Lakshmi Narayanan

Bengaluru

• Lead a 20-person People org (TA, HR business partners, people ops) supporting 2,400 employees across India and two global sites, owning a ₹6.2 crore annual budget.
• Built the leadership-hiring engine that closed 45+ director-and-above roles, cutting executive time-to-fill from 110 to 64 days and reducing agency spend ~₹1.4 crore/year.
• Re-architected performance management onto a quarterly OKR + continuous-feedback model on Workday, lifting goal-completion 31% and review on-time rates to 96%.
• Designed an engagement and culture program that raised eNPS from 18 to 49 and cut regretted attrition from 19% to 11% over three years.
• Owned multi-state and cross-border labor-law compliance and POSH governance, clearing two external audits with zero major findings.
• Hired and grew the HR leadership bench, promoting 5 managers into senior people-partner and TA-lead roles.

Chennai

• Built the talent-acquisition function from scratch, scaling the company from 300 to 1,100 employees and standardizing ATS-driven hiring across 6 business units.
• Cut average cost-per-hire 34% by shifting to direct sourcing, employee referrals and an employer-branding campaign that grew the talent pipeline 3x.
• Implemented the company's first HRIS and onboarding platform, reducing new-hire administrative effort 40% and standardizing compliance documentation.

Bengaluru / Chennai

• Progressed from HR executive to HRBP across recruitment, onboarding and employee-engagement mandates; promoted twice for delivery and people impact.