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Harika Avula

People & Culture
Dallas,TX

Summary

A strategic and impact-driven People professional with 7+ years of progressive experience in corporate HR, blending a technical foundation in Computer Science Engineering with deep expertise in HR Business Partnership and People Operations. Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, enhance employee experience, and align people strategies with business goals. Adept at leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions, improve processes, and drive organizational change. Known for strong interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a track record of building high-trust partnerships across all levels of the organization. Thrives in dynamic environments, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution to deliver measurable HR impact.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2014
2014
years of post-secondary education

Work History

People Operations Lead

Koddi
Forthworth, Texas
07.2024 - 06.2025
  • Led structured new hire check-ins at 30/60/90-day, 6-month, and 1-year milestones. Partnered with managers to identify early red flags and course-correct, driving improved onboarding experience and retention.
  • Project managed end-to-end implementation of Awardco recognition platform, from communication strategy to rollout, resulting in measurable increase in employee recognition and engagement.
  • Collaborated with senior leaders to build outcome-oriented onboarding roadmaps that enabled strong integration and productivity among new hires.
  • Owned and executed monthly compensation reviews for eligible employees by analyzing internal compensation data using Culpepper, aligning recommendations with business leaders and the president, and managing changes in Workday including generating compensation letters.
  • Spearheaded automation of employee reference letters in Workday, improving processing efficiency and accuracy.
  • Designed and launched Workday HR metrics dashboard, owning the entire lifecycle including metric definition, stakeholder alignment, audit, and communication strategy.
  • Drove adoption and project managed the rollout of Workday for Slack integration, improving HR accessibility and communication for employees.
  • Supported HRBP team in company-wide performance management communications, content creation, and presentation development using Canva and other design tools.
  • Managed sensitive promotion discussions with leaders and executive leadership to ensure timely recognition of high-potential and high-risk critical talent.
  • Delivered actionable recommendations through deep analysis of post-performance review data, engagement surveys, and stakeholder feedback.
  • Handled terminations and exit interviews, ensuring compliance and collecting insights to refine retention strategies.
  • Administered I-9 verifications via Equifax and maintained compliance for new hires.
  • Recognized for being a collaborative and flexible partner across external vendors and internal teams to meet strategic business goals.
  • Identified and implemented process improvements in HR systems and operations to streamline data processing and Workday audits.
  • Adept at data storytelling using large datasets and dashboards to inform decisions in HR strategy, engagement, and planning.

Sr. HR Generalist

Buzzfeed
12.2020 - 04.2024
  • HR Business Partners Support: Collaborate and support multiple HR Business Partners in successfully operating day to day HR activities for Content Org, Buzfeed.com and Social Media/Publishing Groups, Technology and Admin Groups.
  • Support day to day operations of client group of 300 full time employees.
  • Employee Relations: Conducted thorough investigations into workplace complaints, resolving conflicts fairly and efficiently while maintaining confidentiality.
  • Risk Assessment: Successfully created templates for risk assessment for discussion with business leaders and conducted postpartum analysis and shared findings with executive leadership.
  • HRBP Client Support: Provide level 1 support to employees in content org and troubleshoot any issues they may have and partner with client group leaders in regular cadence to build partnership and regularly share team data dashboards (terminations, hiring, PTO balances etc.).
  • Group Aliases Management: Fielded employee enquires coming to HRBP support alias and canidothis
  • Alias and provided resolution within 24 hour lead time.
  • Workday System: Responsible for processing all employee data changes in HRIS system i.e processed spot bonuses, Job changes, terminations, promotions, title changes, Relocation requests, Maintained all employee records/data in workday during employee life cycle i.e., from hiring to offboarding.
  • Offboarding: Conduct exit interviews at various levels across BuzzFeed and provide post interview feedback to business leaders and HRBP.
  • Acquisition Support: Worked closely with HRBP's in successfully integrating HP and Complex Networks into Buzzfeed in various areas such as, onboarding, contract approvals, I-9s verifications within 72 hours of hiring while ensuring data compliance at all times.
  • Reorganization and Change Management: Successfully partnered with people team in carrying out layoffs as a part of company wide reorg.
  • Streamlined HR processes for efficiency, simplifying paperwork procedures and enhancing the overall employee experience.
  • Data Reporting, Analysis and visual Representation: Spearheaded the project of building, analyzing and reporting findings to executive leadership on PTO balances report to improve employee engagement and work life balance.
  • Performance Review Process: Partnered cross-functionally with the people team in successfully rolling out the full cycle performance management across the company.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of labor laws and regulations to ensure company-wide compliance with industry standards.
  • Acted as a team leader in group projects, delegating tasks and providing feedback.

