Sneha Choudhury

Portfolio Management:

• Served as an Operational Human Capital Advisor for the Incubation Program in Abu Dhabi, overseeing comprehensive HR functions for portfolio companies, including Talent Acquisition, Compensation Advisory, Organizational Structures, HR Compliance, and Salary Structuring.
• Cultivated strong relationships with Founders and stakeholders to effectively address their unique needs, facilitating successful leadership recruitment.
• Led the implementation of HR Management Systems (HRMS), payroll partnerships, and Employer of Record (EOR) models for portfolio companies.

Internal HR:

• Managed internal HR operations for Abu Dhabi-based employees, including onboarding payroll vendors and coordinating employee visa processes.
• Collaborated with internal stakeholders across multiple locations to ensure successful hires in Valuations, Legal & Compliance, and Investment teams.

• Working as People acquisition manager heading the talent needs across Colearn.
• Leading a team of recruiters based at Indonesia & India looking after End to End recruitment activities and managing stakeholders
• Setting up metrics to improve hiring activities
• Responsible for Talent Hunting, Recruitment Strategy, Vendor Management, Stakeholder Management and pre-onboarding candidates.
• Streamlining the interview and assessment process for different teams.
  Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces.
• Strategic planning & execution, leading team for target based closure & providing regular status reports.
• Resource planning, Strategy & delivery for multiple channels like Direct sourcing , LinkedIn & Employee referrals
• Constantly track team performance, share constructive feedback and identify areas of development/training needs of the team.
• Implemented Post offer pre-joining engagement model to maintain a constant offer to joining ratio of more than 80%

Special Projects:

• Acted as a SPOC for all the employees who relocated to Abu Dhabi for all employee queries and operations
• Worked closely with the vendor partners to manage immigration and paperwork
• Implemented payroll process for Abu Dhabi

• Heading recruitment for Edge Networks, catering to all the requirements across the organisation.
• Strategize with hiring leaders to develop creative hiring solutions in a competitive recruiting environment.
• Strategize with hiring leaders to develop creative hiring solutions in a competitive recruiting environment.
• Maintaining a competitive offer to joining ratio at 80% to fulfill the immediate business requirements.
• Maintained steady cost per hire with very less usage of external vendors.
• Evaluate assessment platforms for hassle free evaluation.
• Program managed multiple hiring events exceeding hiring goals.
• Compile and analyse data and metrics to support business decisions , allocating resources as necessary.
• Skilled in complex offer negotiations including Joining bonus, retention bonus, equity etc.
• Passively keeping the pipeline for Leadership roles

Technical, Product & Design Hiring

(SDE I, SDE II, Android developers across levels, Product manager and Product designer)

• Successfully built the Android, Backend and Product Management teams.
• Strategized different salary structures to attract talent and increase joining ratio.

Technical, Product & Design Hiring. Also included Non-tech hiring like Operations, Customer success, Marketing & Strategy roles.

(SDE I, SDE II, Android developers across levels ,Product manager and Product designer)

• Provided complete talent solutions for start-ups ranging from Series A to Series D. Worked on mid- Senior and leadership hires for E-sports( Mobile Premier League), entertainment( Sharechat, One championship), social e-commerce, fintech( Trusting social), logistics( Narvar) and mobility clients ( Bounce) to name a few.
• Consultative approach for every hire for the client. Worked very closely with VC firms in supporting them with few high impact resources within India and in other SouthEast Asian Countries.
• Supported Sequoia’s 10XE program in the backend

-Involved in hiring SDE I , SDE II ,Android developers across levels by conducting multiple weekend drives.

• On-boarding new joiners ensure smooth exit formalities. Conducted exit interviews and shared the analysis to the CEO to increase retention.
• Introduced Maternity and Separation policy , reworked on existing policies and exit policies. Introduced relocation policy for outstation candidates.
• Worked on Employee Handbook.
• Onboarded new payroll vendor, worked on tracking and maintaining the payroll data and employee details. Worked very closely with the finance team to ensure payroll happens on time.
• Managing all statutory compliance like PF/PT/ESIC and TDS on a monthly basis.
• Ensure there’s fun at the work , conduct fun events at work for inter-team collaboration.
• Tracking attrition on a monthly/quarterly/ annual basis.
• Took care of campus placements for Tech as well as Business roles from premier institutes within short notice.

• Responsible for catering all Talent Acquisition needs for Bangalore office and close positions as soon as possible.
• Actively work on social media platforms to attract top talent.
• Engaging with third party vendors, colleges & institutions to achieve recruitment goals.
• Handling on-boarding activities and conducting HR induction.
• Preparing HR documents like offer & agreement letters, confirmation, promotion & relieving letters
• Managing the large candidate database using excel trackers for respective roles.
• Coordinating with all the Hiring Managers before & after the recruitment process.

CSR Coordinator :

• Responsible for catering all the CSR activities for the Bangalore office.
• Identifying NGOs who cater to the organisational focus areas and work on engagement activities

• End to end recruitment for middle level management and leadership level as per clients’ requirement. Offer negotiation with candidate and client.
• Market mapping & analysis for niche skills