People Lead (Talent Acquisition & HR)

📋 Description

• Working with the founders on the hiring plan and owning it: which roles, in what order, at what bar
• Running senior and hard-to-fill hires yourself — sourcing on the Weekday platform, pitching
• Setting up the hiring machine: scorecards, interview loops, work trials, and a candidate experience
• Designing and running performance reviews, goal-setting, and feedback cycles that people actually
• Building the basics properly: policies, compensation bands, leave, payroll, and labour-law
• Owning onboarding, engagement, and retention — and reading attrition data honestly, including the

🎯 Requirements

• 2–5 years across talent acquisition and HR. You've been the first or second people hire somewhere
• You've recruited hands-on and closed senior hires yourself — not just managed agencies.
• You have strong judgment on people. You can tell a good hire from a good interviewer.
• You're a builder, not a policy-keeper. You write the process when there isn't one, and you cut it
• You communicate directly — no padding, no spin — and you can say no to a founder when it's the
• You know Indian labour law and payroll basics well enough to keep us compliant without a consultant

🎁 Benefits

• Full ownership of people function at a profitable, venture-backed startup - the culture you build
• Direct partnership with the founders on every hiring and people decision
• India's largest white-collar talent database and our outbound tools, for your own hiring
• A front-row seat to how a company scales, and the chance to build the team that does it