Roopesh Nair President & CEO at Symphony Talent: AI, talent acquisition, working with Google.
Channel: Peter Clayton
Date: 2020-09-06

Interview recorded with Roopesh at the 16th College Recruiting Bootcamp at the Googleplex in 2018. Artificial intelligence is poised to fundamentally change how we work, are educated, and run our business. AI offers tremendous opportunities to those in talent acquisition and HR as well as society as a whole but also poses some threats.
Roopesh Nair is President and CEO of Symphony Talent, a global leader in transforming employer brand experiences through talent marketing software and services. Its talent marketing platform, SmashFlyX, unifies CRM, career site, talent mobility, and programmatic advertising to help talent acquisition teams automate tasks for efficiency and empower teams for interaction. Symphony Talent has won major awards in creative and employer brand services for EVP strategy, employer brand campaigns, career site design, and more. The company supports more than 600 customers across the globe, with headquarters in New York, Atlanta, London, Bangalore, and Belfast. Visit symphontalent.com to learn more, and follow us on Twitter @SymphonyTalent_ and @SymphonT_EU.

Roopesh's journey with Symphony Talent started in May 2015 when he was hired as the CEO to combine the power of five different entities Hodes, Findly, Skillcheck, HRLogix and QUESocial into a single global company, re-engineered into a single integrated data and experience driven technology and a self sustained ( but integrated ) group of Agency hubs across the world. In early 2019 Symphony Talent doubled in Revenue to be a ~ $50 M company. In November 2019 Symphony Talent acquired Smashfly and Roopesh took over as the combined CEO. The spirit of Symphony Talent ( #lifeatst ) is their core values; Focus on Talent, Be an Open Book, Celebrate Each Other, Dare to be Different and Share in Success ( https://www.symphonytalent.com/about/).