People Business Partner – Strategic HR Projects / HR Transformation at Skyroot Aerospace (2025-10 – Present)
India's first private orbital-class launch vehicle company
- Led organization design for 1,200+ employees across 30+ departments, restructuring a flat, undefined function/subfunction map with unclear role ownership; narrowed span of control from 14:1 to 6:1 to strengthen functional accountability, improving role clarity from 38% to 77%.
- Redesigned a fragmented PMS into a structured quarterly performance cycle on Darwinbox for 1,200+ employees, driving ~90% completion within the first month; standardized OKRs, KPIs, goal-setting, reviews and calibration, cutting review-cycle time by 30%.
- Built succession planning for 45+ critical roles, mapping successors, readiness levels and capability gaps; raised succession readiness (ready-now + ready-in-1–2-years) from 19% to 78%, supported by structured 9-box talent reviews.
- Led Total Rewards transformation for 1,200+ employees, partnering with Mercer to benchmark 900+ incumbents across 36 organizations; established P25/P50/P75/P90 market positioning and redesigned job architecture, levels, grades and salary bands across 30+ departments, aligning 65% of roles to the higher percentile.
- Built integrated compensation, variable pay and ESOP/LTI frameworks linking performance, internal equity, market positioning, merit, market corrections and promotions; designed mission-critical aerospace program-linked incentives with differentiated payout mechanisms.
- Owned a 110+ crore annual budget, replacing rolling monthly reviews of 20–40 employees with a governed annual cycle covering 1,200+ employees — by standardized eligibility, approval, exception and budget governance workflows.
- Evaluated 15+ HR platforms and led Darwinbox, Compport and Disprz implementation across 8 HR modules, consolidating legacy systems and reducing overall HR technology costs by 19% while improving process turnaround by 35%.
- Led Zoho → Darwinbox migration, redesigning core HR, workflows, approvals, employee self-service and PMS processes; achieved 76% regular active-user utilization within the month.
- Built executive people analytics dashboards covering headcount, attrition, talent mapping, compensation, performance and succession, translating workforce data into leadership insights.
- Built campus partnerships across 27 engineering institutes, engaging 3,000+ candidates and hiring 60+ engineers within 10 days to support aerospace capability build-out.
HR Consultant – Compensation & Organization Development at UTIITSL (2025-05 – 2025-06)
Government of India enterprise
- Conducted enterprise-wide HR diagnostic assessments across organizational structure, grade architecture, role design, and compensation governance, presenting strategic recommendations to the Acting Chairman and the Salary Revision Committee.
- Led workforce surveys and town halls covering 332 employees; analyzed employee feedback using regression and correlation analysis to support salary revision and grade restructuring decisions.
- Redesigned compensation structures for 350+ employees using benchmarking, pay-mix optimization, and compensation modeling to balance take-home pay, internal equity, and market competitiveness.
- Partnered with leadership on organizational restructuring, salary revision, and HR policy transformation; reviewed and modernized HR policies covering travel, transfers, recruitment, and leave management.
- Analyzed branch- and SBU-level financial performance against HR cost metrics, contributing to the closure of underperforming units and a 2.7% improvement in profitability.
- Developed Power BI dashboards covering workforce analytics, attrition, absenteeism, onboarding, financial metrics, and performance indicators to support data-driven decision-making.
HR Generalist – Talent Acquisition, Compensation & HR Operations at Secure Meters Ltd. (2022-06 – 2025-04)
HR partner for the New Product Introduction (NPI) business
- Led hiring across all business functions, launching a Talent Pipeline Dashboard that reduced time-to-hire by 37% (to under 28 days) and external hiring costs by 35%; implemented structured onboarding so new hires reached productivity within 30 days.
- Built Excel dashboards and HR MIS covering hiring, attrition, onboarding, workforce movement, vacancies, training, and manpower planning to enable data-driven workforce decisions.
- Led market compensation benchmarking for 100+ engineering roles using Naukri, hiring data, and consultant reports.
- Supported the end-to-end performance management cycle, including goal setting, reviews, 360° feedback, and appraisals; improved eNPS by 15% and achieved 90% internal hiring for key roles through competency-based talent mapping.
- Partnered with function leaders to resolve employee relations matters, including grievances, workplace conflicts, compensation queries, and insurance cases, ensuring timely resolution within SLAs.
Junior Technical Recruiter at Dash Technologies LLP (2021-09 – 2022-04)
- Executed recruitment for US-based clients across SDE, Analyst, Product, and Sales roles spanning Data/AI/ML, DevOps, VLSI, Embedded, and Finance, building a self-sourced database of 7,000+ profiles.
