Oct 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

• Partnered with business leaders to align people strategy with organizational goals, enabling ~10 hires/month while maintaining an average hiring TAT of under 45 days.
• Designed and implemented competency frameworks and career pathing guides covering 100% of roles, creating clarity on growth trajectories and future leadership pipelines.
• Led end-to-end performance appraisal cycles for 150+ employees using a Metric based framework, increasing appraisal completion rates to 95% and strengthening manager–employee alignment.
• Conducted compensation benchmarking across tech and business roles, influencing pay decisions that improved retention in critical functions by 12%.
• Designed and facilitated L&D programs (soft skills, leadership readiness, technical upskilling), delivering 25+ sessions that impacted 200+ employees and customers, improving training satisfaction scores to 4.6/5.
• Launched and managed employee engagement initiatives (eNPS surveys, recognition programs, cultural events), improving eNPS by 18 points over two cycles.
• Partnered with leadership to navigate organizational change (new policies, performance processes, employer branding initiatives), balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution.
• Served as a bridge across HR, business, and leadership teams, ensuring seamless execution of people initiatives across multiple geographies.
• Leveraged HR analytics (attrition trends, engagement scores, appraisal data) to influence senior leadership decisions, directly shaping talent strategy.
• Drove values embedding programs and culture initiatives, resulting in 80%+ participation in organizational rollouts.

May 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · On-site

• Led Voice of Employees Project: Gathered feedback from employees through surveys and focus groups for the first time in the organization creating a formal channel for collecting feedback and increasing the 'Trust Index'.
• Introduced and executed Employer Branding Initiative: Attracted top talent through employer branding efforts, leading to a 25% decrease in time-to-fill vacancies.
• Created and implemented Rewards and Recognition Program: Established a fair and transparent rewards system, boosted employee morale and motivation with timely recognition.
• Managed Payroll Process: Ensured timely and accurate payroll processing, minimizing errors and discrepancies, resulting in a 99% payroll accuracy rate and improved payroll efficiency, reducing processing time by 20% through automation and process optimization.
• Conducted Exit Management Process: Streamlined the exit process, resulting in a reduction in exit processing time from 15 to 5 days. Gathered valuable insights from employee departures, leading to improvements in retention strategies and organizational culture which served as a data point for next HR initiatives.
• Calculated People Cost Projections: Provided accurate projections of human resource costs (People costs, HR Budgets) aiding in budgeting and financial planning
• Optimized Onboarding Program: Enhanced the onboarding experience for new hires which improved new hire retention rates by 20% through a comprehensive onboarding program tailored to organizational values and culture.
• Streamlined Hiring Process: Improved recruitment efficiency, reducing time-to-fill vacancies by from an average of 50 days to 30 days.
• Developed and designed first time People Manager Training: Equipped team leaders with strong leadership and managerial skills, leading to improved team dynamics and employee engagement.
• Enhanced organizational performance through effective people management practices and talent development initiatives.

Jan 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Gathering key hiring requirements from the business leaders and developing hiring plans for 5 functions simultaneously.
• Executing hiring plans to get relevant talent onboard using Greenhouse and Skillate.
• Reduced dependency on hiring agency and consultants by 85% by developing in-house capacity
• Researched and conducted compensation benchmarking for 20+ open roles across India and USA
• Built teams of Customer Success, Marketing, Design and Growth from scratch. Also, contributed in building teams of Product and Data Analytics to make the employee base of 150+ employees.
• Launched organisation wide rewards and recognition program increasing the satisfaction score in pulse surveys to 85%.
• Amended the benefits program introducing new benefits to cater to work-life balance and team bonding in the remote world contributing to eNPS of over 70 consistently.
• Directed the change management process with respect to ATS and HRMS tools. Completed the process within 30 days.
• Administered organisation wide 'pulse surveys' to keep a tab on employee engagement
• Mentored a managed a team of 3 people

Oct 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked in diverse facets of recruitment, employee engagement and Learning and development.
• I was responsible for non-tech hiring, introducing virtual engagement models for team building and launched learning and development programs (Both internal and external).
• Implemented Applicant Tracking system (Greenhouse) for assisting in recruitment efforts streamlining the recruitment efforts and reducing operational time by 45 mins per day.
• Implemented background verification process for employees as part of compliance. Conducted background verification for existing as well as new employees.
• Hired a team of 9 people for the United States office in the domains of product, marketing, growth and marketing.
• Introduced, implemented and managed employee benefits for the United States including Medical, Vision, Dental, life insurances; retirement (401)k plans, flexibility and time offs processes.
• Handled employee grievances of the United States Office.
• Worked on Greenhouse, Plum, Gusto and other internal tools and software.

Jul 2020 – Oct 2020 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As an intern at Bright, I began with recruiting for teams of customer success and marketing. Hired 4 people within the first 45 days at the organization.
• Worked on implementing and executing employee engagement plans including virtual celebrations and fitness classes.

Jul 2020 – Oct 2020 · 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom (Remote)

• 1. Training Design:
• Implemented the process of training flow and content design.
• Created & executed the training design for the organisation.
• Created content design based on behavioural training.
• Created learning calendar including workshops and launch of online modules.
• 2. Training Content Creation:
• Created online training manuals and learning programs for students of 6-12th grade and college
• students.
• Content delivery through e-learning.
• Boosted 20% increase in student engagement through high quality training content.
• Initiated 12% increase in student enrolment into the training programs.
• 3. Training needs evaluation:
• Conducted needs analysis of students through psychometric assessments to improve training.
• Assessed the effectiveness of the learning delivery processes through analysis of metrics and
• feedback.

Apr 2019 – Jun 2019 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked on an internal performance management system, intended for use by the entire organization.
• Contributed to the completion of an Excel-based performance dashboard intended for senior
• management and performance improvement.
• Created a communication plan to assist in effective conversations with employees, with the goal of
• conducting efficient and friendly performance appraisals.
• Assisted in the weekly publication of performance dashboards.
• Helped raise the project completion status of the performance management framework from 45% to
• 80%, alongside a team of 4.
• Participated in a quantitative research study, as part of the organization and MBA program

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Performance Management: Conducted the annual performance appraisal according to the records of
• the performance management system.
• Induction and Onboarding : Scheduled induction and created briefing documents which improved
• workflow in the early onboarding process.
• Recruitment: Assisted in the Recruitment process through creation and distribution of advertisements
• for vendors. Posted jobs on website and social media channels. Assisted in screening resumes and follow
• up for background verification of candidates. Created interview tool kit on Greenhouse software.
• Created offer letters for approved candidates. Scheduled interviews and responded to candidate
• queries.
• Review and Design HR policies: Reviewed and modified pre-existing recruitment process and attendance policy such as written tests, interview material and job description.
• Other tasks: Collected and Updated employee information onto the Online Management System.
• Assisted in creating report and maintaining data in the system.