward Strategist
    Navan
    Mar 2025 - Aug 2026 (1 year 6 months)
    As Global VP of Talent Acquisition, I lead & architect the hiring strategy, operations, and AI-forward infrastructure fueling our hyper-growth, by embedding AI into our tech stack to accelerate talent velocity while maintaining high-touch candidate experience.

    FY26 Strategic Impact & Global Scale:
    - AI Investment: Spearheaded AI assessment and roll-outs, of cutting-edge AI tools (Braintrust, Metaview), in tight alignment with Recruiting Infrastructure to modernize sourcing and interview automation ecosystem
    - Operational Efficiency: Achieved -36% cost-per-hire efficiency against industry benchmarks
    - Recruiting Velocity: Delivered +45% improvement in Time-to-Hire (TTH) velocity, successfully driving 1,134 total hir
  • Navan
    Senior Director
    Navan
    Jul 2022 - Mar 2025 (2 years 9 months)
    Lead Global Engineering, Product, Design (PDE), Travel Experience (TE) & APAC Talent Acquisition teams. Partner closely with R&D, TE & APAC Global business & recruiting leaders to drive a global talent strategy that aligns with Navan’s business priorities across AMER, EMEA & APAC. Contribute to help scale and build efficiency through high performing collaborative teams.

    We are hiring across various roles- Engineering, Product, Design, GTM, & Travel Agents!!! If interested, please check out our open positions today at https://bit.ly/3O4Gaj7
    and reach out to me at
  • Slack
    Global Slack Account Manager & Senior Director of Recruiting (PDE&CE)
    Slack
    Oct 2021 - Jul 2022 (10 months)
    Operate in a dual capacity as the:
    - Slack Global Account Manager (AM) within the Emerging Business/Mergers & Acquisition function (EBM&A)- act as a single point of contact (POC) and connector between Slack Executives, Salesforce & Slack Recruiting leadership including cross-functional partners (e.g. Finance, ESBP RecOps, FutureForce, Marketing)
    - Head of a high performing Product, Design, Engineering and Customer Experience (PDE&CE) recruiting teams at Slack, a Salesforce company (acquired July 2021)!

    As the Global AM (EBM&A), primary touchpoint to the Chief of Staff to the Slack CEO, SVP of ESBPs, Salesforce/Slack/EBM&A Recruiting leadership. Built a centralized framework to organize, manage communication workflow
  • Slack
    Director
    Slack
    Feb 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 9 months)
    As of July 21st, 2021, Slack is now officially a part of Salesforce. This is an incredible achievement and a huge milestone!!! As called out by Stewart Butterfield (Slack's CEO), this will help shape the future of enterprise software and lead a historic shift to a digital-first world.

    If you are passionate in this space and would like to contribute in our core mission, please come join us!

    ●●WE ARE HIRING!!! If interested, please email me directly at: gsharda@slack-corp.com.●●

    A Global Software Company that designs and develops communication platform to provide real-time messaging, file sharing, archiving, and searching s
  • Google
    Engineering Staffing Manager, Lead and Recruiter, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Other Products
    Google
    Aug 2013 - Feb 2020 (6 years 7 months)
    Interested in working in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ? Look no further. We are hiring for Software Engineers with strong Infrastructure background.

    We are looking for Software Engineers, Technical Leads, Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Technical Program Managers to help grow GCP in either Sunnyvale (CA) or San Francisco (CA) locations.

    As a SWE, you must have technical chops to deliver GCP products, including Networking, Compute, GKE, Anthos, Cloud Databases, Storage, Data Analytics and more. Engineering Managers must have strong people management and technical large scale design skills to lead major projects.

    If interested, please email Gia at
  • Adecco
    Engineering Technical Recruiter (Contracted @ Google)
    Adecco
    Jul 2012 - Jul 2013 (1 year 1 month)
    We are also HIRING within Core Engineering Product Areas. Are you passionate about Software Engineering creating innovative products, and have a dream to work at Google, like I did?

    If so, then please contact me at gsharda@google.com or 650-504-1514 (c).

    We are seeking ROCKSTAR engineering profiles, with the following background:
    - Software Engineers with strong Java/C++/C, Python, Machine learning, or Linux with Computer Science or Computer Engineering background.
    - Front-end Software Engineers with Java/C++, Javascript, HTML and CSS.

    Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.
    ●●●I will welcome strong
  • Talent Builder Inc
    Lead Technical Recruiter
    Talent Builder Inc
    Mar 2009 - Jul 2012 (3 years 5 months)
  • Artizen Inc
    IT Resource Consultant
    Artizen Inc
    Sep 2002 - Jan 2009 (6 years 5 months)
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  • The George Washington University School of Business
    Master's degree, Information Systems Technology
    The George Washington University School of Business
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2002 (1 year 1 month)
  • Charleston Southern University
    Bachelors of Science, Computer Information Systems & Economics
    Charleston Southern University
    Jan 1995 - Jan 1998 (3 years 1 month)
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