Shalini Aind

Shalini Aind is currently the Head of Human Resources at RocSearch. Prior to this, they were with Unacademy as Associate Director - HR from May 2020 to August 2020. Shalini has also worked with Max Skill First Limited as Chief Manager - HR from April 2018 to May 2020 and with SoftwareONE as HR Leader from April 2014 to February 2017.

As an HR leader, Shalini has spearheaded the human resource strategy and planning exercise, and led as well as inspired a team of 8 HR professionals to provide consistent service to all business verticals of SoftwareONE in India with an employee base of more than 500. Some of their key achievements include being recognized for exceptional performance and felicitated with Q1, 2015 Gold Star Award under the Leadership Quota, administering annual employee satisfaction survey, analyzing results, and presenting action plan to the management; designing an “Early Warning System” to arrest attrition and a “Passion Pyramid”, whereby employees could rate their managers; redesigning compensation structure to make it tax friendly and ensure compliance with legal requirements; advising and coaching business leaders on managing performance improvement plans of team members, creating career paths for employees, and building a talent pipeline for critical roles; rolling out the Group Insurance plan covering medical, accident, and term insurance for employees; tracking labour compliances, handling inspections, and ensuring adherence to labour laws and regulations; investigating employee dispute cases, conducting disciplinary procedures, and tackling employee dismissal in relation to serious misconduct, as member of the Internal Complaints Committee; conducting full cycle recruitment in alignment with the manpower plan including coordination with recruitment agencies, negotiation of salary offers, completion of joining formalities, and delivery of an excellent employee on-boarding experience; enhancing employee experience by improving TAT, as per market benchmark, for HR Operations’ processes such as joining formalities, payroll processing, full and final settlement of separated employees etc.

Shalini Aind has a Master's in Human Resources Management and Labour Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and a Bachelor's in Instrumentation and Control from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology. Shalini has also completed a certification in HR Business Partner Program from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad in 2012, and a certification in Conversation Certificate Course from Vital Smarts in 2011.

They are on a team with Saurabh Gupta - Head of Research, Kartik Bhargava - Head of Strategic Research, and Haneet Vaswani - CFO. Shalini Aind reports to Russel Fischer, CEO.