Apr 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Influenced key leadership decisions during Seed to Series A expansion across nine geographies, aligning talent and business priorities.
• Shaped workforce plans, role frameworks, and organizational structures to support rapid scaling while reinforcing clarity and accountability.
• Partnered with founders to guide on compensation philosophy, performance architecture, and retention strategy to strengthen organizational stability and outcomes.
• Built managerial capability by coaching leaders on performance calibration, progression decisions, and team health optimization.
• Advanced culture and engagement initiatives that reinforced core values and supported retention in a distributed team environment.
• Directed strategic talent planning for high-impact and leadership roles, ensuring capability grew in line with business aspirations.

Nov 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Orchestrated growth-aligned team structures and role prioritization during early-stage cross-regional expansion.
• Designed frameworks that enabled effective organizational scaling across SEA, US and Middle East markets.
• Strengthened leadership execution by advising on performance expectations, role evolution, and internal mobility pathways.
• Acted as a trusted advisor on employee relations and change navigation through rapid growth phases.
• Advanced workforce initiatives that promoted consistency in people experience across geographies.

Feb 2021 – Mar 2021 · 1 mo

Nov 2020 – Dec 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aug 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Drove talent outcomes by advising clients on role definition, capability requirements, and long-term hiring priorities, resulting in 50+ successful, sustained placements.
• Expanded client partnerships through market intelligence, talent mapping, and relationship-led business development.
• Led commercial discussions and negotiations, ensuring alignment between business objectives, talent expectations, and market realities.
• Evaluated candidate fit through a deep understanding of organizational culture, leadership style, and growth context, enabling durable hiring decisions.
• Coached candidates and hiring stakeholders on interview strategy and decision readiness, improving quality of outcomes on both sides.
• Ensured hiring processes met regulatory and right-to-work standards, safeguarding risk while maintaining hiring momentum.

Aug 2020 – Sep 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dec 2019 – Jul 2020 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Co-developed long-term workforce plans with senior management, refining recruitment processes.
• Improved candidate experience, establishing the client as a top employer choice.
• Contributed to varied recruitment projects, crafting quality job adverts, headhunting, and managing onboarding.
• Utilized diverse recruitment methods (LinkedIn, social media, online job boards) to attract and engage top talent.
• Identified and filled workforce gaps, aligning talent acquisition strategies for business growth.

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019 · 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019 · 6 mos

• End to End fulfilment of demands starting from Sourcing, Scheduling, Offer Negotiation till the candidate is on boarded.
• Post Job at various channels and use Boolean Operators and Keywords to search resumes.
• Sourcing of profiles from different sourcing channels using Active and Social Media.
• Collect and verify required documents from selected candidates and on that basis, offer is discussed.
• Ensuring that candidate joins under the given time frame and create backup in case of drop outs.
• Maintain own database and ensured it is utilized by regenerating supply as per the need and time.
• Do market research and provide Market Intelligence to Hiring Managers / Accounts for specific position and skills as per the need of the business.
• Ensure the Recruitment Matrix – Joiners, Offers, Average CTC Offered, Cost Per Hire, Channel Utilization, Lead time to fulfillment and Offer to Joiner Conversion is met and controlled under a given threshold value.
• Sourcing savvy through job portals like Naukri, Monster, Instahyre, Shine, IIM Jobs and Linkedin.

Jul 2018 – May 2019 · 10 mos

• Antal International is a Global Executive Recruitment firm with 140+ offices operating in 40 countries and currently rated as one of the fastest growing privately held recruitment firms. With over 1000+ top level consultants across Europe, Russia, China, Asia & Africa, Talent Search or recruitment has been globally made local by Antal.
• We have a top team of consultants who understand senior executives' career needs and can advise or consult them for their next move using well established and successful methodologies of recruitment. We believe in MARKETING our Executive candidates as one of our strategies.
• Antal consultants work closely together on a global level, to provide your business with substantial resourcing ability and the best staffing solutions across more than 40 countries around the world.

Sep 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Sourcing active and passive candidates through creative search strategies including: networking, cold calling, online databases – Google repository,employee referrals, LinkedIn, etc.
• Worked out CTC for prospective employees, salary negotiation & finalization of the final offer.
• Managing the confirmation process
• Conducted routine follow-up with employers to ensure satisfaction of service.
• Developed promotional materials to aid in recruitment and provided employers with resources to assist in recruitment needs.
• Represented Workforce Connection at conferences, talent marketplace events and job fairs.
• Active Involvement & keeping track of all paperwork,deputation and allocating resource with new assignments.
• Facilitation of smooth exit process for employees; conducted exit interviews
• Organizing events like conferences & seminars to have employee connect

Aug 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Coordinate day‐to‐day Activities of the university students and maintain all the relevant data & information.
• Aid as a single point of contact with Study Abroad Office for incoming students.
• Manage the visa process for incoming international student with all the relevant visa approval letters.
• Tracking and Maintaining paperwork for new and in house students.
• Organize the course registration process, Dormitory provision and airport pickup for students.
• Assist as an emergency contact to convey student’s concerns.Monitors health and safety of students, assists students when they have health issues.
• Arrange student activities and programs, manage all student related events and functions
• Create and maintain liaison with teachers and university management.
• Assist with International student Orientation Program.

Apr 2014 – May 2014 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Effectively utilize tools such as search engines, job boards, LinkedIn and social channels to source candidates
• Demonstrate success in direct sourcing techniques to include cold calling and internet searches
• Develop candidate talent pipelines through sourcing channels, recruitment campaigns, internet searches, networking groups, social media, database search, and referrals
• Build relationships with team members, candidates and professional network.
• Identifies target companies, user groups, professional associations which could lead to qualified candidates
• Track and follow-up on all candidates; evaluated on the ability to connect with potential candidates and set interviews
• Generate and submit job postings on job boards and internal/external website.
• Search resumes in applicant database and forward to appropriate hiring manager.
• Conduct initial phone interview screens to assess candidate's skill level, interest and cultural fit
• Determine the type of employment and company experience the candidate is seeking and respond
• accordingly
• Develop professional relationships with candidates to identify their goals and ambitions
• Fully explain the steps of the interview process to candidates so that candidates are clear on expectations.
• Making initial candidate contact and building relationships with the primary focus on lead generation and development of new candidate prospects system and ensuring that the local recruitment Policy is adhered to.
• Driving all recruitment activities and ensuring that the local recruitment Policy is adhered to.