Jul 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Driving people strategy, operational excellence, and culture building in a high-growth environment.
• As the HR Lead at a scaling organization, I operate at the intersection of strategy and execution — aligning people operations with business goals while fostering a high-performance, employee-centric culture. My mandate spans across:
• Strategic Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding
• Leading end-to-end hiring across verticals, including internship-to-full-time transitions. I own partnerships with campuses and recruitment vendors, and build our employer brand to attract top-tier talent aligned with our values.
• Performance Management & Workforce Planning
• Architecting review frameworks that enable continuous performance feedback, competency mapping, and data-backed decision-making. I directly support people managers through structured monthly reviews and appraisal cycles, ensuring clarity and accountability.
• Policy Design & Compliance
• Developing and implementing HR policies (leave, reimbursement, code of conduct, POSH) that are compliant, fair, and scalable. Initiated and operationalized our POSH committee and annual compliance training programs.
• Employee Experience & Engagement Strategy
• Designing and executing engagement programs that enhance retention, motivation, and culture — from onboarding journeys to leadership Q&As, fitness challenges, and non-digital initiatives like book clubs and community-led activities.
• HR Operations, Compensation & Vendor Management
• End-to-end ownership of payroll coordination, F&F, benefits rollout (Plum, Nectar), insurance, travel operations, and inventory management. Collaborating closely with finance and tech to streamline processes and ensure operational continuity.
• Culture Advocacy & People Partnering
• Serving as a culture steward through direct employee connects, feedback loops, and conflict resolution. I ensure psychological safety, drive transparency, and enable proactive interventions at every level of the organization.

Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Leucine is a no-code software solution that helps pharmaceutical manufacturers become compliant and audit-ready.
• Using Leucine, the Manufacturing, QA, and QC teams can ensure compliance by design across 300+ complex regulated workflows from material receipt to batch release.
• Hundreds of pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities globally use Leucine solutions daily to improve product quality, efficiency, and sustainability.
• Visit: https://www.leucine.io

Apr 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• A little bit about epiFi : We are a tech startup for digital natives. Our mission is to help our users demystify their finances, maximise their savings and spend intelligently. While money is not the most important thing in life, financial freedom helps you pursue things dear to you. We are on a journey to bring monumental impact in your everyday life by helping you take a giant step towards financial freedom, thus being at the intersection of technology and your aspirations.
• Check out our website : https://fi.money/
• Social handles : https://www.instagram.com/bankonfi/ & https://twitter.com/Bank_on_Fi?s=20

Dec 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Media.net is one of the world's leading companies in the Contextual Advertising space that provides a wide range of advertising and traffic monetization solutions. Since its founding, Media.net has constantly broken new ground in building innovative contextual advertising solutions.. We serve our contextual real-time ads customized for each visitor and each page view across billions of visitors, across 10's of millions sites/domains on a server infrastructure that runs 1000+ CPUs, terabytes of RAM, and 100's of petabytes of data.
• With 1200+ employees, Media.net has one of the largest teams worldwide building a global contextual advertising business. By market cap, Media.net is one of the Top 5 largest ad tech companies worldwide. By revenue, Media.net is the #2 largest contextual advertising businesses worldwide.
• Media.net is acquired by Chinese Consortium for $900 Million USD in 3rd Largest Ad Tech deal ever and this acquisition will fuel Media.net’s global expansion strategy and provide access to China’s world-class talent and capital markets.

May 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Throw away your new hire checklist.
• Rippling automatically does the 100 little things that IT, HR, and employees have to do when joining, working at, or leaving a company.
• We're hiring and would love to hear from you : surabhi@rippling.com

Jun 2017 – May 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Hiring for all the e-commerce/Product based companies for various roles like SDE/SSE backend, frontend, fullstack, Data engg, Data scientist, MLEs.
• Client companies - Flipkart, Myntra, JDA softwares, Curefit, Rakuten, Inmobi etc.