Business Leader. Builder. Talent Strategist.

Rishi Banerjee

I lead R&D hiring at Atlan — Engineering, Product, Design, IT, Security. But I don't just run recruiting. I build the systems underneath it: interview evaluators, prompt governance frameworks, candidate research agents, offer page generators, an npm package, a macOS menubar app, and a book on hiring in the age of AI.

Most talent leaders optimize funnels. I build the infrastructure underneath them. When a judgment call happens 200 times with no system backing it up, I turn it into software.

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20+ Years in TA

12+ Tools Shipped

10+ Countries Hired In

1 Published Book

Career Highlights

About

The short version

20 years of building and scaling talent functions across APAC, North America, and Europe. Currently leading R&D hiring at Atlan across five functions — Engineering, Product, Design, IT, and Security.

The building started because I kept watching the same problems repeat: inconsistent interview feedback, offer pages that looked like they were made in 2011, candidate research that took hours and lived in someone's head. So I started writing code. Not scripts — real products, with UIs, APIs, and users.

Now it's the thing I'm most known for internally. The team runs on systems I built. Externally, some of those tools are open source — an npm package with 700+ installs, a macOS app, a GitHub Action used in CI pipelines, and a prompt governance framework that other teams have adopted.

Experience

Career

Aug 2022 - Present

R&D Talent Strategy & Talent Acquisition

Atlan - The Missing Context Layer for Data & AI

Lead R&D hiring across Engineering, Product, Design, IT, and Security. Own the team, the process, and the tooling.
Advise founders and leadership on org design, capability gaps, role scoping, and sequencing hires against product bets.
Designed the talent operating model from scratch: structured intake, calibrated scorecards, governance frameworks, hiring investment planning.
Built 8+ internal AI tools the team uses daily — interview evaluators, candidate research agents, offer page systems, JD generators.
Cut time-to-hire by 40% while holding the quality bar and candidate experience scores.

Mar 2018 - Jul 2022

Vice President

ZTek Consulting - Global Talent & RPO Services

Scaled recruiting orgs and leadership hiring for Fortune 500 clients.
Managed multimillion-dollar TA budgets. Cost-per-hire dropped 30% across key accounts.
Built distributed teams and delivery governance. 95%+ SLA compliance.

Jul 2016 - Apr 2018

Manager, Talent Acquisition

InfoCepts - Data & Analytics Services

Multi-country talent strategy across India, the US, and Singapore.
Implemented Oracle Taleo workflows and reporting governance.
Built executive hiring and early-talent programs tied to curriculum partnerships.

Jul 2015 - Jul 2016

Talent Acquisition Leadership

GreyOrange - Robotics & automation

Scaled hiring during high-growth robotics expansion.
Built structured interview loops for technical and leadership roles.

Apr 2006 - Jun 2015

Earlier Career

UST and earlier roles - Recruiting, consulting, and people operations

Recruiting delivery, stakeholder management, and talent operations across multiple orgs.
Built the pattern-recognition that later shaped the systems and tooling work.

Expertise

How I operate

Hiring as a System, Not a Hustle

Most recruiting teams run on muscle memory and tribal knowledge. I design the operating system underneath: structured scorecards, calibrated evaluation loops, intake rigor, governance. The goal is that a great hiring decision doesn't depend on which interviewer had coffee that morning.

Founder-Level Talent Advisory

I sit in the room where org design happens — not waiting for a req to land. Capability gaps, hiring sequencing, leadership profiles, comp philosophy. The question isn't 'who do we hire?' — it's 'what bet are we making, and who makes it succeed?'

If It Repeats, I Automate It

Interview evaluators, offer page generators, candidate research agents, prompt governance, API usage dashboards — I build these because I got tired of watching my team do the same judgment call 200 times with no system backing them up. Most of these are internal. Some escaped into open source.

Book

Raising the Bar

Building High-Density Teams in the Age of AI

AI changes what one person can deliver — which means hiring doctrine needs to change too. This book is the framework I wish existed when I started building teams: how to hire for density over headcount, design evaluations that actually predict performance, and scale judgment without losing it.

Read on Amazon

Testimonials

What colleagues say

"One of the rare TA leaders who doesn't just recruit for the business, he influences how leadership thinks about talent as a competitive lever."

Head of Global TA Enterprise SaaS

"Instrumental in the best executive-level hires that helped us scale rapidly."

Senior Technology Leader Data & Analytics

"Talking to him feels less like talking to a recruiter and more like talking to an experienced colleague who has done the homework."

Risk Management Executive Fortune 500

Education & Certifications

Credentials

Post Graduate Programme in Strategic Human Resource Management

IIM Nagpur

Executive education in workforce planning, talent analytics, organizational design, and HR as a business function.

Professional Certifications

Industry credentials

Flagship Projects

Products I've built

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Prompt Control Plane

Deterministic prompt governance for production LLM systems — score, route, enforce, and audit.

Claude Usage Widget

Native macOS menubar widget that tracks Claude usage limits in real time. Single-file Swift app, no dependencies, Homebrew install.

Sourcing Compass

An AI talent mapper that turns a job title into a full sourcing landscape in under 10 seconds.

BlindBench

Blind-test 100+ LLMs side by side. Real prompts, no marketing — just truth scores and failure analysis.

Atlan Offer Wizard

Personalized offer pages generated from ATS data. Turns a transactional moment into a candidate experience artifact.

RishiOS MCP

Talent operating system that encodes hiring doctrine into software — scoring, JD generation, calibration, and drift detection.

Get In Touch

Let’s talk

Whether it’s hiring systems, AI tooling for talent teams, org design, or just comparing notes on scaling recruiting without losing your mind — I’m easy to reach.

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