Shekhar Prasad

• Designed and led leadership enablement initiatives for first-time and senior managers, strengthening performance conversations, accountability, and people decision quality across the organization.
• Partnered with the cross functional teams for value-added programs in areas of training, development, career mobility and job performance.
• Ensure compliance and governance with local labor laws and statutory requirements while dealing with disciplinary actions. Acted as an escalation point for complex employee relations cases, including performance exits, investigations, and leadership-level concerns.
• Providing direction for setting KRAs/ Goal Setting to employees and execution of Performance Management system while engaging with business leaders.
• Collate the necessary Talent analytics and statistical data for insightful monthly reporting to relevant stakeholders - Presenting HR / Talent dashboards to leadership team.
• Analyze key initiatives and team performance.
• Monitored accuracy in employee records and HR documentation for India as per compliance.

• Create and encourage a delivery-focused culture, delivery as per the assigned KRA / KPA.
• Take responsibility for performance and improvement of team delivery by coaching and mentoring.
• Team development through training and sessions.

• Built, scaled, and led diverse, distributed teams from scratch, driving operational excellence and business alignment. Extensive experience in driving workforce expansion, organisational growth.
• Driven strategic employee engagement initiatives to drop attrition to x% and increased eNPS to the desired target.
• Drive the competency and fitment analysis for long term success. Ensure governance and compliance with all relevant employment laws and regulations.
• Identify potential areas of focus to promote hiring initiatives. Designed and Improving hiring experience and worked towards making the firm as an 'employer of choice'.

• Executed scalable HR programs-including structure design, talent acquisition, policy frameworks, and employee engagement initiatives.
• Act as a change agent and a strategic partner to the business to lead strategic HR initiatives, including process redesign, technology adoption (HRMS, digital platforms), and organizational change management.
• Lead the integration of HR strategies with business goals to optimize talent management, enhance efficiency, and proactively scale for growth via skill gap matrix.
• Partner with business leaders & CXO to lead the HR needs- performance management, career growth, promotion and succession planning.
• Led India HR delivery to build a High-Performance team in a creative environment and enhanced HR policies to global standards.
• Driven employee engagement initiatives through focus groups, surveys, and team check-ins. Design and lead retention strategies in collaboration with business heads.

Scaled up global software product startups from 10 to 100 in span of 1 year.

Designed and implemented HR and talent acquisition process - optimized the workflow.

Reduced the attrition to 20% by enhancing the employee experience and candidate experience.

Streamlined offer management- reduced offer drop outs by 10%.

Employee engagement score up by 12%

Hiring cost reduced by 25%