Description: This job role is onsite Noida or Jaipur Only.

About Aelum:

Aelum Consulting is a fast-growing, founder-led ServiceNow transformation partner, building high-impact digital, advisory, and platform solutions for global enterprises.

We are entering our next growth phase, with aggressive plans across India, UK, GCC, and North America.

We are looking for a Director Human Resources who can build, scale, and institutionalize Aelums people agenda not just run HR operations.

Role Purpose:

This is a strategic leadership role responsible for shaping Aelums people strategy as a growth engine.

You will:

- Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO & leadership team.

- Build scalable HR systems for a high-performance consulting organization.

- Balance culture, speed, governance, and retention.

- Create leadership depth across sales, delivery, and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

People Strategy & Org Design:

- Design workforce planning aligned to revenue, practices, geographies.

- Define org structures for Sales, Delivery, Presales, Practices.

- Drive succession planning for leadership roles.

Leadership Hiring & Talent Philosophy:

- Own hiring strategy for senior & critical roles (Sales Directors, Practice Heads, Delivery Leaders).

- Partner closely with founders on fitment, psychology, commitment.

- Build strong post-offer engagement & dropout prevention frameworks.

Performance, Rewards & ESOP:

Design and institutionalize:

- KRA / KPI / OKR frameworks.

- Variable pay & OTE models.

- ESOP philosophy & long-term incentives.

- Ensure performance differentiation is real, fair, and data-driven.

Culture, Governance & Compliance:

- Build Aelums culture code, leadership principles, and values.

- Ensure HR governance across India, UK, GCC.

- Handle sensitive employee relations & ethics matters.

HR Organization Build-out:

Build and mentor:

- GM HR Operations.

- HR Business Partners (Sales, Delivery).

- Talent Acquisition leadership.

- Shift HR from dependency-driven to system-driven.

"I am best to define Aelum culture" must be responded in the screening question -1.

This will let us know that you have read the job description.

Numeric response 9.

What Were Looking For:

Must-Have:

- 6 to 10+ years in HR leadership roles.

- Experience in IT Services / Consulting / SaaS / Digital firms.

- Proven track record of scaling organizations (200 700+).

- Strong exposure to: Leadership hiring, Performance & compensation design; Founder / board-level interaction.

- High maturity in people psychology & conflict handling.

Good-to-Have:

- Experience with global entities (UK / GCC / US).

- Exposure to ESOPs, long-term incentives.

- Consulting / product ecosystem experience (ServiceNow, Salesforce, SaaS).

What This Role Is NOT:

- Not a pure HR operations role.

- Not an HRBP-only role.

- Not a compliance-only or payroll-centric role.

- This is a builder + strategist role.

Why Join Aelum:

- Direct access to founders & strategic decision-making.

- Opportunity to build HR from first principles.

- High ownership, high trust, high impact.

- Shape the culture of a fast-growing global firm.