People Lead (Talent Acquisition & HR)

4 hours, 32 minutes ago
Full-time
Mid Level
HR and Recruiting
Weekday

Weekday

Weekday helps companies hire engineers who are vouched by other software engineers, enabling passive income for engineers. They offer services like drafting outreach messages, shortlisting candidates, and conducting reference checks. Backed by Y Combin...

Construction & Engineering
11-50
Founded 2020

Description

  • Develop and own hiring plans with the founders, including role prioritization and hiring standards.
  • Run senior and difficult-to-fill searches, including sourcing, pitching, closing, and negotiating.
  • Build hiring processes such as scorecards, interview loops, work trials, and candidate experience standards.
  • Design and manage performance reviews, goal-setting, and feedback cycles.
  • Establish and maintain HR policies, compensation bands, leave processes, payroll, and labor-law compliance.
  • Own onboarding, employee engagement, retention, and attrition analysis.
  • Handle employee conflicts, underperformance, exits, and other sensitive conversations.
  • Evaluate existing people processes and build new systems where needed.

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of experience across talent acquisition and HR.
  • Experience as an early people hire or in building people operations at a fast-scaling startup.
  • Hands-on experience recruiting and closing senior candidates, beyond managing agencies.
  • Strong judgment in evaluating candidates and hiring decisions.
  • Builder mindset with the ability to create, improve, and simplify people processes.
  • Direct communication style and confidence challenging founders when appropriate.
  • Working knowledge of Indian labor law and payroll fundamentals.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a Monday–Saturday work schedule.
  • Experience in recruiting, HR technology, or staffing is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Airtable, Slack, Notion, HRMS tools, and process automation is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full ownership of the people function at a profitable, venture-backed startup.
  • Direct partnership with the founders on hiring and people decisions.
  • Access to Weekday’s white-collar talent database and outbound recruiting tools.
  • Opportunity to shape the culture and build the team as the company scales.
  • Remote and/or Bangalore work location.

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