Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

• Reporting to the Chief Information Officer.
• Working with technology teams, People & Culture teams, executives, technical program managers, vendors and enterprise architects.
• In this role, my aim is
• transforming the digital employee experience through an evolving complex portfolio of HR, Internal Communications and Workforce platforms.
• creating a strategically unified and intelligent work technology ecosystem that supports global growth and a high-performance culture.
• accelerating time-to-value on technology investments.
• building engaged teams that deliver delight to our stakeholders and customers.
• My focus is on moving beyond reactive system administration to proactive value management by:
• Driving Platform and Product Ownership:
• Establishing a clear, cross-functional roadmap and governing backlog to reduce redundant efforts and maximize technology investments.
• Business Value Realization:
• Driving cost avoidance and productivity gains by delivering scalable, high-quality technology solutions faster.
• Championing AI-Enabled Work Redesign and People Experiences:
• Selecting and integrating AI solutions to modernize processes, deliver personalized workforce capabilities and keep our workforce engaged and productive.
• Fostering Continuous Improvement:
• Building a center of excellence made up of staff analysts to define standards of technical excellence, focused on increasing the value, speed, scalability and reliability of our team's deliveries.
• Ultimately, my mission is to build a technology ecosystem that not only supports but actively drives business growth, operational excellence, and a world-class culture.

Aug 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Reporting to Vice President of People Technology.
• Business Unit Management:
• Managing and empowering a global employee experience business unit of 15+ Systems Analysts and Engineers, cultivating a high-performance, self-accountable culture focused on accelerated quality deliveries.
• Created the business unit's repositories, defining vision, standards, operational processes, competency and career progression framework to drive clarity, onboarding speed, and cross-team consistency.
• People Technology Architecture:
• Collaborating with executive leadership teams and IT architects to build value plans, conducting comprehensive ecosystem analysis across People Technology and Employee Experience, and ensuring compounding benefits through strategic system alignment.
• Architecting the enterprise roadmap for People Technology and workforce lifecycle systems and shaping initiatives that align platforms with strategic vision.
• Global People Experience Transformation:
• Responsible for managing multiple enterprise platforms for global workforce.
• Led the design and implementation of end-to-end global programs and solutions, from technology visioning to change management, managing ambiguity with high autonomy and driving scalable efficiencies across growing headcount and systems.
• AI Enablement in Global Work Technology:
• Uncovering AI-driven transformation opportunities in the workforce lifecycle.
• Exploring internal AI adoption and external AI enablement by leveraging new and existing platforms.
• Additional role as hands-on Lead Business Systems Analyst:
• Delivered a successful annual performance review through Workday and vendor management from SOW to post-deployment hypercare.
• Single-handedly maintained Simpplr Salesforce environment for global intranet.
• Prototyped and presented multiple product lines and 100+ Workday domains as Art Of The Possible series to executive leadership chains.

Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr

• Reporting to Director of People Technology.
• Became the global primary for
• Human Capital Management and Business Processes in Workday
• Intranet on Simpplr and Salesforce
• Automation testing partnership with Kainos
• Collaboration with ServiceNow
• Miscellaneous partnerships with corporate IT and business teams
• Led rapid automation efforts focused on systems consolidation, including a $90,000 annual cost savings initiative that modernized global onboarding for scale and employee experience.
• Ideated and implemented letter automation through Workday Docs, saving over 1,000 hours for the HR Operations teams and projected to save 5,000 hours globally, with aligned security & document management.
• Advised a cross-functional operational team from HR, Payroll, and IT to deliver a critical and complex absence management and time-tracking system in Workday for India, ensuring completion on time and within budget.
• Influenced business by developing expansive prototypes to address strategic challenges, including skills and competency frameworks, contextual feedback systems, machine learning-driven talent marketplace and LMS.
• Presented and secured a spot for talent management on the HR Executive Council’s roadmap by pitching an innovative custom roadmap of a suite of workforce solutions and demonstrating over 150 Workday domains.

