Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 11 mos

• Talent management & strategic projects leader for Amazon’s People Experience & Technology org [30K employees, 40+ countries], working directly with Chief People Officer and HR leadership team on executive headcount & succession planning, skills for future, and decision-making velocity.
• Learnt how to build practical solutions for complex org problems. Easily the hardest job that I have had thus far!

Oct 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led a team of 7 employees responsible for 4 distinct talent management & development experiences (Performance evaluation & calibration, Org & Succession planning, Talent advancement, New employee success) for Amazon’s Devices & Artificial General Intelligence business [25K employees, 30+ countries].
• Learnt to evolve talent programs designed for high growth environment to be relevant in resource constrained but dynamic market.

Oct 2019 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Built a high-perfoming team to manage three distinct programs - C-Suite Talent Reviews, Succession Planning, and Talent Retention for Amazon’s Retail business (170K employees, 50+ countries).
• Led change management for launch of the new Talent Evaluation Framework for WWOps organization [90,000+ employees and 40+ countries], including countries in EMEA with Workers’ Council.
• Learnt how to retain key tech talent in a hyper competitive, post-pandemic market.

Nov 2018 – Oct 2019 · 11 mos

• Strategic people partner for a 600+ employee org consisting of Product, Program and Operations professionals.
• Led the development and deployment of HR programs and systems for new country expansion into Philippines with headcount growth of 2000 employees in the first year.
• Learnt how to expand and operate in a new country with very different labor market dynamics.

Jul 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Managed deprecation of Variable Pay for ~20,000 hourly employees across APAC Customer Service org (India, China and Japan).
• Designed and delivered the merit Increment and variable pay program for ~17,000 frontline associates.
• Learnt how to manage large scale changes. And, work with large volumes of data on excel.

Apr 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• People partner for a 1000+ employee org consisting of tech consulting and delivery professionals.
• Project leader for pan-India effort on revamping New Employee Experience – focused on defect reduction (related to pay and benefits administration) and process automation to provide just-in-time information to new employees.
• Learnt Kaizen. Also, that people do not cause defects. Poorly designed processes do.

Jun 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Design and write code for setup pages on Oracle Fusion's Project Management product.
• Led the global effort on development of free-text search across Fusion suite of products.
• Learnt structured problem solving and optimizing code and my time.