Anita Menon

Season Two Ventures & McLaren Strategic Ventures [https://www.mclarensv.com/]

• Supporting the Portfolio Companies in hiring and culture building initiatives.
• Developed recruiting and employee engagement initiatives for internal teams.
• Established internal policies & processes for India office & few portfolio Companies.

A Virtual Events Platform Company funded by Lightspeed & Balderton capital [www.hubilo.com]. Led Recruiting, Talent & Culture globally for a 300 size workforce with a team of 7 Talent acquisition leads & 4 HRBP's [India, UK & US].

Summary of responsibilities –

• Scaled Company from 100 - 300 employee size in 10 months.
• Established remote team working norms and culture across geography
• Designed & implemented global people policies & processes [India, US & UK] in compliance with the laws of the land.
• Designed and drove performance planning and assessment for Company
• Established Organisation structure, reporting structures, levelling and Compa ratios for Compensation guidelines
• Introduced various employee programs around mental wellness, diversity, inclusivity, employee coaching and feedback
• Cultivated positive relationships with employees by implementing monthly events to resolve issues, provide feedback and brainstorm

Worked as a Consultant with Startups supporting in hiring and engaging talent.

Clients: epifi technologies, Urban piper, Treemouse, Lilgoodness, Give India

• Built teams and scaled the Organisation from 100 - 1200 workforce across Bangalore, Mumbai & Delhi/NCR.
• Acted as a Strategic business partner to Senior Leadership and the Business for expansion and growth
• Led a talented team of 12 as HRBP's & TA professionals.

Supported in scaling Companies in their 0-10x growth by hiring the right teams and building engaging Culture.

Key deliverables

• Developed hiring strategy for growth & expansion, designed & implemented play books for candidate experience, employer branding, interview & assessment process.
• Established people centric policies & programs and implemented play books for Performance, Employee engagement, Diversity & Inclusivity, Recognition & rewards, Compensation & Benefits and Culture.
• Developed performance based pay models and organisation design framework.
• Facilitated in implementing ATS & HR Tech systems.
• Modus operandi - Build, Operate, Transfer
• Clients: Incture, Inatech, YourStory, Practo, Lowes, Egg factory, neointeraction,

A mobile app development & gaming company now known as Ascendum [https://ascendum.com/]

• Built and scaled teams from 100 to 300 employees
• Led, managed and delivered HR initiatives with a team of 4, distributed across HR business partnering, Talent Acquisition and HR operations
• Planned & led Campus hiring from top 50 Tier1 and Tier 2 Engineering Colleges across the Country.
• Designed and implemented bootcamp for the new hires.
• Drove performance planning and assessment for the Company.

• Led Talent Acquisition for 3 circles [Karnataka, Kerala & Kolkata]
• Partnered with Business leadership to recruit and on-board talent
• Built a superior experience to all stakeholders throughout the recruiting and on-boarding process maintaining TAT for hiring at all levels
• Developed targeted strategies to locate and onboard specific candidate types, meeting short- and long-term business objectives
• Oversaw full cycle recruiting vacancies each quarter.

• Http://www.reach.co.in/]
• Managed a team of 8 TA leads and responsible for business development, recruiting and client relationship.