Anita Chandrasekhar

Anita Chandrasekhar serves as Senior Manager of Talent Strategy and Operations at Zapier, where she has worked for four and a half years. In this role she oversees talent strategy and AI operations for the recruitment team and broader people team, manages a team of three, handles tech stack management, recruitment data analytics, team enablement and training, AI enablement, and project management for the org-wide promotions process while also acting as chief of staff to the head of global talent. She brings nearly 10 years of prior experience at Teach for America, where she focused on recruitment for the last six years along with project management, people and performance work, and data analytics. Earlier she worked in consulting and then banking at Goldman Sachs after completing her undergraduate studies. Anita attributes much of her career progression to being in the right place at the right time and to a manager at Teach for America who recognized her potential. She holds a double major in economics and International Studies with double minors in humanities and business from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master's in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore, which she completed in 2012 after growing up in India and completing her schooling in Bangalore.