Oct 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr · Remote

• Boutique recruitment firm supporting startups in mid to senior hiring.
• HR Consulting for early stage startups.
• Our speciality:
• Tech, Product, Design and leadership non-tech hiring.

Jan 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• FloBiz is a fintech startup backed by Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capitals, Greenoaks, Beenext, Think Investments. Our flagship product myBillBook is India's leading billing and accounting software for SMEs.
• My responsibilities:
• HR Leadership and Strategy:
• Built and led a highly efficient HR function. Collaborated with founders and leadership to define organizational values and principles, embedding them in daily operations. Developed and executed HR strategies to support business growth.
• Recruitment:
• Optimized recruitment processes, reducing hiring costs by 90% and enhancing efficiency with an ATS. Successfully scaled the organization from 200 to 900 employees(At peak). Hired most leaders by self-sourcing. Revamped the career page for improved employer branding.
• HR Operations and Benefits:
• Enhanced preboarding and onboarding programs(Rating 4.8/5). Introduced tax-efficient components in CTC. Ensured scalability and legal compliance in HR. Did a major exercise of correcting older data and documents. Transitioned 500 off-roll employees to on-roll. Brought better employee benefit plans. Handled audit successfully.
• HRBP:
• Revamped and automated performance management process. Introduced OKRs. Conducted bi-annual eNPS surveys and took initiatives based on findings. Launched HRBP connect and founder connect programs. Implemented RnR program and employee engagement programs.
• Admin:
• Successfully led 6 people admin team.

Feb 2019 – Sep 2024 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Have given leadership talks/guest lecture in different colleges on HR/Leadership related topics.
• Some colleges where I have spoken:
• IIM, Amritsar
• IIM, Udaipur
• IMI, Bhubaneswar
• NIT, Jamshedpur
• Tapmi, Bangalore
• Have been part of multiple panel and round table discussions with industry bodies on HR, hiring, career, leadership related topics.

Feb 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• # Led Recruitment strategy and execution for ClearTax. Scaled the org from 500 to 1400 employee strength.
• # Personally owned leadership hiring for the organization.
• # Hired and led a highly talented TA team of 15 resources. Guided and trained them for better productivity. Gave them right growth. Kept attrition in check.
• # Brought down vendor usage to under 10%.
• # Set up infra for TA metrices, tracked them closely and brought improvement in all the of them.
• # Lead employer branding with multiple ongoing projects.
• # Launched candidate experience survey and kept candidate NPS above 80%.

Jul 2014 – Feb 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Joined as an early member.
• Built multiple teams from scratch.
• Hired entire leadership team singlehandedly.
• Built and led TA team.
• Worked closely with leadership team on Recruitment strategy and execution plan.
• Campus hiring.
• Process revamp/standardisation.
• Brought data driven decision making in hiring.
• Company's employee strength increased by 7 times in my tenure.
• Employer branding.

Mar 2008 – Jun 2014 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Hired for mid to senior levels for multiple startups of that point of time. Some of them include - Myntra, Flipkart, Urban Ladder, Quickr, Snapdeal, Commonfloor and many more.
• Built teams for scratch for many startups.