Apr 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• R&D Hiring - Responsible for Global Talent Acquisition, HR operations, and HR Business Partner for the Sony Research India office. Received Director Award for contributions in Human Resources.
• Inclusion and Diversity - Conceptualized, designed and evangelized the Inclusion and Diversity program at Sony India Software Centre from scratch.
• Employee Experience - Envisioned the strategy and implementation of the employee experience framework along with senior leadership.
• Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems - Lead implementation of Applicant tracking system Zwayam (ATS) for four-digit strong workforce.

Dec 2016 – Apr 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Data-driven recruitment and selection strategies for Information Security Division in specific.
• Scaling up the Infosec division to 200+ team members, ensuring a healthy mix of contingent and permanent staff.
• Talent Intelligence and research to hire a future-ready workforce.
• Vendor Management - Supervising and collaborating with 25+ companies working in staff augmentation mode to fulfil internal talent needs.
• Basis excellence in individual performance trend I have been assigned additional responsibilities which included building People and Culture from scratch at Sony Research India(new entity for R&D in June 2020). 200% KPI's achieved through setting up from scratch niche research teams comprising of data science, computer vision, and business strategy and other non tech areas. My responsibilities also included HR Business Partnering, employer branding & Talent Management.
• In addition to the above, also extended support in setting up and scaling teams in Emerging technologies( AI/ML/Computer Vision/Audio/Graphics/Reverse Engineering/Cloud/Product Security) for the Software Architecture Division (SARD) at Sony India Software Centre.
• part of the Campus Hiring team.
• HR generalist activities: facilitating background verification, new joiner document collection.

Nov 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• 5x Revenue, Hired and set up teams from scratch for the Information Security division.
• ~5 at the time of joining to 70+ professionals in six months time, ensuring a healthy mix of contingent and permanent staff.
• Contributed to designing department structure, benchmarking designation, and compensations.
• Vendor management, the likes of top service provider organizations promoting and facilitating smooth staff augmentation.
• Built real and bankable talent pipelines to meet immediate future hiring needs.
• Implemented direct sourcing to eliminate dependency on staffing agencies resulting in cost efficiency.
• Talent Intelligence and mapping ( I have successively moved high-performing teams and made them join us!)
• As an acting HR Business Partner, worked directly with senior leadership teams across APAC, US, and Europe to develop and direct a recruiting agenda that closely supports organizational goals.

Aug 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Recruiting for Engineering and R&D Services division of HCL Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai offshore development centers(ODC).
• Recognized as the best sourcing professional in the history of hiring for the CISCO-HCL project.
• Wrote blogs about hiring.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · BTM LAYOUT

• Understanding the recruiting funnel/yield.
• Helped top-notch product organizations in finding the right people.
• Responsibilities included sourcing to following up post-offer till smooth onboarding.
• Built expertise of setting up the HR metrics in recruitment.