Amber - Lead - People & Culture

About Amberstudent :

- Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing). Amber helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non- standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process.

- We are the leading student housing platform globally, with 1M student housing units listed in 6 countries and across 80 cities. We are growing rapidly and targeting $300M in annual gross bookings value by 2022

- If you are passionate of leading HR team in fast growth startup then - Join us in building the future of student housing!

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead & execute best-in-class new hire onboarding program by partnering with business leaders and HR partners to deliver a positive and effective new hire experience.

- Counsel Business Leaders regarding company policies, procedures and workplace issues. Provide coaching and resolution regarding all employee relations issues.

- Organize skip level meetings and empathetically address employee grievances.

- Works closely with Business Leaders on internal performance evaluation programs like Capability Development Program , Performance improvement plan , one on one performance discussions , FGD's.

- Design ,Plan, co-ordinate & execute Monthly , Quarterly & Annual engagement program's by utilizing the budget's effectively , Build a culture of caring, sharing and celebrating with hand-holding and sailing to go beyond target.

- Take initiatives and plan HR interventions to strategize retention, control attrition, effective manpower utilization through rewards recognition, succession planning and benchmarking.

- Maintain effective channels of information in-flow to feel what is on employee nerve and proactively take corrective preventive actions and address employee grievances with high sense of urgency.

- Establish best implementable HR practices based on facts and figures for employee success.

- Introduce effective organization culture linked Retention Programs.

- Coach and mentor employees and promote a culture of knowledge sharing.

Hard Skills :

- Strong acumen with ability to influence employees and managers at all levels and hands-on expertise in implementing multiple employee engagement initiatives

- People & Culture Manager simultaneously.

- Hands-on with creating promotional material for employer branding internal external communication.

- Ability to create the confidence among employees to reach you for their grievance.

- Ability to access and identify the root cause for grievance and enable them to overcome the grievance and create a Happy Culture.

- Strong experience of understanding the requirements of employees in Product Software Industry.

- Good communication (Verbal Written) and interpersonal skills.

An eye for detail, results-driven and takes the accountability to meet expectations.

Soft Skills :

- At least three (3) years as an HR Business Partner/Engagement Partner in a startup and 4-8 years of overall HR or related work experience.

- Advanced knowledge and skills in multiple HR functions including: Performance & management , Compensation & benefits, employee relations, and talent management.

- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.

- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking acumen with an ability to make timely, effective, ethics-based decisions.

- Exceptional influencing, communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Must be humble, results-oriented, collaborative, and have a sense of humor and a strong EQ.

What Amber gives you :

- Fast-paced growth (can skip intermediate levels)

- Total freedom and authority (everything under you, just get the job done!)

- Amazing work culture (trust us when we are saying this!)

- Great compensation (as per industry standards)