Feb 2024 – Jan 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• FEV Tutor was a private-equity-owned (Alpine Investors) B2B SaaS company delivering 1-to-1 high-impact tutoring services for K-12 students.
• Implemented a HCM system (HROne) for 2500 employees and 1800 freelancers within 3 months, leading to significant time savings.

Feb 2024 – Jan 2025 · 11 mos

• Focus Edumatics was an Indian subsidiary of FEV Tutor, a private-equity-owned (Alpine Investors) B2B SaaS company delivering 1-to-1 high-impact tutoring services for K-12 students. The company had a presence in Bengaluru, Coimbatore and Chennai.
• HR Tech & Process Excellence:
• Won Employee Excellence Award for Q2 and Best Team Player Award in Sep all hands.
• Led HCM system (HROne) implementation for 2500 employees & 1800 freelancers in 3 months. Configured 150 processes,
• Achieved significant time savings in the lifecycle of freelance tutors by setting up typeform filtered application process and AI-enabled assessments. Helped the recruiting team to roll out offers to 1000 tutors in 6 months.
• Talent Management & OD:
• Managed goal-setting & performance review processes.
• Enhanced manager capability for 150 managers.
• Contributed to the creation of success profiles for 20 roles and the development of a competency library.
• Reduced non-adherence to time & attendance policies by 80%.
• Engagement & Employer Brand:
• Organized 12+ engagement events, including Pride Month and wellness campaigns, coordinating across office locations.
• Managed internal comms calendar and LinkedIn page. Collaborated with a fractional CMO agency, Tailwind, to craft content and narratives highlighting employees and life at the organization. Average follower growth per month - 7.4%.
• Rewards & Recognition Framework:
• Launched monthly & quarterly awards and peer recognition programs.

Nov 2023 – Jan 2024 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Recruiting:
• a. Developed an incentive plan for an in-house Talent Acquisition (TA) team, focusing on aligning recruiter motives with organizational goals, utilizing measurable metrics, and considering market conditions and recruiting philosophy.
• b. Analyzed candidate progress across stages for various sources to understand stage pass rates, stage entry and exit times, and days spent in each stage to optimize the recruitment process.
• DEI:
• Created personas and retention hooks tailored to different segments, addressing key reasons for attrition and providing actionable recommendations for improvement.
• HR Systems:
• Developed a 30:60:90 action plan for HR systems focusing on engagement, performance management, and discipline management, addressing key metrics and governance.
• Retention:
• Conducted an in-depth attrition analysis to identify trends, insights, and action plans. Developed strategies to curb attrition, including stay interviews, learning programs, manager effectiveness training, and new joiner handling

May 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Created training calendar for recruiting; trained 35+ new hires on the team; created reference guides
• Launched post-offer engagement process for India candidates to cover from offer to first 3 days on job
• Updated recruiting playbook, maintained documentation for 25+ policies & processes; optimized process flows
• Managed documentation, operations, queries & reporting for referral, internal mobility & rehire programs in India
• SPOC for recruiting vendors; onboarded job platforms-Instahyre, Jobsforher; part of yearly renewals with Naukri
• Handled end-to-end 25+ vendors from onboarding, POs, GRN, invoices, engagement, compliance & offboarding
• Streamlined monthly hiring planning exercises & QHA inputs to keep error margin in forecast within 5%
• Tracked headcount, resource deployment & recruiter capacity monthly through supply & demand model

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos

• Project: Practices and Training Needs Analysis for Branch Heads in the COVID-19 crisis
• Conducted 55 interviews with Branch Heads and other stakeholders in branch division; identified 22 themes
• Identified 10 training needs under 4 buckets for developing a blended learning journey for branch heads
• Grouped 21 actions/behaviors into 5 competencies that are part of competency framework for branch heads
• Researched L&D practices of 7 peer banks in Global & Indian private banking space to identify best practices
• Explored vendors, assessment options, effectiveness frameworks to propose pre-training assessment methods
• Collated across 5 branch types information on expectations, commonly sold products & new branch challenges

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

• Contributed to performance improvement of ARM Cortex A processor implementation at 7nm FF
• Restructured design logic to optimize performance and area utilization of chip through synthesis

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos

• Designed a controller with 19.33 times increase in gain and 20% increase in overshoot indicators
• Executed 216 trails to plot the trends of factors impacting performance & stability of the controller