Jun 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Built the People function ground-up driving talent, culture, and scalable HR systems
• Closed 100+ hires, including multiple senior leadership positions (SVP Products, Engineering Director, SVP Issuer Growth, SVP Merchant Growth, Head of Business Finance, Head of User Growth)
• Led and developed a high-performance team of Recruiters, HRBP, and People Ops professionals
• Led org design, created leadership bench, and developed a sustainable growth structure
• Improved hiring metrics: reduced offer cycle from 60 → 20 days for junior to mid level roles, improved offer to join ratio from 51% → 65%
• Improved employee experience by streamlining onboarding, off-boarding, payroll management, reimbursements, and background verification processes through HRIS adoption
• Built a comprehensive policy framework covering compliance (PF, POSH, audits), employee welfare (Parental Leave, Hybrid Work, GMC), and performance management (OKRs, variable payouts)
• Drove employee engagement initiatives, improving eNPS and elevating Glassdoor ratings through proactive 1:1s and innovative programs
• Developed inclusive policies such as enhanced ESOP structures, flexible benefits, and progressive leave programs

Oct 2022 – May 2023 · 7 mos

• Consulted two stealth mode startups – one Recruiting & another HRIS product
• Helped them understand the hiring lifecycle, map the current product landscape & identify opportunities

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built Interface’s core team (India & US) from single-digit to 50+. Recruited across Tech, Product,
• Design, Delivery & Implementation, Sales, Marketing, Growth, Customer Success etc.
• Independently recruited the VPs for Engineering, Delivery and Marketing
• Acted as a strategic partner to founder on org composition, benchmarking, ratios & budgeting
• Built the recruitment function ground-up into a team of full-time TAs and dedicated vendors
• Led HR function and set up people ops: Onboarding, Payroll, Employee Benefits, Compliance

Jul 2021 – Apr 2022 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built the Data Science team including the Director & Manager roles
• Planned and executed targeted sourcing project to grow Data Science team from scratch to 30 within
• 5 months. Mapped exclusively from Tier-1 product e-commerce companies
• Led performance management and career progression for my team. Managed dependencies and
• team dynamics while ensuring business success
• After Data Science’s targeted hiring success, replicated and templatized it for other hiring pods
• Created recruitment data ops for Meesho. This involved
• Fresh ATS implementation (Lever)
• Collaboration with various stakeholders to create recruitment analytics and dashboards
• Independently recruited for key leadership roles — Sr. EMs and above — across pods

Jul 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led recruitment for multiple BUs at Zeta, managing 250+ annual hires across Tech, Product, Design, Data Science, Program Management, Customer Success etc.
• Scaled org from 2-digit headcount → 4-digit over 5 years
• Acted as a strategic partner and set up a complete Business Unit (0 to 100+) in 12 months for a global product roll out
• Grew the TA team from 5 to 15 at various seniority levels. Provided guidance & operational
• assistance to help them grow. Managed team performance & dynamics while outdoing goals
• Identified and operationalised external vendors for hiring on challenging timelines
• Designed consistent interviewing and hiring practices by partnering with various stakeholders. This
• resulted in measured improvement in candidate experience
• Improved offer-to-join ratio from 50% → 75%, reduced senior role cycle times to ~90 days
• Collaborated with HR in building a strong employer brand
• Created and presented artefacts such as data dashboards and spreadsheets to persuade on
• decisions across benchmarking, budgets and diversity
• Independently recruited for key leadership roles in Engineering and Product

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos

May 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Oct 2013 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Founding recruiter for Tech and Analytics functions. Independently closed 90+ reqs across levels
• Instituted the recruitment strategy, facilitating long-term vision of being a tech product organisation
• Initiated and executed each phase of a fresh HRIS Implementation. Rolled out the software
• successfully to over 200 employees

Apr 2013 – Sep 2013 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Partnered with a technical co-founder to build an intelligent hiring platform that used proprietary Domain Intelligence and Best Fit scoring to match experienced jobseekers with the right roles
• Conducted deep SME interviews across engineering functions to create structured skill taxonomies (categories and subcategories) that powered the matching algorithm
• Designed the two-sided qualification flow: employers and jobseekers both answered structured questions, enabling precise matching on role-specific skills
• Drove growth on both sides of the marketplace, acquired employers and jobseekers onto the platform

Jul 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Led Account Management, Client Interaction and Operations
• Handled the entire recruitment life-cycle and hiring processes including onboarding new team members
• Collaborated with Nextcubicle.com as Sr. Strategy Consultant

Jan 2008 – Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• End to end hiring across tech, product , design and non-tech roles (India, US, Europe and UK).
• Independently closed 250+ reqs
• Mentored and led a small team. Was responsible for planning, work allocation, setting targets and
• successful implementation
• Nominated as Best Employee-Support Function for the year 2009