HR Business Partner - Quick Commerce Startup

Location : Bengaluru

Role Type : High-Ownership Individual Contributor

About Our Client :

Our client is a venture-backed, new-age consumer technology start-up operating at the intersection of quick commerce and omnichannel retail, focused on delivering curated, premium everyday essentials with speed, trust, and consistency.

This is an early-stage, high-growth environment where the HRBP will play a critical role in shaping the people agenda alongside business scale-up.

Role Overview :

This is a high-impact, business-facing HRBP role designed for someone who thrives in 01 environments, enjoys working closely with founders and leadership, and can drive people strategy while staying hands-on with execution.

The role goes beyond traditional HRBP mandates and requires strong business acumen, agility, and the ability to operate in ambiguity.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Business Partnering :

- Partner closely with founders, CXOs, and business leaders to drive the people agenda aligned to business priorities

- Translate business strategy into org design, hiring plans, and capability building initiatives

- Act as a trusted advisor, influencing leadership on org effectiveness, structure, and team dynamics

2. Org Building & Talent Strategy :

- Drive workforce planning and org structuring for a fast-scaling business

- Identify capability gaps and build targeted talent interventions

- Support leadership hiring decisions with market insights and talent intelligence

3. Performance & Culture :

- Build and institutionalize performance management frameworks in a 01 setup

- Drive a high-performance, ownership-driven culture aligned to startup DNA

- Partner with leaders to manage performance interventions and talent reviews

4. Employee Experience & Engagement :

- Design and drive employee lifecycle processes : onboarding, engagement, retention

- Act as the first point of escalation for employee issues, driving resolution with speed and fairness

- Build strong listening mechanisms to capture org pulse and act on feedback

5. HR Build (0-1) :

- Set up foundational HR processes across :

1. Policies & governance

2. HR operations

3. Org structures and role clarity

- Work on culture-building initiatives and employer brand shaping

- Drive cross-functional people projects as the organization scales

6. Problem Solving & Flexibility :

- Act as a fungible operator, stepping into any People or business challenge as needed

- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a lean setup

Ideal Candidate Profile :

- 5-10 years of HRBP / Generalist experience, preferably in startup or high-growth environments

- Strong exposure to business partnering, org design, and performance management

- Proven ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-paced 01 setups

- Strong stakeholder management, especially with senior leadership

- High ownership mindset with execution bias and problem-solving ability

- Comfortable building from scratch and scaling processes over time

Why This Role :

- Opportunity to shape the people function from the ground up

- High visibility role working directly with founders and leadership team

- Exposure to end-to-end HR + org building in a rocketship environment

- Real impact on culture, structure, and business outcomes