Rajneesh Malik

Building India’s first holistic chemical-free ecosystem for food, wellness, and sustainable living.

• Manufacturing & Operations: Established a 3-ton/day cold-pressed oil production unit, integrating automatic and hydraulic pressing for optimal purity and efficiency. Designed and implemented SOPs for quality control, traceability, and compliance.
• Supply Chain & Sourcing: Built direct farm partnerships for high-quality mustard, sesame, sunflower, groundnut, and coconut seeds, ensuring 100% chemical-free sourcing with farm-to-fork traceability.
• Product & Packaging Innovation: Led label and packaging design, ensuring FSSAI compliance, sustainability, and premium market positioning. Introduced glass packaging to maintain purity and eco-friendliness.
• E-commerce & Distribution: Designing and launching www.sanchfarms.com, driving D2C sales while expanding across Amazon, and quick commerce platforms for PAN-India reach.
• Team & Operational Leadership: Built a cross-functional team across production, logistics, and marketing, ensuring seamless execution from manufacturing to delivery.

Scaled Mindtickle from a Series B startup to a global SaaS leader, driving 5X workforce growth and strategic HR transformation.

• Strategic HR Leadership & Workforce Scaling: Led 5X workforce growth from 150 to 750+ employees across India, the US, the UK, and Canada, ensuring HR strategy evolved alongside the business expansion. Partnered with leadership to align talent strategy with revenue goals, market expansion, and cultural evolution.
• Compensation, Benefits & Performance Management: Designed a global compensation strategy in collaboration with Deloitte & Aon Radford, aligning pay structures with business needs and industry benchmarks. Introduced Lattice for performance management, enabling continuous feedback, transparent reviews, and leadership development programs.
• HR Tech & Process Automation: Spearheaded HR digital transformation, implementing BambooHR (HRMS), Greenhouse (ATS), and Freshworks (HR query management) to automate key HR functions, improving efficiency and reducing manual HR operations by 30%.
• Change Management & Global Compliance: Led the "Future of Work" program, ensuring a seamless transition to remote-first and hybrid models post-COVID. Established global compliance frameworks for the US, UK, Canada, and Costa Rica, optimizing PEO services and workforce regulations, saving $120K annually.
• Culture, Engagement & Employer Branding: Spearheaded employer branding initiatives that resulted in Mindtickle being ranked in the GPTW Top 50 Best Companies to Work for (Mid-size category) for three consecutive years. Improved Glassdoor ratings to 4.8 through structured engagement, DEI initiatives, and leadership coaching.

Led HR strategy, talent acquisition, and organisational transformation for a global private equity firm.

• Strategic Talent Acquisition & Leadership Hiring: Designed talent acquisition frameworks for portfolio companies in tech and finance, ensuring a structured approach to hiring, onboarding, and leadership pipeline development.
• HR System Implementation & Process Optimization: Implemented Greenhouse ATS & BambooHR, creating an integrated HR ecosystem that streamlined hiring cycles and HR operations across UAE & India.
• Global Expansion & Compliance: Established offshore engineering hub in Bangalore, hiring 30+ engineers in 6 months while ensuring full compliance with labour laws, taxation policies, and global mobility frameworks.
• Performance & Organizational Development: Launched performance evaluation and KPI-based assessment models for portfolio companies, driving higher accountability, engagement, and leadership succession planning.

Transformed HR strategy, talent management, and culture-building at a high-growth Series A startup.

• Workforce Growth & Culture Development: Scaled Crowdfire’s workforce, creating a performance-driven, data-backed HR ecosystem that fostered employee retention and engagement.
• HR Tech & Talent Acquisition Transformation: Led the adoption of HiBOB (HRMS) and Lever (ATS), which optimised recruitment cycles, reduced hiring time by 40%, and improved candidate experience.
• Performance Management & Leadership Development: Designed a LatticeHQ-based performance review system, ensuring a transparent, data-driven approach to goal setting, feedback, and talent development.
• Employer Branding & Campus Hiring: Strengthened Crowdfire’s employer brand by launching structured university hiring programs across IITs, BITS, IIITs, and IIMs, positioning Crowdfire as a preferred startup employer.

• Company Overview: Series B- Mumbai, India
• Strategize and executed recruitment process for technical and non-technical roles
• Implemented Jazzhr as ATS for hiring
• Campus hiring at local colleges
• Built career's page website from scratch
• Manpower planning & forecasting
• Drafted On boarding Program, Relocation Assistance Program & Employee Referral Program
• Series B- Mumbai, India

Built a specialised HR consultancy catering to high-growth startups, gaming, and e-commerce companies, scaling hiring solutions and leadership recruitment.

• Business Strategy & Market Positioning: Founded and grew Adept HR Solutions into a profitable recruitment and HR consulting firm, focusing on fast-scaling startups, gaming, and e-commerce industries. Achieved a turnover of INR 3 million within 15 months.
• Executive & Specialized Hiring: Led senior leadership and niche hiring for high-growth companies, including expat recruitment for gaming firms, ensuring global talent mobility and seamless relocation.
• Tech-Driven Talent Acquisition: Implemented data-driven hiring methodologies, integrating ATS platforms to streamline end-to-end recruitment operations, pipeline management, and candidate engagement.
• Strategic Partnerships & Client Growth: Established strong partnerships with venture-backed startups and mid-stage companies, helping them scale their workforce through structured hiring processes, compensation benchmarking, and employer branding strategies.
• Operational & Financial Management: Managed all aspects of business operations, finance, and client acquisitions, ensuring sustainable revenue growth and service expansion.

Led strategic hiring, organizational scaling, and HR process optimization for global tech giants.

• Growth Hiring & Leadership Expansion: Designed end-to-end talent acquisition strategies that supported rapid scaling of engineering, product, and business teams across multiple geographies.
• HR Tech & ATS Implementations: Deployed JazzHR, Lever, and ATS-driven hiring strategies, improving talent pipeline management and reducing hiring costs by 35%.
• Performance & Workforce Planning: Developed structured onboarding, relocation assistance, and referral programs, ensuring a seamless talent acquisition and retention experience.
• Global Workforce & Compliance Management: Managed cross-border hiring, employee mobility, and onboarding operations to support high-growth, globally distributed teams.

• Company Overview: Bangalore, India
• Handled Managerial and Technical support requirements for GTSC
• Implemented BOOMERANG plan to connect with ex- employees
• Handled exclusive Diversity Hiring
• Bangalore, India

• Company Overview: Bangalore, India
• Worked as an Individual contributor and supported APG, Search and Platforms team of Y!
• Compensation Benchmarking for selected candidates
• Handled Mid to Senior Tech and Product Managers hiring
• Daily Interactions, Weekly meetings with hiring manager
• Bangalore, India

• Company Overview: Mumbai, India
• Mumbai, India

• Company Overview: Mumbai, India
• Mumbai, India