People Lead – Talent Acquisition, HR

• Own both talent acquisition and HR for Weekday
• Plan hiring with the founders, including roles, sequencing, and hiring bar
• Run senior and hard-to-fill searches, including sourcing, pitching, closing, and negotiating
• Build hiring processes including scorecards, interview loops, work trials, and candidate experience
• Design and run performance reviews, goal-setting, and feedback cycles
• Develop policies, compensation bands, leave, payroll, and labour-law compliance processes
• Own onboarding, engagement, and retention
• Analyze attrition data
• Handle conflicts, underperformance, and exits
• Deliver work well and on time while working directly with the founders

• 2–5 years across talent acquisition and HR
• Experience as the first or second people hire, or building people operations at a fast-scaling startup
• Hands-on recruiting experience and personally closing senior hires
• Strong judgment on people
• Ability to build processes from scratch and remove ineffective processes
• Direct communication and ability to challenge founders when appropriate
• Knowledge of Indian labour law and payroll basics
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a Monday–Saturday pace
• Experience at a recruiting, HR-tech, or staffing company (nice to have)
• Comfort with Airtable, Slack, Notion, or an HRMS, and automating repetitive work (nice to have)

• Full ownership of people function at a profitable, venture-backed startup
• Direct partnership with the founders on every hiring and people decision
• Access to India's largest white-collar talent database and outbound tools for hiring
• Front-row seat to how a company scales and chance to build the team