Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dec 2023 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• An opportunity to work for an Indian organisation going Global!
• Partnering with the Global Head TA & Chief People Officer to define TA strategies and evolve current HR systems & processes.
• Leadership Recruitment:
• I co-lead leadership recruitment – end-to-end process; Strategic partner to key stakeholders - CXOs, HR Centre of Excellence Leads for talent insights and market benchmarking
• People & Process Excellence:
• Lead multiple key projects involving a new ATS implementation, recruiter capability development and process adherence frameworks
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition teams (Corporate, Tech & Product, and Leadership Hiring) to define recruitment processes and enhance the overall candidate experience
• Talent Advisor, Internal Mobility (Sept 2024 - Current)
• I'm currently building out the Internal Mobility ecosystem for all of Lenskart. We are working on policy, process, tech implementation, HR execution and employee awareness. We're creating collateral to empower employee - manager career conversations and all things career transformation.
• TA Manager, Supply Chain & Logistics:
• The first 9 months - Managed the Supply Chain & Logistics PAN India recruitment team. We grew to a team of 6 from initial 3 members, set the full lifecycle recruitment process from scratch, built competency, and showcased predictability in terms of reporting and talent benchmarking + pipelining.
• Highlight: We achieved an overall 89% Offer Acceptance, 90% Offer - Joining rate (both up from <50%), 100% increase in recruiter productivity and success metrics

Nov 2022 – Sep 2023 · 10 mos

• Partnered with the HR Operations team to identify both productivity enhancement and process improvement opportunities between Talent Acquisition & HR Ops.
• We saved a ton of time & effort - roughly 97hrs/year through automation and waste identification - "Transportation & Over Production"

Aug 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• LinkedIn is where I learned to deliver at the highest standards while making sure to have fun along the way.
• Scope: All things recruiting, stakeholder management, culture advocacy and driving impactful initiatives.
• During my journey at LinkedIn, I led the Trust & Safety APAC TA team and partnered closely with recruiters and sourcers. Together, we achieved a Hiring Manager NPS score of 100 and a Candidate CSAT score of 94—the highest within India Talent Acquisition.
• We also reduced "Time to Hire" by an average of 11 days, delivering an exceptional experience for both candidates and stakeholders.
• LinkedIn has a beautiful culture of encouraging employee-driven initiatives. You get to work on a ton of Impactful projects, here's just a few:
• Streamlining "Interview Modules", Broadening the scope of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I), and Creating digital media collateral for Engineering Business Units.
• References: Syed Shadab Hussain (LinkedIn Sr. Manager Eng. TA); Sunil D’Cruz Harry (Director Eng. TA)

Dec 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• My first foray into HR (Talent Acquisition). This time, it was all about the values I stood for, impact I wanted to drive and how I envisioned my personal and professional journey compounding!
• Scope – End-end recruitment process from sourcing, interviewing, salary negotiations, offer roll out to a successful onboarding of new hires
• Highlight:
• Led a 1 year recruitment project with over 300 Headcount, 30 Hiring Managers and 5 recruiters.
• Impact: We delivered on hiring metrics(all within timelines set), created a recruitment + stakeholder management strategy, initiated a continuous talent mapping & benchmarking activity, became TA advisors.
• Honest opinion: It didn't come easy, TA was evolving from a service provider to a valued advisor to business, stakeholder management was different, reporting at scale was a challenge and recruiting at a never ending pace was nerve wrecking. However, these building blocks from the foundation of my experience and there was a ton of learning in the process.
• The experience cemented my interest in the HR community. Onwards & upwards from here!
• Technical Skills I’ve hired at Dell –
• Solution Architects – Sciencelogic, Solarwinds, Nagios;
• Network Engineers – Cisco Networking & Datacenter technologies;
• Service Delivery Engineer - Converged infrastructure/Hyperconverged infrastructure, VMware NSX, NSX-v/NSX-t, PCF, vsphere, vSAN, vRA,vRO, Vcloud Director;
• SAP – Basis Administrators

Jun 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• A leap of faith, I was keen to understand the HR ecosystem and IIMjobs was a blessing in disguise.
• I met leaders across Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partnering, Compensation & Benefits, Employer Branding and it broadened my perspective towards the HR community. I got inspired by CEOs of startups, CHROs of mid-sized organisations & Talent Acquisition Heads of large organisations - who were truly adding value within their respective ecosystems.
• Some highlights:
• Launched Hyderabad client acquisition efforts and further responsible for Bangalore client acquisition
• Achieved over 140% of annual targets through June 2016-March 2019 (it was a lot of up and few downs)
• Trained and mentored team members to maintain productivity and performance metrics

Aug 2015 – Jun 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Things didn't work out on the health front, it was a short, yet highly introspective journey.
• I did all things in the sales lifecycle, client acquisition - account management - upselling/renewing.

Mar 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• My first Sales role - dived into it to evaluate my own skills around story telling, negotiation, service delivery and the ability to handle rejections and stress (a ton!)
• I was part of the first 10 members that scaled Zomato and it's services in Hyderabad. We thrived on trust, credibility, results and creativity for our clients. I grew upwards to a Key Account Manager within 9 months and at the end of my journey, I had been a part of the team that launched the "Delivery Model", acquired and managed over 100 clients, contributed with interviewing and scaling the team to a 50 member sales ninja workforce and also ran training modules for the members!

May 2013 – Mar 2014 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Right out of University - high on excitement
• Contributed towards the operational support on activities such as intercompany equity and fixed income trades analysis, broker trades monitoring and break resolution and trade date and settlement breaks analysis