Nitin Cunha
Canadian Director of Talent Acquisition @Improving
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WORK HISTORY
Canadian Director of Talent Acquisition @Improving
Vancouver, BC, CA
Blended IC and lead role for national talent acquisition supporting five Canadian enterprises with distinct business models, multiple hiring managers, and onboarding processes.Strong in finding hardcore niche software engineers that lead with expertise in OOP, Algos and Big(O) across all languages and platforms including OSS, as well as traditional programming language frameworks and enterprise solutions95%+ offer acceptance, with main avenues of candidates coming from sourcing, referrals and strategic talent pool nurturingScaled engineering leadership by 50% and software engineering teams by 60% through strategic sourcing, referrals, and workforce planning.Led a 5-person national recruiting team and implemented data-driven performance tracking and learning sessions.Elevated referrals to become the #1 source of hires (40%), reducing agency usage and time-to-fill.Designed and led adoption of AI tools in recruiting for market intelligence, salary benchmarking, interview summarization, and workflow automation.Lifelong innovator - Currently pushing hard into vanilla GenAI and Agentic across all TA including in/direct market research, sourcing, interviewing, interviewer development, nurturing pools, assessments, upskillingCreated an Interviewer Growth Program and a Bench Talent Management system to improve resource allocation and interviewer competency.Kicked off a TA Innovation Lab to experiment and share ideas and hold each other accountable to continual growthTools: Agentic AI and vanilla prompting, CoPilot, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Github, LinkedIn Recruiter (Projects, Jobs, Talent Insights), Lever ATS, Dynamics, GSuite, Rope.AI
EDUCATION
Simon Fraser University
Certificate in Business Analysis, Business Analysis
Kevin Wheeler - 21st century recruiting
Certificate
Simon Fraser University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cognitive Science
Peter Leffkowitz - Recruiter Training
Certificate
SKILLS
ABOUT NITIN CUNHA
I help organizations grow by connecting purpose-driven people with meaningful work—blending data, technology, and human insight to create hiring experiences that strengthen culture and performance. I’m the Canadian Director of Talent Acquisition with 15+ years of experience helping organizations scale intelligently across North America, LATAM, and India. My passion lies in building high-performing teams, empowering recruiters, and integrating AI and analytics to make hiring faster, fairer, and more human.At Improving, I lead national recruiting strategy across five diverse enterprises - each with its own culture, processes, and markets - while working with a distributed team of recruiters and driving innovation in every part of the talent lifecycle. I’ve grown engineering leadership by 50%, increased referral hires to 40% of all successful hires, and reduced agency dependency through internal capability building and culture-driven referral programs.Beyond filling roles, I’m focused on creating sustainable hiring ecosystems—from interviewer development and talent pool nurturing to DEI-aligned messaging and AI-assisted decision-making. I believe modern recruiting leaders are both data-driven and story-driven: we translate analytics into human outcomes.Core Strengths:Talent Strategy | Global Recruiting | AI & Automation in Hiring | Workforce Planning | Employer Branding | Leadership Development | Diversity & Inclusion | Recruiting Operations | Talent Analytics
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