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People Operations and Talent Acquisition Manager @ OpenFX | Enhancing Employee Engagement and Recruitment Strategies

About

Employee Engagement Manager | Culture Champion | Data-Driven People Whisperer Hey there! 👋 I’m the one who makes sure work feels less like, well, work—and more like a place where people thrive, grow, and love what they do. With a career spanning people operations, recruitment, tech, and non-profit leadership, I’ve found my sweet spot at the intersection of data, people, and culture-building. As the Employee Engagement Manager at Appsmith, I’m all about creating magic behind the scenes. Whether it’s diving deep into data to understand what makes our team tick, crafting coaching strategies that help people level up in their careers, or orchestrating global offsites in dream locations (yes, it’s as fun as it sounds!), I keep the heart of the company beating strong. What do I do, exactly? I analyze qualitative insights to keep a pulse on company health, drive engagement, and help our people stay connected to our vision. I’m the go-to person for onboarding and offboarding, maintaining ESOP data and coordinating with payroll. From solving people-related puzzles to organizing week-long offsites, I ensure everything runs like a well-oiled, people-first machine. What I’m known for: 1. Turning people data into actionable insights 2. Leading seamless onboarding experiences that leave a lasting first impression 3. Bringing the “wow” factor to events, whether it’s a company anniversary or an epic offsite 4. Creating an inclusive, fun, and high-performance workplace 5. Being the ultimate problem-solver for any people-related challenge Before Appsmith, my journey was filled with diverse roles that shaped my leadership style: At Tophire, as an Account Manager, I managed recruitment for 21 clients, from seed-stage startups to large-scale enterprises. I built optimized recruitment strategies, and helped clients scale efficiently. My time with Teach for India was life-changing. As a Fellow, I led 112 students, working closely with teachers, parents, and the community. This two-year leadership journey allowed me to teach, mentor, and manage projects ranging from school initiatives to community-wide efforts. I also served as School Team Leader and Fellow Advisor, focusing on educational impact and social change. It taught me resilience, empathy, and the power of transformative leadership. I started my career at Wipro Technologies as a Project Engineer. I contributed to the automation and testing of automotive products for multinational clients, specializing in streamlining processes and optimizing performance. Let's connect and talk people 😀

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

People Operations and Talent Acquisition Manager at OpenFX, Apr 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1. Driving talent acquisition for specialized, regulated non-engineering roles across global markets (India, UAE, APAC) at a Series A fintech. 2. Building HR systems and tools, including an AI-powered recruiting workflow, to scale a growing people function. 3. Driving onboarding and creating onboarding flows and plans for non-tech roles.

Employee Engagement Manager at Appsmith, Feb 2024 - Jan 2026 · 2 yrs, People & Culture leader supporting a globally distributed, product-led organization through growth, scale, and change. Partner closely with founders and senior leadership to translate business priorities into people strategy, systems, and execution.

People Operations Manager at Appsmith, Feb 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos, 1. Executed people strategy aligned with business priorities across org design, performance management, workforce planning, and leadership effectiveness. 2. Scaled and supported distributed teams across India, Europe, the US, and other global locations in a fully remote setup. 3. Conducted 100+ structured diagnostic 1:1s per quarter to surface signals on performance, attrition risk, and manager effectiveness; influencing leadership decisions. 4. Revamped and scaled onboarding using a customized, repeatable framework, improving early clarity, trust, and ramp-up effectiveness for new joiners. 5. Embedded early onboarding milestones to assess execution readiness and enable faster course correction. 6. Designed and implemented the end-to-end performance management framework (Lattice), reducing review cycle time from 4 months to 1 month. 7. Owned workforce planning and executed planned exits over tenure, supporting business pivots and change initiatives while maintaining employee trust and organizational stability. 8. Built and owned a lean people-tech ecosystem (in-house HRIS, Iden, Lattice, LTSE → Pulley), automating onboarding and offboarding and saving 1+ hour per lifecycle event. 9. Admin for SOC 2 people-data compliance on Sprinto, ensuring audit readiness and data accuracy in partnership with Finance and Security. 10. Partnered with Finance on payroll operations, ensuring accurate monthly processing, audits, and employee-data integrity. 11. Led employee engagement initiatives, cross-border offsites (6 total), and org-wide hackathons to strengthen alignment and execution in a remote setup. 12. Established core people policies end-to-end (POSH, leave, reimbursements, mental health, insurance), including tooling, stakeholder management, and compliance workflows. 13. Partnered with leadership and Finance on people budgeting and workforce forecasting, contributing headcount and cost inputs aligned with business priorities.