HR Coordinator

Activision | Blizzard
09.2018 - 12.2020
  • HR Business Partners Support: Collaborated and supported 4 HR business partners in successfully operating day to day HR activities, processed high volume promotions, employee data changes, compensation changes within minimum lead time.
  • HR Core Functions Implementation: Collaborated with Talent & OD, HRIS and Business partners to successfully execute and Launch talent planning, annual performance process in workday.
  • Identified process improvement for overall talent planning process in Workday which saved numerous human hours across Company globally and increased efficiency.
  • Employee Communications: Won accolades for project managing, drafting announcement content, maintaining distribution lists, building process framework, and developed communication plan for promotion announcements for Activision in 2019.
  • Caught up lag of 80 promotions within 2 months timeframe.
  • Workday: Expertise on workday Interface and served as a single point of contact for all business partners in Activision for troubleshooting any client issues. Successfully audited, regrouped business groups, reviewed, and implemented employee data cleanup in workday.
  • Reporting/Dashboards: Built and analyzed various complex reports in workday for talent planning, performance reviews, goal setting process, compensation, termination reports and to provide insights to executive leadership team.
  • Onboarding Project: Worked with cross functional teams to redesign portal design and did site content mapping for revamping, designing, and launching new player onboarding portal across operating company to enrich onboarding experience for all new hires.
  • Cross Functional Collaborator and team player: Successfully Liaison and worked closely with HR Operations, HR Technology, Employee communication, IT, and clients to resolve employee issues within 24-hour window.
  • Holds acknowledgement from team to resolve 98% of issues within communicated timeframe.
  • Org Charts: Streamlined and process improved org charts to reduce manual work and man hours in manually formatting org chartsSuccessfully implemented by leveraging workday employee data and used integration model to build Org charts.
  • Employee Engagement: Performed key data analysis on survey results, built presentations for leadership meetings and work with business partners to ideate actions to improve employee engagement index scores.
  • Global Organizational Change Management: Devised & maintained project tracker, coordinated, and worked closely with HR business partners in implementing project post- mortem; partnered with HR Technology and Project Management Office to deliver results and recommended action items.
  • Offboarding: Conducted exit interviews to gather valuable insights into areas for improvement within the organization. Enhanced overall employee offboarding experience and built strategy to collected key data from pooled resources for devising talent retention strategies across Activision.
  • Succession Planning: Partnered closely with HRBP in carrying out succession planning for Director+ employees across the company by maintaining tracker, scheduling the calibration meetings, keying in the data in the workday ensuring accuracy and creating presentation for client leaders.
  • Goal Setting Reporting and followup: Reporting and following up with employees on goal setting completion and achieved 100% completion within timeline window.

HR Professional

GMR Group
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Recruitment: Managed full cycle recruiting from requisition in-take to successful candidate on-boarding and ensured position closures within 45 days of Recruitment lead time.
  • Rewards and Recognition: Improvised and launched new employee recognition platform which saw growth in number of employees recognized to 38% in first quarter itself.
  • Reporting Analytics: Analyzed series of HR metric reports on trend analysis, attrition rate, employee engagement score, and annual staffing plan focused on achieving strategic goals of organization.
  • Change Management and Job Level Mapping: Assisted front line employees during organization transition to HAY group structure, ensured data integrity and developed Job descriptions as part of grade evaluation during organization's change management.
  • Talent Development: Initiated Employee Engagement Initiatives like skip Level Meeting, Knowledge sharing sessions, HR Interactions and Employee Engagement action planning & survey which saw overall increase in organizational climate based on GPTW survey.

Education

Master's - Business Administration – HR & Marketing

Bahra University
06.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

JNTU

Skills

  • Talent Planning

  • HR Operations

  • Process Documentation

  • Onboarding and Offboarding

  • Change Management & Restructuring

  • Performance Management

  • Policies & Procedure

  • Employee Relations

Timeline

People Operations Lead

Koddi
07.2024 - 06.2025

Sr. HR Generalist

Buzzfeed
12.2020 - 04.2024

HR Coordinator

Activision | Blizzard
09.2018 - 12.2020

HR Professional

GMR Group
01.2014 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering

JNTU

Master's - Business Administration – HR & Marketing

Bahra University

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