Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• HR Business Partner for Engineering at Groq !

Apr 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Partner to the CTO and CPO (founding members) and the Head of Engineering
• Lead a 5 member team to deliver people strategy for ~800 member org in a fast growing company, ~30% YoY growth across multiple geos and product lines
• Led multiple change management initiatives; a levelling structure revamp, a CPO transition, a comp. re-design and helped Samsara expand across EMEA/India
• Piloted innovative strategies to drive engagement, manager effectiveness, talent management, and DEI all while adopting a business centric approach

May 2022 – Apr 2023 · 11 mos

• HR Lead for the Platform Engineering organization at Uber, support an ELT (C-suite) member, multiple VPs and their leadership team in helping deliver business outcomes. Responsible for 1500+ emp.
• Key elements of work involve
• Advising on Leadership effectiveness & Org structure
• Location / international strategies
• Diversity & inclusion (making a dent)
• Job ladders, compensation and retention
• Employee programs (at scale)

Mar 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Partnered with the Engineering leadership team & the HR leadership to design & execute x-Eng programs. Examples include the Performance mgmt program, return to office, projects related to competencies, hiring etc..

Nov 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Help execute all scaled programs across Global Engineering - inc. talent management, performance, compensation, D&I etc.. Privileged to be working with the engineering leadership team of Uber and sr. HR leaders to drive meaningful change.
• Instrumental in revamping Uber engineering's performance management process.
• Designed (& own) Uber's (fully automated) Global Return to Work process to meet the needs of the changing demands of the workplace.

Sep 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Aug 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr

• HR for Uber's customer support Organisation, along with running key country wide projects.

Apr 2017 – Jul 2017 · 3 mos

• Currently lead the Talent & Rewards portfolio at Snapdeal and group companies.

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos

• Currently lead the OD,OE,PMS and the talent management portfolio at Snapdeal. Work directly with Snapdeal's leadership in building a benchmark organisation, with a benchmark culture.
• Designed Snapdeal's employee survey PULSE, the recognition system, the performance management system, the competency model, the 360 degree feedback (all deployed for the first time) and the change management efforts involved in deploying each of those.
• Over the past 6 months, also working towards establishing base people practices in Snapdeal's portfolio companies, Freecharge & Vulcan Xpress (logistics arm).

Dec 2015 – Mar 2016 · 3 mos

• At Snapdeal, we are in the process of creating benchmarks for our industry. Within the past 10 months, Snapdeal has seen many "firsts".
• Areas in which I have been directly involved and impacted are
• a) The first ever ( in the country) trimester based Appraisal system, and its complete adaptation on the SAP tool - Success Factors.
• b) Designed Snapdeal's Competency framework which is now being integrated with every allied people system
• c) Setup a Social, competency/value based recognition portal. Driving it across functions now.
• d) Ran a dipstick employee survey along with the final survey, along with mobilising, designing and project managing actions basis the results
• e) Running a first of its kind, manager capability program in Snapdeal to sweep the population and step change line management capability/delivery.
• f) Again, for the first time, assessment and development centers were organised for Middle management at Snapdeal. This will set the foundation for Snapdeal's first ever Top Talent Program.
• g) Lastly, designed / implemented an Umbrella People and Performance management system call GROW which encapsulated Snapdeal's promise to the organisation.

May 2015 – Nov 2015 · 6 mos

• Designing Snapdeal's People and Performance management system. Bringing best in class HR practices from across the world/industries and redesigning for the rapidly evolving Ecommerce industry.

Apr 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr

• Sales HR for over >4500 crore business of P&G (South West India). Worked with >50 sales managers & >15 distributors to enable a 10000+ sales workforce work effectively.
• Devised multiple initiatives and mentored >15 distributor HR professionals to curb attrition, effort days lost as well as step up capability. (Over a 1 year period , attrition came down by over 6% annually) Designed compensation for >10000 employees, worked on minimum wages, branch capability, infrastructure and training in the distributor organisation.
• Tenure helped me understand the FMCG business as well as the complexities of managing a blue collared workforce.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Joined as the HR manager for an interesting function spread over 8 locations with 90% of the leadership team based in international locations.
• Co-founded and developed the "local" leadership team to spearhead engagement and capability efforts across the organisation. Along with the India leader, led and designed multiple initiatives which led to +18 points increase in the internal engagement survey. Towards the end of the assignment, led the site shutdown process (Bangalore) in addition to relocation, site migration and engineered the formation of a technical hub in Hyderabad.
• Assignment helped me learn the basics of C&B, training, employee relations, leadership development & effectiveness, influencing and most importantly business partnering. Got promoted out of this role. Received 6-7 awards inside P&G.

Apr 2011 – Jun 2011 · 2 mos · Mumbai

• Project was intended to achieve a stretch target of 30% reduction in Recruitment cost, effort hours and lead time. Redesigned the entire process via smart redesign, outsourcing and non value added work elimination to over deliver on all three targets.
• Received a pre-placement offer at the end of the internship & eventually joined P&G from campus.

Jul 2009 – Dec 2009 · 5 mos · Kolkata

• Great 6 months in Kolkata in a unique work environment. The work involved working on Instrumentation of a government refinery. Tested & applied out my Engineering basics.

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Dehradun

• First ever Industry experience in a Fortune 500 Subsidiary. Worked on Programmable Logic controllers and their use in Oil rigs.