Ridhira Group - Chief Human Resources Officer

Job Title: Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)

Location: Hyderabad, India (with global travel flexibility)

Function: Executive Leadership Team

Verticals: Ridhira Zen (Wellness Real Estate), Ridhira Retreat (Hospitality), Ode Spa (Wellness Services), Future Ventures (Wellness AI, Wellness Membership, Longevity Clinics)

Mission: Build the most culturally aligned, spiritually aware, performance-obsessed, and globally scalable wellness company workforce of the next decade.

About Ridhira Group:

Ridhira Group is on a mission to reimagine living, healing, and thriving.

Were building a fully integrated wellness ecosystem across real estate, hospitality, spa services, and wellness technology.

With presence across 36+ outlets and global aspirations, were creating a civilization, not just a company.

As we scale, our soul must scale with us.

This is where you come in.

Role Overview:

As CHRO, you will be the spiritual and strategic architect of our people.

You will lead the design of a workplace culture that attracts wellness warriors, retains intrapreneurs, and builds tribal belonging while scaling operations across geographies and verticals.

This is not an HR role.

It is a co-founders chair in the domain of People, Purpose & Performance.

Key Responsibilities:

ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN & SCALE:

- Architect org structures across verticals real estate, hospitality, spa, memberships ensuring synergy and scalability.

- Build a strong leadership pipeline and create internal accelerators (e.g. Spa Manager Cluster Head GM).

- Lead succession planning, especially at CXO level.

CULTURE DESIGN & WELLNESS ALIGNMENT:

- Design rituals, symbols, and onboarding systems that embed Ridhiras 8 Dimensions of Wellness into daily life.

- Launch and own The Ridhira Way our internal cultural OS.

- Institutionalize Wellness at Work: therapy access, wellness KPIs, work-life ecosystems.

TALENT STRATEGY & PERFORMANCE:

- Define the hiring archetypes (e.g. mission-aligned wellness professionals, wellness-first engineers, wellness sales strategists).

- Build high-bar recruiting systems: founder shadow hiring, cultural screening, wellness quotient assessments.

- Implement agile performance frameworks combining OKRs + Wellness Score + Business Outcomes.

SYSTEMS, TECH & HR OPS:

- Deploy HRIS stack across the group (Zoho People, Darwinbox, or global tools).

- Lead automation of onboarding, L&D, compensation intelligence, and employee experience.

- Run lean, automated, insight-rich HR operations with a people-first experience.

EMPLOYER BRAND & EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS:

- Build Ridhiras Employer Brand as Indias No.1 Wellness Workplace.

- Lead partnerships with global wellness institutes (e.g., ISB, Isha Foundation, wellness universities) for L&D and onboarding.

- Co-own investor narratives around People Capital and Culture as Moat.

INCLUSION & GLOBALITY:

- Champion diversity across gender, generation, city-rural, and backgrounds.

- Support overseas hiring and relocation for global wellness projects (e.g., Bali, UAE, Europe).

Success Metrics (12 to 24 Months):

- Talent-to-performance mapping across 100% of verticals.

- 95%+ onboarding satisfaction score.

- 85%+ retention in key business-impact roles.

- Launch of Ridhira Wellness Leadership Academy (flagship L&D system).

- Clear founder-to-frontline transmission blueprint.

- 100% role clarity and OKR adoption in every team.

- CHRO becomes top 3 trusted advisors to the Founder.

Ideal Profile:

- 12+ years of progressive HR leadership experience across high-growth companies (wellness, hospitality, real estate, lifestyle tech, or design-driven brands).

- Proven experience scaling orgs from 100 to 1,000+ across geographies.

- Deeply mission-aligned with wellness, transformation, or conscious capitalism.

- Has built or scaled a cultural system, not just run HR operations.

- Equal fluency in AI/HR Tech and tribal human intuition.

- Prior exposure to global teams or cross-cultural management.

Bonus If You Have:

- Coaching certifications, somatic leadership, psychology background.

- Experience in building L&D universities, leadership accelerators, or founder shadow programs.

- Been part of organizations like Airbnb, Taj Group, Cult.fit, Amway, Mindvalley, or Four Seasons.

Ridhira Is Not for Everyone

Were not a corporate.

Were not a startup.

Were a civilization in progress.

We move fast, meditate often, and dream bigger than the world allows.

If you want to be a legend-builder, tribe-maker, and founder-whisperer this may be your last job ever.