This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 1200000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 12 - 15 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years

Location: Pune
JobType: full time

As the first Org Development champion, this role involves building conditions for consistent, meaningful growth for freshers, first-time managers, and teams. The individual will work directly with leadership across the organization to understand people's needs and build effective systems. The core focus is on intentionally scaling a 300-person organization.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Conduct ongoing skill gap assessments at individual, team, and org level and make the insights actionable
- Work with team leads to build individual development plans rooted in the KRA/KPI framework
- Create a framework to identify and flag people inconsistencies (performance, behaviour, culture) before they escalate
- Design cross-team learning mechanisms to reduce skill inequality driven by client/team exposure
- Partner with Org leadership proactively on org design questions as we scale
- Design and run development programmes for first-time managers, covering feedback, coaching, and people leadership basics
- Work with the Process Excellence team to bring in AI-led dashboarding, automation and issue-flagging into HR

Qualifications

- 5 years of overall HR experience with at least 3 years in core OD/L&D;/Exec Dev roles,



ideally in a fast-growing services, analytics firm, or consulting environment
- Must have led OD/L&D; efforts through a significant organisational scaling journey - taking a company from roughly 50–100 people to 500–1,000+ people
- Demonstrated ability to build frameworks that are simple enough to be used and robust enough to be useful (no over-engineering or oversimplification)
- Strong instincts with people, ability to read a room, earn trust quickly, and have difficult conversations without losing the relationship

Required Skills

Org Development | L&D; | Executive Development | Skill Assessment | IDP | KRA/KPI | Performance Management | Org Design | Leadership Development | AI in HR | Automation | Stakeholder Management | Communication | Framework Building | Ambiguity Tolerance

Benefits & Perks

- Opportunity to work closely with the leadership team in a trend-setting organization
- Opportunity to grow with the company as part of its early core team
- Work amongst some of the most free thinkers and driven professionals with gumption to think differently, act decisively and operate very professionally.

Must-have skills

Organizational Development, Learning and Development, Organizational Scaling

Good-to-have skills

HR Analytics, Process Excellence, Training & Development

📌 Learning & Development Manager (Pune)
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