Jan 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Pioneered the establishment of Charkos’ Dubai entity as the first employee, building the entire operations from scratch.
• Ensuring compliance with local regulations and industry standards, managing legal documentation and operational protocols to support a robust business foundation.
• Leading a distributed team across India and the UK, recruiting top-tier professionals for the UK, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
• Streamlining recruitment and operational processes to accelerate hiring timelines and support scalability across the region.

Dec 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Partnered with HR leadership to streamline onboarding, visa processing, and operational workflows, enabling rapid team expansion during digital transformation.
• Served as a strategic business partner, leveraging talent mapping to align hiring with long-term organizational objectives.
• Established a Center of Excellence for Talent Acquisition, implementing a data-driven recruitment approach that improved time-to-hire and offer acceptance ratios.
• Strategized recruitment processes to optimize cost-per-hire while enhancing the quality of hires for tech and leadership roles.

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr

• Directed talent acquisition for tech, design, product, and corporate roles, aligning hiring with aggressive growth plans.
• Reduced cost-per-hire by 80% within two months through process optimization and hiring funnel improvements.
• Collaborated closely with HR Operations to streamline onboarding, compliance, and employee lifecycle processes, enhancing operational efficiency.

Jan 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Built tech and product teams from scratch as a pilot team member (among the first hires) for Vyng’s India and US offices, scaling operations to support strategic expansion.
• Transitioned into an HRBP role, overseeing employee engagement, performance management, and workforce planning while managing TA responsibilities.
• Coordinated with legal and compliance teams to establish operational frameworks for a remote first team.
• Delivered niche hires under tight timelines, collaborating with founders and stakeholders to drive rapid market entry.

Jun 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Working closely with the CTO and Hiring Managers to strategize hiring for niche categories like Engineering, IOT, DS, DevOps and Product
• Closed 13 DevOps Engineer positions in a record time of 30 days.
• Achieved 10:9 interview to hiring ratio in one of the most critical roles at Rivigo
• Reduced the HR spend by over 70% by moving most of the hiring process in-house
• Leadership Level hiring using LinkedIn, Headhunting, Hirist and Instahyre.

Feb 2014 – May 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Hiring for niche categories like Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Motion Sensing, Mixed Reality.
• Engage developers and freelancers working on the similar technology on various platforms to build a pipeline for future hiring
• Part of the core team, responsible for expansion planning, succession planning and evangelizing Gesture Research's culture
• Working very closely with the founding team to monitor and challenge the performance of the team and work with them to identify weaknesses and improve performance.
• Achieved a high employee retention and employee satisfaction rate
• Used LinkedIn to evangelize the company’s products and culture that increased the pull marketing by over 30% and leading to an overall increase in revenue by 27%

Mar 2006 – Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Part of the pilot team and set up the entire HR Department single handedly, incuding documentation, statutory compliance, hiring process and performance appraisal process
• One of the 5 top performers selected for transfer to their US Office (Seattle)
• Worked in Seattle (US) for over a year
• Joined as a part of the pilot team (first 10) and lead the growth to 270 employees in 2 years

Dec 2005 – Mar 2006 · 3 mos

• Supported early-stage sourcing in a foundational role.