HR Generalist/HR Business Partner - Talent Acquisition - Consumer/eCommerce Startup

Description:

Confidential Search: HR Generalist - Talent Acquisition + HR Business Partner

Experience: 6 to 10 years

Role Split: 50% Talent Acquisition | 50% HR Business Partnering

Industry Fit: Consumer Brand, Consumer Tech, High-Growth Ecommerce

About the Company:

- We are partnering with a fast-growing, design-led consumer tech brand backed by strong investor conviction.

- The company is in an early-to-growth stage, building a next gen lifestyle and commerce ecosystem for new age consumers.

- The environment resembles Myntra, Nykaa, high-growth D2C brands, and product-driven consumer-tech companies dynamic, fast-paced, and execution-heavy.

Role Overview:

This is a hybrid HR role blending:

- Hands-on recruitment across Product, Tech, Sales, and Business functions, and

- Strategic HRBP responsibilities for a rapidly scaling organization.

- We are looking for a softspoken, structured, high-ownership HR professional who thrives in early-stage environments and can build systems that scale. The ideal candidate avoids heavy corporate HR style and prefers agile, 01 problemsolving.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Talent Acquisition (50%):

- Lead end-to-end hiring across Product, Technology, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales.

- Build strong pipelines for consumer-tech and product hiring, including niche tech and digital commerce roles.

2. HR Business Partnering (50%):

Performance Management:

- Manage annual and mid-year performance cycles.

- Support goal setting, OKR alignment, and calibration with founders and function heads.

- Enable measurable, agile performance practices suited for early-stage teams.

Attrition & Workforce Planning:

- Build and manage dashboards for 606090 day performance and ramp-up success.

- Analyze sales attrition, early exits, and productivity trends.

- Create actionable interventionsrole redesign, capability building, hiring tweaks, manager coaching.

Culture & Engagement:

- Shape a high-growth, consumer-brand-first culture.

- Establish communication rituals, pulse mechanisms, and founder connects.

- Convert insights into structured organizational actions.

People Operations:

- Streamline onboarding across tech, product, and sales teams.

- Build lightweight policies suited for a startup environment.

- Drive HR operations including employee lifecycle, grievance handling, and documentation.

Candidate Requirements:

Experience:

- 6 to 10 years across TA + HRBP in consumer-tech, ecommerce, D2C, or fast-scaling product-led environments.

- Strong experience in technical hiring (Engineering, Product, Design).

- Exposure to building teams in rapidly scaling, high-velocity environments.

- Eg: Minimalist, SUGAR Cosmetics, Mamaearth, Plum Goodness, Agilitas, Rebel Foods, or D2C/high-growth