Apr 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram - HR || Bengaluru - KA · Hybrid

• Designing and implementing a holistic people strategy that spans Talent Acquisition, Business Partnering, Total Rewards,and Organizational Development.
• Talent Acquisition
• Developed a cost-effective, in-house talent acquisition strategy to attract top candidates across Tech,Product & Business Functions and regularly reported recruitment metrics to leadership
• Leveraged HR technology to improve overall efficiencies by implementing an ATS, ensuring a streamlined recruitment process
• Created a structured job architecture for Engineering and Product teams, enabling a shift towards competency-based hiring
• Established a candidate experience journey to engage new hires from offer acceptance to onboarding, significantly improving the offer-to-joining ratio and enhancing cultural immersion
• Enhanced the employee referral program, increasing its contribution to overall hiring from sub-10% to 30%
• People Partnering,Performance Management & Rewards
• Built the HR Business Partner role to drive collaboration between HR and business units, focusing on talent strategy and workforce planning
• Designed and led HR processes, including the annual review cycle, OKR implementation, pulse and exit surveys, promotion cycles.
• Developed and implemented a comprehensive model for calculating promotion increases and annual increments, ensuring equitable and data-driven salary adjustments aligned with performance.
• Compensation & Benefits: Devised Compensation philosophy to ensure competitive pay and internal peer parity
• Worked closely with senior leaders to identify organizational needs, lead change management initiatives, and foster greater employee engagement
• People Management Operations
• Enhanced CTC design by introducing tax-efficient components to maximize employee take-home pay
• Managed and front-ended HR audits for compliance with external standards like PCI-DSS and ISO.
• Led post-acquisition efforts for cultural and process integration to align teams and practices

Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram - HR || Bengaluru - KA · Hybrid

• GoKwik was founded in 2020 with a mission, to democratize the shopping experience and increase the GMV realization for e-commerce businesses. We are backed by Sequoia Capital India, Matrix Partners India, RTP Global, and marquee angels.
• Talent Acquisition
• As the founding member of the Talent Acquisition function, developed and structured the team into specialized areas—Tech/Product, Data Science, and Business Functions—ensuring dedicated and efficient recruitment processes
• Built a comprehensive Talent Acquisition framework by implementing workflows for hiring, developing data repository structures, and standardizing job descriptions, offer letters, and candidate communication practices
• Built the initial layer of functional leadership (Founders -1) using solely in-house hiring methods within six months of joining.
• Played a key role in scaling the organization by 7x, ensuring recruitment efforts aligned with the company’s growth strategy
• Human Capital Management (HCM) Solutions
• Implemented a variety of tools across the entire HR stack to automate processes and enhance efficiency. This includes HRIS (Keka), ESOP Management Platform (Qapita), Offer-to-Onboarding Journey (HireSure), Slack-integrated tools like Pause for leave management and Huddle-up for surveys, and Spotlight (now Xoxoday) for rewards. These initiatives significantly reduced manual effort and saved time.
• Culture
• Introduced a pulse survey system that began with Gallup and evolved into an automated eNPS process, streamlining feedback collection
• Developed the 'Happy to Help' learning initiative to reinforce GoKwik’s cultural values
• Created a unique program for new joiners, 'Coffee with CEO,' to facilitate founder-led discussions beyond regular townhalls.
• Business Support
• Managed entire IT and Admin function, securing partnerships with travel providers, hotels, and laptop vendors. These partnerships helped in automating administrative workflows & also established long term relationships.

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

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Sep 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• In my role @ Aakash Educational Services Limited, I spearhead Dual function i.e Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding for their Digital Vertical Which is Aakash EduTech Private Limited an Amalgamation of Aakash Digital + Meritnation (Erstwhile),
• A Blackstone PE investee company & After Acquisition by BYJU's - I Lead Efforts on Attracting, Hiring & Building their Engineering Team for the Digital Test Prep Business @BYJUs.
• Some of the key deliverables & achievements have been as follows :
• Established the Talent Acquisition function at AEPL & Successfully transitioned it into a business-critical function aligned to organizational strategy.
• Defined, Designed & Implemented all the Processes, Work-Flow's, Policies pertaining to Talent Acquisition & Successfully Implemented Darwin - Box (ATS).
• Redesigned Evaluation for Academics & Faculties Hiring & Automated it with digital solutions, which further helped in increasing Efficiency by > 50%.
• Built scalable recruitment selection model(s) using the past interview trends & feedbacks to predict the tendency of selection & shortlisting levers.
• Designed & Implemented a Candidate Experience Mechanism which was Instrumental in deriving NPS for Talent Acquisition & Business Team, Followed by NPS for Overall Organization.
• Managed End to End Employer Branding on LinkedIN from Setting up Official Page to taking it about 20k++ Followers in 10 Months.
• Scaled Home-Demo (Field Sales) function at AEPL from 200 to 700 within 4 Months of Joining with 80% Hiring done through No Cost Channel.
• Hired About 1000 Employees encompassing all functions at AEPL in the Time Frame of 1st 6 Months after Joining.
• Established Statistical Modelling (Data-Driven) as a norm to envision complete recruitment funnel from sourcing to final selection & Derive No of Interviews to be conducted for all critical roles.
• Outside the Scope of Talent Acquisition: Successfully executed Compensation Benchmarking for the Engineering Talent.

