About

Anupama Ram is a Human Engineer and Talent Acquisition Leader at American Express with over 9 years of extensive experience in hiring for a broad range of skills. She has been successful in filling positions at Engineer up through Director roles, possessing strong technical and business acumen, deep sourcing skills, and establishing relationships with stakeholders and candidates. Anupama is passionate about scouting talent and bringing them into Amex, with unconventional sourcing skills through LinkedIn, job portals, ATS, Salesforce Trailblazer, Github, among others. An expert in engineering hiring, Anupama has extensive levels of hiring experience in Product Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Salesforce Engineering, and Cloud Engineering. Her current role at Amex involves leading the end-to-end recruitment cycle for BU's, including Global Infrastructure, Salesforce platforms, cloud Engineering, and Product Engineering teams. She is also responsible for D&I Hiring, Tech Leadership Hiring, Talent Mapping, Global Stakeholder Management, Internal Projects, and Global Projects. Anupama's achievements include maintaining an offer-to-joiner ratio above 93% with 50%+ diversity joiners across all levels for the past 3 years. She has been instrumental in closing a high number of roles through the last 3 years, with over 120+ roles with end-to-end recruitment and no vendor usage. Prior to her current role at Amex, Anupama worked as an Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition at Happiest Minds, where she implemented sourcing strategies, talent mapping, passive hiring, D&I hiring, and played a key role in launching a new ATS tool. She also worked as a Senior HR Recruiter at Zyme, where she performed extensively in job analysis, volume tech hiring, conducting weekday and weekend drives, vendor management, and team management. Anupama holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Mtres School and has relevant experience in infra, Salesforce, Senior Software Engineer, Research Scientist, and Mobile.