Sep 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Reporting to Director of People Technology.
• Context:
• Chose a job pivot from a Lead India HR role to a global role in the People Technology team.
• Chose this to gain experience in speed and scale of design and execution.
• Learnt Workday administration from the ground up.
• Learnt people systems connected to employees and the workforce.
• Worked remotely in a scrum environment with US team members.
• Responsibilities:
• Played the role of process advisor, tech business analyst and systems engineer.
• Handled global HCM and business processes on Workday.
• Worked with senior leaders to build scale and reliability of people processes & business vision.
• Handled enhancements of new systems like Simpplr (intranet).
• Introduced automation testing in Workday HCM, Security and Payroll through collaboration with Kainos.
• Achievements:
• Refined multiple business processes and introduced enhancements to employee experience.
• Designed and deployed multiple new HCM processes such as Remote I-9 for the US.
• Set up global self-service capabilities like remote working requests.
• Built the following successful proofs-of-concept independently and received positive feedback on the demos from senior leaders:
• Built complete matrix organizations and processes for compliance, reliance and scale.
• Set up multiple capabilities for self-managing talent information globally.
• Researched and set up skills and competency libraries to support different business units.
• Set up a machine-learning-driven global career hub for continuous capability exploration, surfacing networking opportunities and career growth.

Apr 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Accountable for HR Operations of India and played a role in miscellaneous advisory practices for other geographies such as EMEA.
• Managed 1-member India’s HR Operations team for 1300+ employees in India and increased team productivity with no increase in team size.
• Supervised onboarding to exit processes from 400+ hires to 100+ exits.
• Ensured worker data integrity through audits, role corrections and change management.
• Finalized and submitted quarterly and annual compliances for India.
• Expanded the salary framework and single-handedly managed ad hoc and annual letters creation, document distributions and communications in India in record time.
• Played HR product owner for introduction, architecture and maintenance of multiple people systems, including selection of payroll and leaves vendor.
• Led multiple operations team programs, reduced escalations and enhanced systems through rapid incident resolutions, workflow tweaks and change management.
• Owned all HR inputs to payroll teams (average monthly OTP volume of 8 million INR and 55+ hires).
• Represented India HR in Finance’s Internal Audit meetings on all operational processes.
• Resolved complex salary incidents of varied large groups of employees through root cause analysis, corrective payroll inputs and conducting group communications.
• Analyzed impacts of local interconnected unstandardized people processes in multiple business units and guided global teams with recommendations at critical Go/No-Go times.
• Led Workday HRIS data preparation for India and EMEA offices & ensured a successful GoLive.
• Played the product owner role for India’s connected time, absence, compensation and benefits automation by explaining requirements to Workday Architects and leading testing over 3 months.
• Delivered complex large data conversion from multiple legacy systems.
• Led promotional activities with engineering leadership to reinforce employee engagement through knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Played a hybrid role of HR business partner and operations for Pune offices.
• Reviewed people framework and advised site heads, managers and HR team on personal, financial and reporting decisions.
• Spearheaded the mapping of 700+ employees in India offices under a new job profile architecture through discussions with business unit leaders.
• Streamlined critical employee data and headcount reporting processes for the EMEA region.
• Performed critical responsibility as sole HR analyst of India entity in two annual performance evaluation cycles of 500+ employees across 30 different teams.
• Redesigned policies and revamped the India handbook, ensuring all stakeholder approvals and providing ongoing education.
• Strategized employer branding and built multiple pipelines by self-learning media production and social media marketing.
• Started several communities of practice like women’s ERG, sports cell and CSR committee.
• Drove a successful project for identifying new online learning platforms for India.
• Produced multiple engagement and branding programs, including single-handedly creating annual offsite videos, social media administration and increased activity engagement and follower count.
• Owned and delivered a first-time Great Place to Work certification for India entity.
• Delivered a 5x increase in monthly membership of Pune Tech Talks, Avalara India’s meetup group, at zero cost over six months by working closely with leadership for revamping meetups and campaigns.

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos

• Transitioned to recruiter after internship and continued growing teams.
• Delivered targets by hiring experienced subject matter experts and engineers in emerging and niche roles and technologies such as SRE, SDET, AEM and landed cost tax research.
• Standardized processes by creating job description templates and leading change management.
• Introduced several automation workflows in Jobvite ATS.
• Worked with senior leaders to craft go-to-market strategies.
• Conducted hiring drives over weekends by high-quality candidate marketing and experiences.

Apr 2016 – Aug 2016 · 4 mos

• Hired engineers, tax research analysts and G&A associates.
• Worked through hiring challenges such as little market presence and email-reliant processes.
• Introduced improvements in manual processes.
• Played role in managing office activities.