May 6, 2023
Jesaanto Reny Edwin
Passionately working towards redefining the usual human resource management into an exciting experience to create a better workplace environment and experimenting on increasing employee happiness quotient. I'm a HR professional with ~5+ years of domain experience in recruitment, HR operations and business partnering. I've worked with 0-1 startups, single-handedly set up the Talent, HR and Admin functions. I'm at jesantoreny@gmail.com, incase you want to discuss talent, HR and business.
Professional Experience
Human Resources Lead
Mar 2022 – Present (1 yr 3 mos)
At Flam, I lead the HR and Admin function, part of the Leadership team at Flam.
My key responsibilities include:
-Talent Management : Recruitment and entire employee life cycle management including On-boarding & Off-boarding
Built a team of 60+ with 25 Engineers and 20 Design folks, including marketing and sales roles.
Increased the retention percentage to ~90% and Referrals to ~22%, reduced the hiring cost by 80% in the first quarter.
-Performance Management (Set up performance evaluation metrics & assessments for the entire org)
-Organisational Development (Org culture change, OKR implementation & adoption,Succession Planning, Leadership Development)
Successfully implemented Org level and team level OKRs, increased the OKR awareness and adoption to 100% within 6 months.
-Setting up HR Policies & Procedures, letters from scratch for start-ups
-Compensation and Benefits (Processing payroll, Introduced Flexi Benefit Plan for Tax savings)
-Employee Engagement (Increased the employee happiness quotient from 20% to 80% over 3 months)
-Handling Employee Relations and Training and Development.
My Ad-hoc projects include handing HRIS, office finances, labor relations,
office administration, vendor management, online and offline community management, change
management and product support.
HR Executive
Jun 2020 – Apr 2022 (1 yr 11 mos)
At PagarBook, I worked as HR Executive, directly reported to founders', built and spearheaded the HR, Admin and finance functions. I joined them at an early stage and scaled the team to ~650+ employees. My key responsibilities include:
My key responsibilities include:
1. Talent Management - (Recruitment and entire employee life cycle management) Built the initial sales
and customer support function and scaled it to 250+ employees over one quarter. Directly worked with
the co-founders and leadership. Handled a team of 10 HR's and admin.
2. Compensation & Benefits - Handled payroll for 650+ employees with 3P vendors, introduced Flexi
Benefits Plan for tax savings.
3. Performance Management : Performance Evaluation & Assessments (set up evaluations and
assessments for different functions in the org)
4. Org Change & development ( Org Culture, HR automations)
5. Setting up HR Policies & Procedures, letters from scratch for start-ups
Employee Engagement (Maintained the employee happiness quotient above 60% throughout)
My Ad-hoc projects include vendor management, social media management, employer branding and
sales.
Talent Acquisition Partner
Oct 2019 – Jun 2020 (9 mos)
I worked as Talent Acquisition Partner at cult.fit(cure.fit)
My key responsibilities included:
-Sourcing for tech, non-tech and product roles from talent portals, social media and networks.
-Talent Mapping to build a talent database
-Vendor management- handled 10+ vendors for recruitment.
-Stakeholder management
-Liaison between leadership and HR team -Employer Branding
Channel Specialist - Recruitment (Via Cognizant)
Jul 2018 – Oct 2019 (1 yr 4 mos)
-Talent Mapping
-Talent research and sourcing profiles across all levels for Engineering and Global Business Operations from APAC, EMEA and North America locations.
-Experienced in sourcing profiles for functions like IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Business Development & Business Strategy. Tools used for sourcing profiles are LinkedIn, internal hiring tools and open web search.
-Market mapping and Industry mapping for leadership roles to have a better perspective.
My Ad-hoc projects included handling the CSR activity for the 150 member Google People Ops team.
Human Resources Intern
HGS - Hinduja Global Solutions
Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 (3 mos)
I interned as Recruitment associate End to end recruitment Bulk Hiring for Sales Internship and Research Research on "Influences of Psychological Capital on Individual Learning at Work"
Education
Certification , Strategic Human Resources Leadership 2023
Cornell University's online certificate program for "Strategic Human Resources Leadership"
Jain (Deemed-to-be University) 2016 – 2018
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing and Human Resources Management, General Management
INDIAN ACADEMY GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS 2013 – 2016
Bachelor of computer applications, Computer Science
St. Joseph's University, Intermediate, Science 2011 – 2013
Sacred Heart Girls High School, High School 2000 – 2011
Licenses & certifications
Learning LinkedIn Recruiter - LinkedIn
Issued May 2020
Working with Prehire Assessments - LinkedIn
Issued May 2020
Human Resources: Payroll - LinkedIn
Issued May 2020
HR as a Business Partner - LinkedIn
Issued Jun 2020