HR Trainer & Placement Lead (Contract) - Dempo AI Business School - Goa
(2025-06 - 2026-05)
- Delivered seven HR subjects (Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement, Performance Management, L&D, Compensation, Labour Laws, HRM) to BBA students by building curriculum around live corporate case studies.
- Achieved an 85% batch placement rate by managing the industry interface and building partnerships with 25+ recruiting organisations.
Central HR Lead & HRBP (Unit HR) - Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) - Tamil Nadu / Kolkata / Delhi / Hyderabad
(2020-12 - 2025-01)
Progressive HR roles across five locations: Regional HR Manager (Tamil Nadu) and Acting Head TA; HR Head for the Delhi greenfield office; then Central HR Lead & HRBP for the Data and Tech Centre, Hyderabad.
- Served as HRBP (Unit HR) for a 150-member technology and data engineering team, partnering with 8-10 functional leaders on talent planning, organisational design, and performance management.
- Reduced organisation-wide attrition from 35% to 15% within 18 months by redesigning onboarding, deploying quarterly engagement analytics, and running manager capability programmes.
- Concurrently led Central HR and COE across all locations; owned policy frameworks, process standardisation, organisational development, and HR governance, reporting to the HR Head.
- Lifted employee engagement by launching Chai pe Charcha (employee-to-L2-manager forums) and replacing the 30-60-90 onboarding check with a 45-day feedback checkpoint to surface early-tenure issues sooner.
- Managed PIP discussions and end-to-end probation handling across the org-wide performance cycle (goal setting, calibration, development planning).
- Informed leadership workforce decisions by applying people analytics across attrition, headcount, bench strength, and gap analysis to flag at-risk teams.
- Cut HR document turnaround from 3-4 days to same-day, and offer-processing time by 40% with cost-per-hire down 23%, by automating offer letters, appointment letters, NDA signing, and application tracking on the HR portal.
- Managed the full HR lifecycle for 500+ employees in an earlier regional role; led a large-scale separation exercise with zero legal escalations and full statutory compliance.
- Stood up a complete greenfield HR function (policy, onboarding, operating processes) for a new office before the first hire joined.
- Maintained zero ER escalations across five locations through DAC cases and POSH governance; trained and mentored new HR joiners before deployment to regional units.
Recruitment Manager - BYJU'S (Think and Learn Pvt Ltd) - Bangalore
(2019-10 - 2020-12)
- Scaled the Talent Acquisition function from 0 to 200 recruiters in 14 months as the first external TA hire, delivering 400+ hires at 95% fulfilment with ~18-day average time-to-offer.
- Achieved ~87% offer acceptance across 50+ campus and lateral drives by partnering with the CPO on Senior Manager and AVP mandates, running ATS, offers, and onboarding on SAP SuccessFactors.
Area Business Manager - OYO (Oravel Stays Limited) - Goa
(2019-04 - 2019-07)
- Managed P&L for 25 properties before transitioning into a full-time HR career.
