About the role
This is a builder's role. You'll own the entire HR charter for Inamo, excluding talent acquisition, designing systems, frameworks, and processes from zero to one, while acting as a strategic partner to the co-founder on people decisions. Someone comfortable with ambiguity, who can build structure without over-engineering it for a startup's pace, equal parts strategic thinker and hands-on operator, reporting directly into the co-founder.
The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
HR Strategy and Business Partnering:
- Act as strategic advisor to the co-founder on org design, workforce planning, and people strategy.
- Translate business goals into HR priorities and roadmaps.
Policy and Process Design:
- Build HR policies, SOPs, and employee handbook from scratch.
- Design compensation structures, performance management systems, and career frameworks.
Compliance and Statutory:
- Ensure compliance with labour laws (Shops & Establishments, PF, ESIC, POSH, gratuity, etc. )
- Manage statutory audits, registrations, and documentation.
- Set up POSH committee and grievance redressal mechanisms.
Employee Engagement and Culture:
- Design and drive engagement calendars, R& R programs, and culture-building initiatives.
- Build feedback mechanisms (pulse surveys, skip-levels, exit interviews) and act on insights.
- Champion Inamo's culture as the company scales.
HR Operations:
- Oversee onboarding/offboarding, HRMS implementation, payroll coordination, and employee lifecycle management.
- Build MIS/dashboards for HR metrics (attrition, headcount, engagement scores).
- Design L& D frameworks, competency mapping, and succession planning.
- Drive performance appraisal cycles end-to-end.
Requirements:
- 8-12 years in HR/HRBP roles, with at least 3-4 years in a leadership capacity.
- Prior experience in e-commerce, quick-commerce, or logistics (high-velocity, operations-heavy environments).
- Proven track record of building HR functions from scratch at a startup or during rapid scale-up.
- Strong grasp of Indian labour law and statutory compliance.
- Experience with HRMS/HCM tools (SAP SuccessFactors, Darwinbox, Keka, etc. )
- Excellent stakeholder management, with comfort operating as a direct report to a founder.
- MBA/PGDM in HR preferred.