Head - People & Culture - ECommerce/Startup

Description:

- Our client is a fast-growing, digital-first consumer brand thats redefining wellness and lifestyle for modern India. Built by a founder-led team, the company has scaled rapidly over the past few years and is now entering its next phase of expansion strengthening leadership, structure, and culture to match its growth ambitions.
- They are now looking for a Head of People & Culture a strategic yet hands-on HR leader who can work directly with the founders and leadership team to build a scalable, high-performance organization. This role blends strategy and execution. Youll be responsible for building the systems, structure, and culture that power scale while ensuring the organization remains fast, entrepreneurial, and values-driven.
Key Responsibilities:

- Strategic Partner to Founders: Align the people agenda with business goals and act as a trusted advisor, sounding board, and challenger to the leadership team.
- Culture at Scale: Translate core values into everyday actions through systems, rituals, and recognition programs.
- Leadership & Capability Building: Develop the next layer of leaders through coaching, competency frameworks, and succession planning.
- Build Scalable People Systems: Strengthen recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and feedback loops to make them simple, consistent, and scalable.
- Data-Led HR: Use people analytics to drive decisions around hiring, engagement, and retention.
Who You Are:

- 1520 years of HR leadership experience in fast-growing consumer, internet, or new-age businesses.
- Strong exposure to scaling organizations and building foundational HR systems.
- High-energy, execution-oriented, and comfortable working in dynamic, founder-led environments.
- Balanced in judgment empathetic yet firm, strategic yet deeply hands-on.
- A builder who enjoys designing people processes that create lasting impact.