Global software
leader plans to expand employee presence by more than a third in the country
this year
Bengalur, India,
16th August 2024: UKG, a leading
provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions, proudly
welcomes Nitin Chandel as Group Vice President and India Country
Manager. In his role, Chandel will serve on the UKG senior leadership
team and oversee key operations in India, with a focus on hiring top talent,
further enhancing the award-winning UKG culture and people operations, and
steering in-country product development and engineering for the company’s
leading human capital management (HCM) and workforce management solutions.
Chandel’s appointment follows the recent announcement that enterprise software
industry leader and former Co-Chief Executive Officer of SAP Jennifer Morgan has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of UKG.
“What an exciting time for both Nitin and me to join this special
company as we usher UKG into the next phase of growth, helping build great
workplaces in India and around the world,” said Jennifer Morgan, CEO at
UKG. “Our commitment to India remains strong. With more than 80,000
organisations worldwide using UKG, Nitin’s technical leadership and strategic
vision will help us accelerate innovation for our customers and better serve businesses
around the world who will benefit from our unmatched set of workforce data and
culture-building solutions.”
Chandel has extensive experience in the technology sector, most recently
as Head of BNY Mellon Technology, India where he oversaw over 5,000
technologists, helped modernise the company’s talent strategy and operating
model, and transformed the BNY India Technology centre into a premier agile
engineering hub. With a background in software engineering, Chandel spent the
last 27 years honing his expertise at leading large-scale transformations and
building high-performance engineering teams at companies like Visa Inc., where
he led a global team from India as senior vice president for its developer
platform and as India Site Head. He was also instrumental in building out
Visa's India Technology Centre in Bengaluru. Chandel formerly was a Partner at
Microsoft, leading Bing Ads development teams in India and in the U.S.
“I’m thrilled to lead the talented UKG team in India as we set out to
further scale our award-winning business to additional regions and deliver
exceptional value to our clients in India and beyond,” said Chandel. “UKG has
created a foundation of several thousand employees in India with a strong and
diverse culture. The opportunity to help UKG scale India operations even
further is a great professional privilege. I look forward to contributing to
UKG’s growth and success, working alongside some of the brightest minds in the
industry. Together, we will drive growth, foster a culture of continuous
learning, and contribute to our shared mission of transforming the future.”
Under Chandel’s leadership, UKG plans to grow its India team by as much
as a third across the country in the coming year, including growing its
well-established Noida team.
UKG first opened
operations in India in 2007 and has grown into a widely regarded destination
employer in the country, especially for women technologists. On top of being
named one of TIME Magazine’s World’s Best Companies and Forbes World’s Best Employer’s
in 2024, the company was a multi-year honouree on India’s Best Companies to
Work For list from Great Place To Work and The Economic Times, and
a four-time Best Workplace for Women winner by Great Place To Work India. [UKG acquired Great Place To Work in 2021, and has been ineligible for the organization’s global
culture rankings since that time.]
“The exceptional workplace culture, commitment to community, and
opportunities for innovation at UKG are highly attractive to top talent, making
it a premier choice for technology professionals like Nitin,” said Hugo
Sarrazin, president, chief product and technology officer at UKG. “Nitin
brings a proven track record of attracting, developing, and retaining
exceptional technologists and scaling businesses. We’re thrilled he will lead
UKG through the next chapter in India.”
Chandel will partner closely with Sumeet Doshi, India Regional Director
for UKG, and will succeed Ashok Saxena, vice president of engineering, who is
retiring after 23 years of service. Saxena was a key part of the company’s
initial 2007 India expansion and oversaw the organisation's growth from fewer
than 100 employees to more than 3,000 today.
“Nitin Chandel is a highly accomplished and respected business leader in
India’s technology community,” said Doshi. “I am eager to work closely with
Nitin as we accelerate the growth of UKG in India in support of our mission: to
help every organisation be a great place to work through technology built for
all.”
About
UKG
At UKG, our purpose
is people. We are on a mission to inspire every organisation to become a great
place to work through HCM technology built for all. More than 80,000
organisations across all sizes, industries, and geographies trust UKG HR,
payroll, workforce management, and culture cloud solutions to drive great
workplace experiences and make better, more confident people and business
decisions. With the world’s largest collection of people data, work data, and
culture data combined with rich experience using artificial intelligence in the
service of people, we connect culture insights with business outcomes to
show what’s possible when organisations invest in their people. To learn
more, visit ukg.com.
UKG Contact:
Priyanka Bhatta