Oct 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Berlin

• Took a planned career break from full-time employment. When ready to re-enter the workforce in Mar 2024 amid a challenging job market, I used the time intentionally to deepen my integration in Germany and invest in professional development.
• Completed German language studies from A1–B2 and passed the Telc B1 exam, strengthening integration and readiness for future processes.
• Earned EMCC (EIA) & ICF (ACC) accreditation as a Leadership Coach; completed 100+ hours coaching clients across the globe with a focus on career growth and leadership development.
• Led Culture First community (by Culture Amp), called Sustainable People Performance, designing and facilitating high-impact events on building resilience in results and achieving high- performance without burnout, fostering connection among 150+ global HR professionals through 20+ events.

Apr 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

• Luminovo is a B2B SaaS platform that brings together all electronics data, processes, and players in one place. In 2022, Luminovo raised €11M seed funding, entering a hyper-growth phase.
• Designed and launched a comprehensive performance review system with full organization-wide adoption and strong feedback on clarity, quality, and overall efficiency.
• Conceptualized and facilitated Luminovo’s first Manager Retreats, equipping new managers with essential leadership tools, fostering a peer-learning culture, and contributing to stronger team engagement and alignment.
• Developed and implemented a company-wide compensation philosophy and leveling framework, ensuring fair-pay alignment and full transparency across roles and levels.
• Refined hiring processes and introduced a structured, candidate-centric recruiting approach, significantly reducing time-to-hire and increasing adoption of the ATS across teams.

Dec 2021 – Mar 2022 · 3 mos · Germany

• Elucidate is a Berlin-based RegTech startup that innovates in the field of Financial Crime (FinCrime) risk quantification through a SaaS-based solution. In 2021, the company had ~50 employees across Germany and USA (Miami, FL), and raised €2.5M seed funding.
• Key projects included:
• Design, co-create, and socialize Elucidate Values
• Performance review process for 2021
• Compensation benchmarking and revised salary budget
• Employee one-on-ones to drive employee engagement and seek feedback
• Onboard collaborators for employee benefits, well-being, and recognition initiatives
• Streamline the recruitment and onboarding process making it operationally efficient and people-centric

Oct 2021 – Nov 2021 · 1 mo · Remote

• Enabling a remote-first start-up by designing and implementing strategy to attract, engage and grow talent, comprising primarily of consultants and freelancers.

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021 · 4 mos · Remote

Jun 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Greyamp Consulting is a boutique management consulting firm that helps large enterprises with their digital transformation journeys by focusing on process, people, culture, and technology. The company had about 20 employees in 2020.
• I designed and implemented customized models, programs, and initiatives that align and enable People, Culture, and Leadership to amplify the impact of digital transformation. The key problems I work on include fixed mindsets, process inefficiency, and attrition. I worked on numerous projects, mentioning some high-impact & noteworthy ones:
• Coach the Coach program for Agile coaches on identified skills
• Behavioural skill and abilities training for Tech teams in collaboration with the Agile coach team
• Building assessment questionnaires & models for driving a high-performance culture
• Developed and implemented a holistic competency framework that works in tandem with performance management system
• Individual Growth & Development model and process with the objective to kickoff learning and development

Jun 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• GoTo is the largest technology group in Indonesia, combining on-demand and financial services through Gojek and GoTo Financial brands. In 2018, Gojek received $1.5 billion Series E funding, and consisted of ~4000 employees spread across Asia. The company completed its IPO in April 2022, raising $1+ billion.
• Built and scaled Gojek’s global L&D function, aligning learning strategy and budgets with business and product growth, and strengthening capability-building across multiple geographies.
• Designed and launched a high-impact onboarding experience using Tydy, significantly enhancing new-hire satisfaction and accelerating ramp-up during a critical phase of organizational expansion.
• Implemented a company-wide Employee Assistance Program by aligning business leaders and HRBPs, improving mental wellbeing support and strengthening organizational resilience.

Sep 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

• In 2016, Gojek received $550M Series C funding (making it a Unicorn), and consisted of 60 employees in India, ~1000 employees spread across Asia.
• Set up and drive all People processes for India offices from scratch required in a start-up such as employee onboarding, induction programme, employee filing and documentation, HR compliances, designing and introducing employee policies and handbook
• Set up the POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) committee from scratch, and served as IC member for three consecutive years
• Managed and resolved various employee-level and leadership-level conflicts, wellbeing issues, and process-related or system-related grievances
• Lead several initiatives, programs, and policies from scratch (design and implementation phases) with a focus on employee development and engagement, keeping the stakeholders aligned, and constantly seeking feedback to improve

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

• OYO is an Indian-origin travel tech company that offers a hotel booking platform for entrepreneurs and small businesses, currently operating in 800 cities over 80 countries. In 2015, OYO raised $100M in Series C from Softbank.
• Set up and re-engineer hiring processes to improve team efficiency by streamlining the interview process and interview panels, implementing a recruiting tool (Recruiter box) and building a diverse sourcing strategy
• Hired 30 tech team members in 3 months
• Closed all critical tech and non-tech positions in the stipulated time frame, working hands-on with my respective teams
• Aid leadership decisions on engagement policies and strategies by providing analysis from Glassdoor reviews on a quarterly basis
• Responsible to manage end to end employee life cycle for all the Tech team employees (based out of the Gurgaon office)
• Served as an interim HR Business Partner for the Mumbai office to drive the performance review cycle, design and launch the onboarding process for the West region, designed recruitment strategy and forecasting dashboard (of hiring numbers) of West region for the leadership, and designed R&R strategy

May 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon

• ThoughtWorks is a Chicago-based IT consulting firm with 10000+ employees across 47 cities globally. The company has several globally-renowned contributions to the tech industry such as contributions to Agile Manifesto, building Selenium (leading testing framework), etc. and became a public company in 2021.
• End to End Lateral & Campus Recruitment, and various initiatives to scout premium tech talent.
• Supply Marketing and Employer Branding (including internal & external events)
• Very active in employee engagement and CSR activities
• Responsible for Joining & Onboarding

Apr 2011 – May 2011 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India