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Sushmita Venkat

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in end-to-end talent acquisition.
  • Revamped employee experience in fast-growing startups.
  • Strong background in HR compliance and people operations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition and HR expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionHr Business PartnerPeople SuccessEmployer BrandingPeople Operations

Other Skills

Candidate ExperienceChange ManagementCollege RecruitingCommunicationCreative WritingDiversity RecruitmentDocumentationEmployee Assistance Programs (EAP)Employee EngagementEmployee RelationsEmployee Satisfaction SurveysEnd-to-end RecruitmentEvent ManagementEvent PlanningExit Interviews

About

Hands-on experience in end-to-end Talent Acquisition for different roles & across levels. Subject matter expertise in HR & Psychology. Interested in people, culture, and how these 2 factors influence organizations, and the world. Key areas of interest: ▪︎Talent Acquisition & HR Business Partnering ▪︎Enterprise Sales & Customer Success ▪︎Research (Market, Consumer, User Experience, HR, Psychometric) ▪︎Journalism ▪︎Social Media Marketing ▪︎Branding & advertising Open to exploring opportunities across other fields as well. Open to relocation.

Experience

Orbitshift.ai

Chief of Staff

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Hiring across departments, levels & locations
  • HR Compliance (SOC2, ISO)
  • HRBP
  • People Operations: Employee Onboarding to Offboarding
  • Payroll
HiringHR CompliancePeople OperationsPayrollTalent AcquisitionHR Business Partner

Spotdraft

2 roles

Talent Acquisition & People Success

Oct 2023Aug 2024 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • ▪Managing TA team
  • ▪Created annual and quarterly OKRs for the TA function
  • ▪Key roles- US-based Chief of Staff, Sr Engineering Manager, GTM, Revenue Operations, Design, etc
  • ▪Volume hiring as the team is scaling very quickly
  • ▪Process improvement to enhance candidate experience, reduce TAT & increase joining ratio (improved NPS & increased joining ratio to 89% across org)
  • ▪Created SOP for org-wide TA process & handbook with good practices
Talent AcquisitionProcess ImprovementTeam ManagementPeople Success

Talent Acquisition & People Success - Manager

Jun 2020Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Revamping employee & candidate experience at a company that is revamping corporate contract automation worldwide! 👩🏻‍⚖️ 📝 👨🏻‍🎓 #ContractsOnAutopilot
  • ▪Sole HR from pre-Series A to post-Series A for ~2 years
  • ▪Singlehandedly scaled the org from 35 to 100+ employees in lesser than 2 years (over the next 2 years, worked with 1 more recruiter to scale it to 225+)
  • ▪ End-to-end talent acquisition. Hiring rockstars across Engineering, Product, Sales & Business Development, Partnerships, Marketing, Customer Success, Design, Human Resources, Legal teams in India & US
  • ▪Compensation Benchmarking
  • ▪Employer Branding. (Singlehandedly ideated & organized our 1st employer branding offline event)
  • ▪Documentation & pre-joining formalities
  • ▪Ensuring ISO Compliance
  • ▪Ensuring TA Compliance for SOC2 certification
  • ▪In charge of Information Security Management System, with respect to HR
  • ▪SPOC-POSH committee
  • ▪HR Vendor Management
  • ▪Revamped company's policies & procedures
  • ▪Employee Induction & Onboarding
  • ▪Payroll
  • ▪Employee Engagement [A wide range of initiatives way beyond merely organizing fun activities while working remotely ;) ]
  • ▪Handled insurance for employees & their parents
  • ▪Handled employee grievances
  • ▪Performance Management for 2 cycles
  • ▪TA & HR Process setting & improvement
  • ▪Exit process
  • ▪Handled employee swag hampers & gifts
  • ▪Mentored intern
  • ▪Onboarded ATS, HRMS, BGV platforms
Talent AcquisitionEmployer BrandingEmployee EngagementPerformance ManagementPeople Success

The talent deck

Member

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Networking & knowledge transfer

Headout

Talent Acquisition & People Operations

Jul 2019Jun 2020 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Employees at Headout ensure that people have exceptional travel experiences across the globe. 🧳 ✈️
  • The People Ops team makes this possible by ensuring that the employees have an exceptional experience at Headout!
  • Some of my key responsibilities:
  • ▪End-to-end talent acquisition. Hired innovators across different functions (majorly Performance Marketing, Growth, Operations, Finance, Design & Content) & levels for Bangalore & NYC offices, while prioritizing culture fit.
  • ⭐ Notable accomplishment: Scaled Operations team more than 2x in my 1st 5 months.
  • ▪In-charge of non-tech campus hiring
  • ▪Enhancing employee & candidate experience
  • ▪Performance Management
  • ▪Employee Engagement (it goes beyond birthday celebrations & outings)
  • ▪HR Vendor Management
  • ▪Rolled out candidate surveys
  • ▪HR & Talent Operations process improvement
  • ▪Shaping the organization culture
  • ▪SPOC- POSH committee
  • ▪Handling insurance for employees & their families
  • ▪Handling employee grievances
  • ▪Onboarding
  • ▪Exit process
  • ▪EAP
  • ▪Outplacement & Career counselling
Talent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementPerformance ManagementPeople Operations

Acengage

HR Counsellor

Feb 2019Mar 2019 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • ▪︎Root cause analysis of attrition
  • ▪︎Conducting exit interviews for employees leaving client organizations (requires asking leading questions, probing & coaxing)
  • ▪︎Rolling out employee satisfaction surveys (for client companies)
  • ▪︎Candidate engagement (engaging those who have received offers, but have not joined the client company yet & gauging whether they will join or not)
  • ▪︎Flagging outliers
  • ▪︎Looking out for red-flags & escalating to the respective SPOC
  • ▪︎Online documentation
Exit InterviewsEmployee Satisfaction Surveys

Nasscom

Intern

Dec 2017Mar 2018 · 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • ▪︎Secondary Research
  • ▪︎Event Management
ResearchEvent Management

Kidwai memorial institute of oncology

Volunteer

Jun 2017Oct 2017 · 4 mos · Bangalore

  • ▪︎Service learning
  • ▪︎Volunteered in the pediatric department of the hospital, assisting the in-patient children suffering from Cancer & children of adult patients, with their schoolwork, and tried to boost morale.

Schneider electric

Human Resources Intern

Apr 2017May 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • ▪︎MIS
  • ▪︎Created Job Description documents by consulting with various stakeholders & referring to several other documents
  • ▪︎Basics of LabourWorks software
MISJob Description Creation

Redington gulf

Human Resources Intern

Oct 2016Nov 2016 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

  • ▪︎End-to-end Recruitment (majorly tech & finance)
  • ▪︎Employee engagement
End-to-end RecruitmentEmployee Engagement

Education

Christ University, Bangalore

Master of Science - MSc — Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Ethiraj College For Women

Bachelor of Science - BSc — Psychology

Jan 2013Jan 2016

Chettinad Vidyashram

Biotechnology

Jan 2011Jan 2013

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