About

Wajahat Ali is a Senior Manager and Human Resource Business Partner with extensive experience in the tech and product industry. Currently, he is working at Nykaa, where he has been instrumental in leading talent acquisition efforts, resulting in a 40% increase in net HC from the previous fiscal year in technology (Eng, Prod, QA, Infosec, UX, and DevOps). Wajahat has also been leveraging the use of alternative sources of hiring, such as campus hiring and third-party augmentation, to help scale new business through acquihire. Wajahat is a skilled culture builder and has been driving values town hall across the tech-prod org. He has implemented several employee catch-up initiatives, such as weekly catch-ups with new joiners, 1:1 catch-ups with HOD, and knowledge-sharing sessions. Wajahat has also built engagement through hackathons, Nykaa care initiatives, and grievance handling. He has identified critical employees and critical cohorts within the team and has worked with the business to avoid potential attrition. Previously, Wajahat worked at Finomena, where he helped the team scale from 25 to 100+ in one year. He hired for teams across functions, including tech, product, sales, and operations. Wajahat was responsible for policy and process formulation and implementation, communication of rationale and interpretation, and ensuring policy implementation by employees. He also handled grievance handling and disciplinary actions, interacting and coordinating with employees for interventions for employee issues when needed. Wajahat holds a Master of Business Administration in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration from Symbiosis. He has relevant experience of 8.61 years and has worked as a Senior Software Engineer, QA, DevOps, Big Data, and ML. Wajahat is a skilled market benchmarking professional and has participated in benchmarking exercises, extracted insights from benchmarking reports, analyzed salary trends, interpreted results, and provided recommendations on salary targets/ranges. He has also budgeted and forecasted total rewards impact for the next financial year by analyzing affordability of the business vertical and headcount growth planned for next year.