Apr 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• I had lead Engineering & Product,Sales,Learning Experience,Program,Marketing hiring for upGrad,
• Some of the key achievements have been as follows
• Setup the Entire 1st Layer of Leadership Team (Founder's Minus 1)
• Brought Vendor Cost down by 100% - By Hiring all the Leadership roles internally - which included roles from Associate Director to Presidents & CxO levels. (For Both Business & Technology/Product Domains)
• Hired all the roles of Engineering function internally
• Hired 450 People in 2 Months for Across Sales/BD Functions
• Instrumental in setting up - One of the best performing Sales Unit (FOS - Field Sales, Unit) in upGrad
• Designed & Implemented Objective Oriented Hiring Process - which quantified overall hiring process - which was linked to Competencies
• Implemented Darwin - Box Recruitment Module

Nov 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

• In this role at upGrad - I have worked on 2 Broad Aspects - i.e Talent Acquisition, Campus Hiring & Compensation Benefits - HR Shared Services, With Primary Focus Being Talent Acquisition
• Talent Acquisition & Campus
• Handling End to End Talent Acquisition Activities for the following Business Units within upGrad
• Engineering & Product
• Program (Marketing & Operations)
• Marketing
• Support Team (Legal/Admin/HR/Finance/IT)
• Learning Experience (Student Success & Content)
• Optimising source mix ratio and leveraging technology
• Leading the Campus Hiring Initiative from Strategy/Planning & upto Seamless Execution
• Instrumental In Establishing Campus Connect with the likes of ISB, IIM's, IMT, MDI, BITS etc
• Played a Pivotal Role in Onboarding - ATS for Managing the Recruitment
• Compensation & Benefits - HR- Shared Services
• Worked on Annual HR Budgeting (Overall Costs) which was in sync with current & proposed headcount
• Handled the Entire Appraisal Cycle for the Organisation -
• Redesigned Compensation by Introducing tax friendly compensation structure
• Streamlined Sales Incentives
• Managed HR Audit
• Achievements:
• Successfully Managed the complete Campus Hiring for the 1st time as an Organisation – Hired 40 people across campus with 80% Offer to Joining Ratio
• Closed 20 Engineering/Technology positions in the span of 4 Months – which had 90% self-sourcing.
• Introduced & Implemented Recruiter - Box ATS, which helped in consolidating of Hiring Efforts
• Stabilised Sales Incentives - Made it Monthly Payout vs Payout once in 2/3 Months
• Brought Down the FNF Timelines from 49 Days to 24 Days.
• Executed Annual Appraisal with Revised payouts in April Itself.

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr

• In this Role I was moved to handle Leadership Hiring exclusively & below is what my role included :
• Exclusive experience of hiring - Leadership roles for functions such as IT, new aged services (UCC, Managed Hosting, Cloud, Mobility, Data Centre, Contact Centre, IT Infrastructure, Managed Security, Managed Services, Internet of Things, Machine to Machine etc.), Business Growth (Enterprise Sales, Business Heads for B2C Business) & Support Functions (HR/Marketing/Legal/Finance)
• Extensive experience using LinkedIN Recruiter, X-Ray Search, Google Search
• Maintaining Databases for all the Senior reach-outs from a future perspective & creating a pool.
• Achievements :
• Have closed critical Leadership Roles which include - DGM/GM - Enterprise Sales, Product,Engineering & Marketing background
• Was able to close 1 Principal Consultant role (Equivalent to VP) at an Global Life Science & Analytics - Because of which was open at their end for quite sometime.. Also PlatOz was able to sign contract with this Organisation given that this was a Pilot assignment/mandate which was shared & now this client is highest revenue/billing generator.

Sep 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

• In this role I was responsible to handle a team of recruiters & was also SPOC for all the clients from Telecom, Healthcare & Pharmaceutical domains & my scope of work included.
• Working on end- to- end recruitment for both Lateral and Leadership positions.
• Involved in end to end Client Management & Stakeholder Management (Business Manager’s at Client Place) and Niche Skill Hiring.
• Ensure high offer –to join ratio by ensuring excellent candidate experience and post offer engagements for.
• Working on improving the recruitment process by reducing the TAT, optimising source mix ratio and leveraging technology
• Providing daily, weekly & monthly recruitment status to senior management & maintaining and updating various MIS related to the same
• Preparing Market Intelligence report & Market Salary report for critical positions
• Attract top talent via job sites and LinkedIn, screen candidates, schedule interviews, negotiate salary and process offers
• Motivate & Engage with Team of Recruiters In Order to outperform on the assigned mandates..
• Achievement : Contributed to a historic annual billing achievement, setting a new benchmark at PlatOz.

Nov 2014 – Aug 2015 · 9 mos

• In this role at PlatOz I was responsible to work on Hiring requirements which were assigned Individually with the following approach :
• Managing the recruitment cycle from receiving the requirement, sourcing, screening, short listing candidates and scheduling interviews
• Understanding the nature and importance of the requirement given by the client via telephonic discussions
• Sourcing resumes through various channels such as Job Portals (Naukri.Com & Monster.com), References, Database, etc. as per the client requirements.
• Achievement : Closed about 45-50 Critcial roles during this period, amounting for an revenue of about 60-65 Lacs - which was an growth of about 35% - Compared to the previous 2 Quarters.

Apr 2014 – Oct 2014 · 6 mos

• As an HR Trainee, I was responsible for below set of tasks
• Understanding of the client & their business along with their competitors
• Understanding of Job/Position/Skill Set required by clients
• Sourcing of profiles as per the client requirement
• Interviewing of Shortlisted candidates and arranging their various level of an interview (TI/F2F/Video) with clients