Senior Assistant Account Manager at TopHire.co, Jul 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Recruitment and stakeholder-facing role in a high-growth hiring marketplace connecting top tech talent with startup and scale-up companies. Built strong foundations in hiring strategy, candidate assessment, and client partnership. Key areas of ownership and impact: 1. Managed end-to-end recruitment for 20+ startup and scale-up clients across engineering and product roles, owning the full hiring lifecycle from requirement scoping to offer closure. 2. Partnered closely with founders, hiring managers, and engineering leaders to translate business needs into clear role definitions, hiring criteria, and interview processes. 3. Built and managed high-quality candidate pipelines through structured sourcing, screening, and in-depth profiling, ensuring strong role fit and reduced hiring friction. 4. Acted as a talent advisor to candidates, supporting resume refinement, interview preparation, and offer negotiation to improve candidate experience and close rates. 5. Balanced high-volume hiring with quality benchmarks, delivering consistent outcomes in fast-paced, time-sensitive hiring environments. 6. Coordinated interviews and feedback loops across multiple stakeholders, strengthening decision quality and reducing time-to-hire. 7. Developed strong judgment in candidate assessment, trade-off discussions, and expectation-setting between candidates and hiring teams. 8. Gained hands-on exposure to hiring metrics, pipeline health, and recruitment operations, building a data-informed approach to talent decisions. 9. Strengthened stakeholder management, communication, and prioritization skills through parallel ownership of multiple client accounts.

HR fellow committee at Teach For India, Aug 2019 - Nov 2019 · 4 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, As a team member of the HR Committee, my role is to collaboratively lead a project which primarily divide on the well being of all the employees, through rigorous data Analysis.

School Team Lead at Teach For India, Jun 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Leadership and people-development roles in a high-accountability, resource-constrained environment focused on performance, coaching, and outcomes.

Fellowship at Teach For India, Mar 2018 - Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 1. Led and coached a cohort of Fellows, supporting performance, capability building, and execution discipline in complex, high-pressure environments. 2. Improved student learning outcomes through targeted interventions, structured goal-setting, and regular performance reviews. 3. Served as Fellow Advisor at the city level, acting as a people partner to new Fellows and supporting onboarding, transition, and early performance effectiveness. 4. Partnered with school leadership and internal stakeholders to align goals, manage expectations, and resolve execution challenges. 5. Contributed to city-level onboarding and development programs, strengthening readiness and role clarity for incoming Fellows. 6. Part of the HR Fellow Committee, working on employee well-being initiatives using data analysis and stakeholder collaboration. 7. Built strong coaching, feedback, and people judgment skills through continuous observation, intervention, and performance conversations.

Project Engineer at Wipro, Sep 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Served as an automation engineer for multinational clients, streamlining end-to-end testing for performance improvements. Client Projects: • Developed and orchestrated the execution of rigorous testing of a self-driving vehicle for a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer. Executed test case scenarios involving Telematics, Diagnostics, etc. using the Vehicle Spy tool [February 2016 – October 2016] • Designed validation testing of instrumental cluster panels for a South Korean car parts manufacturer. Had hands-on experience in testing tools such as CANoe and CANalyzer. [October 2016 – February 2017] • Spearheaded end-to-end development and testing, for unit and regression test suites for an internal project on vulnerability management. Developed HTML to JSON parsers in Python. [February 2017 – July 2017] • Drove automation of test suites for an SMB storage system in Python for an American multinational IT company to reduce human interactions and make the client’s product more cost effective. [July 2017 – November 2017] • Part of a manual and automation test group and the sole offshore functional tester in the healthcare sector for a renowned american healthcare service company. Responsibilities include an adequate knowledge of SQL and, running tests with ALM(Application life cycle management) and AS400/IBM I series to ensure the proper functioning of the concerned application.[December 2017-March 2018]

Education

Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, institute of engineering and management