Varadharaju Janardhanan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Nearly 3 decades of HR leadership experience.
  • Award-winning thinker and author in HR.
  • Expert in talent acquisition and organizational development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned HR leader with expertise in talent management and organizational development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Human Resources (hr)Talent AcquisitionTalent ManagementEmployee Engagement

Other Skills

Angel InvestorAuthorBenefits NegotiationBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyChange ManagementContract RecruitmentDeferred CompensationEmployee RelationsEmployee WellnessExecutive CoachingExecutive SearchGlobal HR ManagementHCM SoftwareHR Consulting

About

Dr. Varadharaju Janardhanan is a seasoned global HR leader, and award-winning thinker, author, educationist and coach with nearly 3 decades of experience with budding start-ups, mid-sized companies, and large multinational corporations in helping build and scale up their talent and people functions. In addition to his contributions towards building organizations for scale, Varadha also enjoys contributing back to the HR and student community as a speaker, author, certified executive coach and a mentor for early-stage tech start-up founders.

Experience

28 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Flipkart

3 roles

Chief Human Resources Officer @ Super.Money, A Flipkart Group Company

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Heading the people practice at Super.Money to build and scale its people and culture function from the ground up.

Vice President Human Resources, Flipkart

Apr 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Heading the Centre of Excellence - Leadership Development, Talent Management, DEI, Learning & Organization Development, Talent Acquisition, and Talent Branding.

Vice President Human Resources, Flipkart

Jan 2021Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Leading HR for Flipkart’s Business Division (CDO/M3) and subsidiary FKH+, while heading Talent Acquisition across lateral, campus, and leadership hiring, and driving talent branding initiatives.
Executive CoachingStrategic LeadershipAngel InvestorHuman Resources (HR)AuthorTalent Acquisition

[24]7.ai

Vice President and Head HR

Jun 2014Jan 2021 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Bangaon, West Bengal, India

  • [24]7.ai is a global leader in intent-driven customer engagement solutions, delivering customer engagement software and services that make it simple for customers to interact with companies through the web, mobile, chat, social, and phone. Forrester in their June 2019 edition has recognized [24]7.ai as a market leader in the Conversational AI space.
  • Heading HR for global R&D centers. Integral part of the senior management team driving people strategy and organization transformation from start-up to scale. This entails centralizing and defining talent acquisition strategy, Employee Engagement framework, Compensation and Benefits, Talent and Change management and more.
  • Key Highlights-
  • Created Global HR delivery Center
  • Led Global HCM implementation (SuccessFactor)
  • Implemented tax-friendly compensation structure
  • Authored and implemented holistic wellness program
  • Industry Accolades:
  • Managing Wellness @ work by Asia Pacific HRM Congress
  • Top 100 HR Tech Minds by World HR Congress
  • Exemplary leadership Award by Asia Pacific HRM
Executive CoachingStrategic LeadershipAngel InvestorHuman Resources (HR)Talent Management

Jda software

Director HR

Aug 2009Jan 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • JDA Software provides the leading AI-driven supply chain management (SCM) platform. Our end-to-end solutions span supply chain and retail planning, execution, delivery and workforce management. JDA’s delivers a more Autonomous Supply Chain™ for 4,000 of the world’s leading companies including 75 of the top 100 retailers, 77 of the top 100 consumer goods companies and 8 of the top 10 global 3PLs.
  • Key highlights -
  • Played a significant role in acquisition of i2 Technologies.
  • Developed a Mentorship program which encompasses Neuroscience, Behavioral Science, Indian Mythology and Management Processes.
  • Architected a Talent Engagement model which illustrates critical turning points in the employee lifecycle:
  • Differentiates Management Vs Development
  • Enables leaders to understand associates emotional dipping points
  • Multidimensional relationship of Competence Vs Confidence Vs Culture
  • Equips managers with engagement sensors - EWS
  • Assesses our retention tools in light of Proactive Vs Reactive mechanism
Executive CoachingStrategic LeadershipHuman Resources (HR)Talent Management

Tejas networks ltd

Director HR

Feb 2008Aug 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Tejas Networks, an India-based optical and data networking products company, designs and develops market leading products in the Optical Networking and Broadband Access (4G/LTE, GPON) segments. Ranked #1 in India’s Optical Aggregation Market, Tejas Networks has customer footprint in over 75+ countries.
  • Key Highlights -
  • Architected a model which illustrates critical turning points in the employee lifecycle:
  • Differentiates Management vs. Development.
  • Enables leaders to understand associates' emotional dipping points.
  • Multidimensional relationship of Competence vs. Confidence vs. Culture.
  • Equips managers with engagement sensors.
  • Assesses retention tools in the light of Proactive vs. Reactive mechanism.
Human Resources (HR)

Satyam computer

Head Functions

Oct 2007Mar 2008 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Human Resources (HR)

Lg cns india

Head HR

Oct 2004Oct 2007 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

  • Key Highlights -
  • Culture Sensitization Program
  • Alignment - Effectively align minds and hearts of employees to the brand.
  • Corporate Integration - Alignment and internalization of corporate vision, mission & goals by shaping behaviors and building competencies.
  • Conflict Management – Set up a robust process combined with Training and Mentoring.
  • Organization Restructuring
  • To suit the dynamics of market, business and organization vision, the following initiatives were implemented:
  • Eliminating redundancy in system.
  • Creating multiple metric-oriented career paths.
  • Restructuring grades & designation in line with role & market.
  • Enabling metric-oriented role descriptors.
Human Resources (HR)

Zoho corporation

Senior Manager HR

Jan 2000Jan 2004 · 4 yrs · Chennai

Human Resources (HR)

Le sante

Manager

Jun 1996Oct 2000 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Human Resources (HR)

Education

Azteca University, Mexico

Ph.D — Doctor of Advanced Studies (HC)

Loyala College

Masters in Human Resource Management

Loyala College

Masters in Chemistry

LIBA

Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management

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