Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Founding HR Leader - first one to join the leadership team with founders to head the People function & build Zupee from scratch to tremendous growth of 20x in business valuation and 40x in ARR.
• Built functional capabilities & business teams across the board from scratch - Tech, Product, Data, Design, Marketing, Customer Experience & Corp function i.e. HR Finance, Legal, Risk, Audit, Compliance.
• Built entire leadership team including CXOs and VPs to lead the functions & drive business matrices.
• Successfully built scalable & sustainable framework covering people, processes, policies, systems and tools to support the hyper growth.
• Enabled the growth journey of Zupee with multiple rounds of funding within an year.
• Valuation growth by 20x & ARR growth by 40x.
• People capability (HC) by 15x & New Product capability (Games) by 5x.
• Acquired best leaders & talents from top notch global internet companies to create the HiPo team & culture.
• Built entire org structure, comp philosophy and total rewards framework while being part of ESOP trust board, comp committee & other strategic business group of the firm.

Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana · On-site

• Head Talent Acquisition COE & delivery for OYO Group businesses - Hotels, Vacation Homes, Co-living, Student Housing, Co-working, Weddings. (managing team of 50+ Recruiters & 10+ Team Managers)
• Global hiring for PropCo – Investment arm of OYO Group across Americas & Asia.
• Global Talent Acquisition Program Mgmt. driving various projects on restructuring and redeployment, creating efficiency with cost + count optimisation & capability build-out for business coverage.
• Successful ramp up of 1500+ lateral hires across businesses within 6 months to launch new cities, accelerated growth in field force and central of excellence teams.
• Driving Transformation & Tech inclusion projects – Implementation and adoption of AI based sourcing & tracking tool – Skillate. Transitioning ATS from Taleo to ORC for better integration with HRMS & seamless on-boarding of lateral, campus & contract hires.
• Leading continuous improvement projects & revamped policy guidelines of Employee Referral, Rehire, Compensation Grid, Budget approval, Vendor Management & Governance Program.
• Accomplishment: Role elevated from BU Vertical - TA Head to South Asia - TA Head in 6 months’ contribution across TA/HR function.

Nov 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Head of Talent Acquisition COE and Recruitment Operations for 16 countries across Asia & China region for Syngenta commercial business & corporate function. (managed team of 50+ across levels)
• Global Talent Acquisition Lead for Digital Labs and Technology hiring, new capability build-out – start up org within for APAC, EMEA and Americas.
• Successfully ramp-up of Finance & IT shared services captive set up of 1100+ perm hires in 2 phases catering global offices.
• Lead Transformation project of building in-house TA capability and transformed recruitment function from Global RPO model to In-house hybrid model.
• Lead continuous improvement projects on People, Process, Systems and Tools to scale up teams and optimize hiring for growth.
• Internal Mobility & Employee referral campaign cross regional and functional to leverage trusted sourcing channel.
• Managed early talent program through campus recruitment – grow with business and rotation program in field and corporate.
• D&I champion driving various programs and initiatives to create diverse talent pipeline at workplace. Last stats – 36% gender diversity.
• Accomplishment: Got Band-5 Promotion within 1st year stint of APAC regional mandate in 2018.

Dec 2015 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• APAC Recruitment Lead for Technology business – delivery, business partnering, projects and initiatives. Successfully led Technology business new capability build out ramp up project of 2000+ incremental hiring – strategy, hiring, employer branding, recruitment marketing.
• India Lead for shared services businesses – Recruitment business partner for Risk, Finance, Operations, Legal and Compliance. (managed team of 30+ recruiters & 5+ Managers)
• Executive Leadership hiring bank-wide to build strong layer at MD/ED level locally in India and South Asia region. Successfully hired 2 MDs and 9 EDs in 6 quarters for Tech, Finance & Risk function of the bank handling regional & global portfolio.
• Lead employer branding and internal mobility for corporate functions – career forums and division capability showcase internal and external events. Career website upgrade and integration with social media micro landing pages.
• Lead Technology inclusion programs - Hacker Earth for online technical assessment and coding competition, Textio for gender neutral JD creation to attract diversity, Pymatrics for cognitive and functional assessment, Hirevue for video interviews & assessment.
• Leading & Championing Diversity inclusion programs: Real Return Program, Women in network (WIN) community for mentoring & networking.
• Vendor Management and governance - Performance review, on-boarding/off-boarding. Processes efficiency and change management, system implementations and upgrade.
• Accomplishment: Top performer in TA function with AA rating in 2015, Rave Award winner for business partnering & client focus in 2016.

Apr 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• CWM Vendor Management & governance - RFP/RFQ Assessment, Empanelment, Performance review, Off boarding on CW partners.
• Implemented & ran Managed Services Program model for contingent workforce hiring for Tech, Ops & Finance businesses. (managed a team of 10 recruiters & 2 HR specialist)
• Implemented HTD (Hire – Train – Deploy) model as flagship program for Ops division – contingent integration program.
• Leadership hiring for Operations & Technology – VPs across to build local capability & improve the span of control in growing offices.
• Passive talent pipelining - making delivery plans, sourcing strategies, referral drives and campaigns.
• Contributed in Diversity & Inclusion Projects – Alumni Events, Multifaceted Diversity hiring (Gender, Generation, Special ability, LGBT Ally).
• Contributed in Special initiatives projects – Armed forced integration program, Return-ship program focused for second opportunity for working women with career breaks, (TFI) teach for India, CTW program to name a few.
• Accomplishments: Applaud Award for leadership hiring - VP level & contributing in projects & initiatives in 2015.

Aug 2009 – Feb 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Recruitment Lead for focused projects BAU and T&M model hiring, managing off-shore hiring for BFSI, Telecom, Retail and Energy vertical customers across India, Middle East and Americas.
• Central Sourcing Team Lead: Managed a team of 30+ Sourcers & Recruiters directly, taking care of billable & non billable hiring of all BUs of IT Services business for India & Middle East. Team mgmt. – performance review & conversions.
• Hybrid RPO Solutions - Implemented first offshore RPO model in Wipro for volume hiring in Professional Services division & VOP model (onsite) for niche/value skills in Business Solutions division.
• Have successfully run the internal sourcing engine of shared services with reduced partner usage (7%), effective usage of social media recruitment tools (12%), lead various initiatives for TAT reductions and diversity hiring (28%).
• Accomplishment: Outstanding performance to Customer Delight in Yr. 2013, Best Performer in TA function for consecutive 3 Yrs. in a row with 3 band promotions.

Aug 2008 – Jun 2009 · 10 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

• Responsibility involved headhunting of tier 1 pedigree IT professionals in various technologies across domains & skills for Top notch product firms & emerging start ups. Passive search & pipe lining.
• Doing end to end resourcing for multiple Product development & Semiconductor domain clients - sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, follow up, joining. MIS & Reporting - raising invoice for joined resources.
• Accomplishment: Achieved annual targets within 6 months on closures & billing.