Feb 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Fleek is a B2B marketplace for wholesale second-hand fashion, connecting professional resellers and retail stores with vintage clothing suppliers worldwide. Backed by top Silicon Valley VCs like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator and HV Capital, we’re a team of 65+ spanning Asia, Europe, and the UK. Our diverse team is breaking records and bridging boundaries in the cross-border second-hand fashion market.
• Partnering with Co-Founders, and global business leaders to solve 0-to-1 challenges across hiring, people operations, and culture. Led the end-to-end setup of Fleek’s Engineering office in Koramangala Bengaluru, managing site selection, design, relocation, and operational readiness.
• Recruiting:
• Owning complete recruiting efforts in India, successfully attracting and hiring top-tier talent.
• Conducted a comprehensive compensation benchmarking exercise for the India Engineering team, aligning pay structures with market standards to attract and retain top-tier talent while ensuring fairness and internal equity.
• Contributed to global hiring efforts in the UK and other APAC offices
• People Operations:
• Partnered with Co-Founders to enhance visibility into India team performance, employee attendance, and work culture.
• Contributed to a global employee engagement survey, identifying actionable insights and driving projects to enhance employee happiness and productivity.
• Designed and implemented scalable policies for employee engagement, leave, time off, and benefits to align with global offices while addressing regional nuances.
• Introduced Employee Benefits such as Work Setup Allowance, Health Insurance, and Flexi Tax Saving Options. Led key discussions and cost negotiations with Vendors for onboarding.

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024 · 10 mos

• Partnering with Engineering Leaders (CTO, SVP & Director of Engineering) for ShareChat & Moj on solving hiring challenges while handling rapid growth.
• Member of the core Talent Acquisition team, playing a key role in recruitment strategy, planning, compensation, and hiring costs.
• Heading verticals - Engineering + Previously: Design
• Successfully onboarded over 150 Engineers, including more than 10 Engineering and Design Leaders, in last 2 years.
• Reduced the hiring cost, and escalated the direct hiring rate to 100% in less than a year, maintaining an average offer-to-joining rate of 75%.
• Worked on to reducing and maintaining a Time-To-Offer of 30 days and a Time-To-Join of 60 days across the Engineering roles.
• Design and execute a comprehensive recruitment strategy that aligns with the growth goals and attracts top talent
• Managed and built a team of 5 members, including Interns, Associate T.A and Sr. Talent Acquisition professionals

Aug 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Partnered with business leaders for strategizing the hiring needs for new business categories such as Camera Tech (SDK), Fantasy Gaming, and Graphics Engineering Teams at ShareChat / Moj
• The primary focus was to rapidly grow the Mobile (Android / iOS) and Web teams.
• Led the design hiring for 6 months and onboarded candidates across design functions including UXD-3 Designers, Content Writers, Motion Graphic Designers, 3d Designers, Illustrator and Copywriters.

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · India

Apr 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Highlights:
• Recognized as an Engineering Hiring expert within the BookMyShow Talent Acquisition team

Jun 2019 – Apr 2020 · 10 mos

Apr 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Sep 2016 – Mar 2017 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

•  Managing recruitment for all level of IT and Non IT.
•  Drafting job description, screening CV’s and maintaining records of applicants.
•  Final HR interview, salary and notice period negotiation with candidates
•  Handling vendors, off campus & campus recruitment, portals etc.
•  Making Strategies for sourcing database, job post and recruitment.
•  Managing and supporting team members in HR process.
•  Responsible for joining and orientation formalities of new employees.
•  Managing database of applicants and vendors.
•  Managing multiple MIS for reporting.
• Position Hired are DevOps Engineer (AWS), PHP and Magento Developer, Front End Developer, ElasticSearch Engineer, Android Developer, Python Developer, Creative Lead, Software Test Engineer, Adwords Specialist, SEO Analyst, Social Media Manager, Quality Analyst, Buyer, Area Sales Manager, Seller Onboarding Executive and Accounts Executive.

Sep 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

• Recruitment and Operations:
•  Managed employee Life-cycle for 200+ employees for Mumbai and Delhi Location: - On-Boarding to exit formalities.
•  Manpower planning and recruitment strategy for various positions at all levels.
•  Managed recruitment and selection process and requirement distribution in team.
•  Salary structure –administration, fixation & negotiation, issuing offer and appointment letter to selected candidates.
•  Responsible for complete joining and orientation formalities of new employees.
•  Managed database and personnel file of applicants and employees.
•  Managed multiple MIS to track documentation, appointment letter release, confirmations, experience and F&F of employees on monthly basis.
•  Identification of training needs and arranging the same for the new joiners and existing employee.
•  Assisting in framing, analyzing and revising the existing HR policies
•  Managed end to end employee insurance policy & claims.
•  Managed biometric, weekly and monthly attendance report, removing old employee data, name input and resolving the issues in case of errors.
• Position Hired are Python Developer, Node.js Developer, PHP Developer, .Net Developer, Linux Administrator, Android Developer, IOS Developer, UI Developer, Campaign Executive, Business Development Manager and Recruitment Executive.
• Performance Appraisal:
•  Managed performance appraisal assessment and evaluation process
•  Created increment letters and revised salary structures
• Payroll & HRIS:
•  Managed pay roll compensation, attendance & maintained the leave record of the employee which includes investment declarations, new joiner details, Tax deductions, full and final settlements, reimbursement pay etc.
•  Managed HR & payroll software (Greythr)
• Employee engagement activities:
•  Successfully managed various employee engagement activities (Dubsmash contest, Cricket tournament, selfie contest Womens Day team outing etc.)

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr · Mumbai

• Talent Acquisition and HR Operation:
•  Managed end to end recruitment of all level.
•  Strategized recruitment process for new requisitions (Job Advertising, Sourcing channel, Database)
•  Handled HR operations (Offer letter, Welcome notes, Birthday wishes, Introduction, Employee issue’s)
•  Managed documents and database of employees and applicants.
•  Managed employee records (online and physical files).
•  Handled petty cash and payments to vendors.
•  Handled activ8 (In-house PMS) for recording employee’s activity.
• Position Hired are Creative Director, Associate Creative Director, Art Director, Client Servicing, Content Writer, Copy Writer, Web Graphic Designer, Media Buyer, MIS Executive, PHP Developer, Wordpress Developer, IOS Developer, .Net Developer, Tech Lead, System Admin, QC Engineer, SEM Manager, SEO Manager and Social Media Manager.