Sr. HR Business Partner
InMobi
Total years of experience :9 years, 2 Months
Serving 350+ InMobians in Product Engineering, Data & Enterprise Platforms, Data Science and Information Security teams across Asia and North America. Partnering with engineering leadership to unlock our competitive people edge in a fast-evolving tech landscape.
Key Areas of Impact -
People Strategy for Tech:
Served as interim Tech HRBP leader Jan-May 2022, covering for the Director. Aligned talent strategies with the technical roadmap in partnership with business and people leadership.
Led the HRBP delegation at Tech Strategy Summit 2022 with a focus on Cultivating a Culture of Pride and Purpose
Successful launch of Tech OKRs with key objectives of people, innovation, AI/ML, engineering excellence and tech interlocks.
Launched Operating Principles - Tech Competency Framework outlining actions and behaviours critical for engineer success.
Growth & Development - Being a Springboard Champion
Ambassador of Springboard Philosophy - nurturing individual aspirations to catalyse org growth. Elevated immersion within Tech leadership and Engineering teams through deep-dive sessions and experiential workshops.
Thought Partner in curating iLead Milestone (first-time managers) and Capstone (seasoned managers) leadership development journey.
Led Odyssey for Tech - accelerated development plan for high potential talent. Customized growth plans anchored on experience-exposure-education needs of each individual.
Employee Experience & Retention
Propagated InMobi People Vision - Unlock, Unblock and Uphold to improve engagement, develop a sense of community, boost productivity and retention.
Led the Pilot Launch of LITMUS - Org Pulse Survey driven by Machine Learning. Partnered with People Analytics on actionable insights for pod leaders to improve motivation, retention, and customer focus.
Act as Culture steward to help socialize and embed InMobi’s culture code and engineering operating principles into various HR processes, people’s behaviours, and actions.
Serve as a People Advocate, lead and conduct investigations through to resolution into employee complaints, grievances, allegations of misconduct.
Organizational Development:
Lead and support Change Management Initiatives during periods of growth, reorganization, or evolving business strategy.
Coach leaders on a breadth of topics to develop their strengths and improve their effectiveness.
Develop and implement Workforce Plans to ensure the organization has the right talent to meet its current and future needs.
People Programs
Program Manager for Annual Performance Reviews (2022 & 2023) - framework design & implementation of self, manager and talent panel reviews, compensation benchmarking and continuous feedback.
A strong sounding board, thought leader and executor for organization-wide people programs to improve employee experience and performance.
Partner with People Centres of Excellence on areas such as culture, learning & capability building interventions, talent reviews, rewards philosophy and recognition, new hire orientation.
As the Head HR, served 250+ data storytellers across Asia, Europe and North America. Transformed a founder-led function into an independent powerhouse for global people strategy creation and implementation. Transitioned from individual contributor to high-performing team of 4 direct reports.
Key Areas of Impact -
Created Gramener Leadership Competency Framework to develop capabilities. Adopted in Gramener hiring, career and succession planning for managers and above.
Launched Grow@Gramener - learning platform to nurture 50+ emerging leaders into future catalysts of change.
Led Gramener’s Culture Audit to achieve Great Place to Work-Certified™ (Oct 2019-Sept 2020)
Created Gramener Academy - Training Needs Analysis, CoE specific curriculum, technical and lifeskills training, continuous evaluation based learning outcomes
Introduced SMART Goal Setting (2018-19) and led org-wide transition to Objectives & Key results (2020-21).
Implemented Annual Performance Appraisal Cycle as per timelines. Introduced key improvements on career path, continuous manager feedback and performance coaching.
Championed D&I, CSR and employee engagement initiatives through Gramener Club.
Talent Management - post-hire to retire for 250+ employees - onboarding, leave & payroll management, exit process. Delivered 30% reduction in time and improved efficiency in key processes.
As the Head HR, served 250+ data storytellers across Asia, Europe and North America. Transformed a founder-led function into an independent powerhouse for global people strategy creation and implementation. Transitioned from individual contributor to high-performing team of 4 direct reports.
Key Areas of Impact -
Created Gramener Leadership Competency Framework to develop capabilities. Adopted in Gramener hiring, career and succession planning for managers and above.
Launched Grow@Gramener - learning platform to nurture 50+ emerging leaders into future catalysts of change.
Led Gramener’s Culture Audit to achieve Great Place to Work-Certified™ (Oct 2019-Sept 2020)
Created Gramener Academy - Training Needs Analysis, CoE specific curriculum, technical and lifeskills training, continuous evaluation based learning outcomes
Introduced SMART Goal Setting (2018-19) and led org-wide transition to Objectives & Key results (2020-21).
Implemented Annual Performance Appraisal Cycle as per timelines. Introduced key improvements on career path, continuous manager feedback and performance coaching.
Championed D&I, CSR and employee engagement initiatives through Gramener Club.
Talent Management - post-hire to retire for 250+ employees - onboarding, leave & payroll management, exit process. Delivered 30% reduction in time and improved efficiency in key processes.
Served as faculty - Verbal Reasoning for MBA and Current Affairs for CLAT aspirants. Developed Training Content, conducted Mock Interviews and Personality Development programs.
Chosen under Asia-Pacific HR Professional Development Program 2012. Groomed within diverse teams of Factory HR, Training and Talent Acquisition.
Partnered with teams across 3 geographies in APAC to deliver Leadership Speaker and Learning Sharing Sessions.
Supported the BU Head HR in strategic people initiatives such as leadership development, talent skill mapping, campus recruitment, enhancing rewards & recognition.
Designed tailor-made New Employee Orientation Program covering 250+ new joiners.
Internal HR Consulting - Analyzed consulting as a process and the emergence of HR as an internal consultant.
Branding in IT through Specialized Marketing Services - Built content writing collaterals including captions, taglines, concepts for presentations.
Best Student Coordinator - Corporate Relations & Placements Team, SIBM Bangalore (2012)
Certificate Course in Journalism, Panjab University 2007