Senior talent professional Shraddhanjali Rao has joined Google as its head of HR for India market.

In a LinkedIn post, Rao, who joined the search-engine behemoth from SAP India where she was vice president – HR, said she was “inspired by the opportunity to touch a billion lives and ultimately make the world a better place through data and tech”.

Rao is an HR leader with extensive experience in developing and executing HR strategy for building high-performance organisations across geographies. Her areas of interest and expertise include strategic HR business partnering, executive coaching, change management, succession management, and corporate governance.

She joined SAP as associate manager, HR, in 2007 and steadily rose to lead its HR function for India in 2017, a role she held for 5 years.

Rao joined Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software services exporter, in 2004 after completing her MBA in HR & Marketing from T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal.