Swati Raghunandan

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in driving Diversity and Inclusion initiatives.
Proven track record in high-performance culture building.
Strong background in analytics and HR management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader specializing in Diversity and Inclusion within the technology sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

AnalyticsHr AnalyticsDiversity And InclusionRecruitment

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAttritionBig DataBusiness AnalysisBusiness CoachingBusiness IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCC++Change ManagementCloud ComputingCoachingCommunicationData-driven Decision MakingDifficult Situations

About

An HR leader specializing in business partnering, building scalable solutions, driving high performance culture, leadership and manager effectiveness, employee relations, diversity and inclusion and recruitment.

Experience

15 yrs

Total Experience

14 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Optum

Associate Director People Business Partner

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Microsoft

6 roles

Senior HR Manager

Sep 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

AnalyticsAttritionPerformance ReviewsNegotiationBusiness CoachingManagement Consulting+3

HR Manager

Promoted

May 2018 – Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos

AnalyticsAttritionPerformance ReviewsNegotiationBusiness CoachingManagement Consulting+2

Diversity and Inclusion and Recruiting lead

Mar 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Leading the Diversity Hiring plans across Services with skills wise & niche roles pipelining. Working closely with Business leaders to successfully plan and execute D&I plans
Working with a team of 8 recruiters and talent sourcers to implement the diversity plans
Trained and led D&I related infrastructure & capability building plans amongst HR team and hiring managers
Leading the Springboard (Women on break) re-hiring program in Hyderabad and Bangalore
Leading Diversity & Inclusion Hiring practices
Leading PWD hiring and onboarding in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Working with Facilities to bring long and short team infrastructural changes to support PWD employee engagement.

AnalyticsHR AnalyticsDiversity and InclusionRecruitment

Diversity & Inclusion Champion and Recruiter Lead Services India

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos

I hire for the global delivery & Support arm of Microsoft Services, which is the consulting and enterprise support services division of Microsoft. Experience next generation consulting and make a difference in the lives of millions of organizations world wide.

AnalyticsNegotiationHR AnalyticsHiringDiversity and InclusionRecruitment

Talent Sourcer

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos

My responsibility is to create beautiful synergy between aspirations of interested engineers and critical needs of the Cloud team in Microsoft by helping engineers find their dream roles here!

HiringRecruitment

Staffing Consultant for Bing (STCI) India

Mar 2011 – Mar 2014 · 3 yrs

Led the Hiring for BING Team in India since 2011 and hired more than 200 people in different SDE, SDET and PM roles in BING team. Have gained expertise and knowledge in Niche and broad sourcing, Senior level hiring, managing massive ramp-ups and critical internal tools.

NegotiationHiringRecruitment

Kpmg

Summer Intern

Apr 2010 – Jun 2010 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Summer Intern at People and Change Advisory Service (PCAS) in Business Performance Services (BPS) Gurgoan. I did 3 projects: 1. Induction Framework for KPMG client 2. Training Needs Analysis Framework 3. L&D Maturity Model which diagnoses the L&D Process Maturity of your organization based on CMM-P