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Shruti Nishchal Leaves Netflix For OpenAI As APAC HR Business Partner

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Shruti Nishchal, joining OpenAI as HR business partner for Asia-Pacific in Singapore, smiling on a pastel coral backdrop

Shruti Nishchal has left Netflix to join OpenAI as HR business partner for Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore, from October 2026. She has more than 14 years of experience in people roles at Indian and multinational companies.

  • Company: OpenAI
  • Role: HR business partner, Asia-Pacific
  • Location: Singapore
  • Previously: Director, HR business partner for ads, marketing and partnerships, APAC, Netflix

Shruti Nishchal at Netflix

Nishchal spent six years and five months at Netflix. She joined in Mumbai in June 2020 as HR business partner. In August 2023 she moved to Singapore as senior manager, HR business partner for product, legal and finance across APAC. In January 2026 she was promoted to director, HR business partner for the ads, marketing and partnerships teams in the region.

She described her Netflix years as an "incredibly meaningful journey" and said she was "grateful" to carry its lessons into her next role.

Qualcomm, Axis Bank And Earlier

Before Netflix, Nishchal spent five and a half years at Qualcomm, from November 2014 to April 2020, as lead HR business partner for Qualcomm India's business teams and its Noida technology centre. She also served as talent development partner for the software technology and business groups, and from 2019 as diversity and inclusion lead for India.

Earlier, she was senior manager, talent and organisation development at Axis Bank in Mumbai, and assistant manager, learning and development at Titan Industries in Bengaluru, where she was retail learning manager for the watches business. She began as a management trainee in the human resources development programme at Tata Sons in 2010.

What She Brings To OpenAI

Her experience covers business partnering, diversity and inclusion, performance, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, organisation design and mergers and acquisitions. OpenAI has not issued a statement on the appointment, and no reporting line has been disclosed.

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