The Role

PopVax is scaling quickly across science, clinical, regulatory, and operations and across entities in India, the UK, and Australia. That pace only works if we hire well and keep the team healthy while we do it, which is exactly what this role owns. This is a hands-on HR manager position for someone who wants to build the function rather than just administer it: running recruitment end to end, standing up the systems and policies a growing company needs, and partnering with team leads across a genuinely multidisciplinary organisation. The role works closely with leaders across every function.

The Work

Most of this job is upkeep the load-bearing work of keeping the place running so everyone else can get on with theirs. Its for someone who takes real satisfaction in being the person a company quietly depends on: the systems that hold, the records that are right, the compliance that's handled, and the hundred small things that would break if no one owned them. Get it right and the whole place moves faster without ever quite knowing why. The role spans the full employee lifecycle along with the HR operations, policy making, and communications that keeps a fast-growing team running.

Who Thrives Here

Someone who likes building systems and is comfortable both setting up the structure and doing the hands-on work day to day. This is a company that moves fast, so the person who does well here is organised, self-directed, and able to hold several threads at once without dropping any.





Good judgment and discretion matter a lot of this work touches sensitive information and difficult conversations, and people need to trust that HR handles both well. Just as important is a real interest in people: what makes a team work, what makes someone want to join and stay, and how to keep a culture healthy while it grows.

Required Qualifications

- 0 6 years of progressive HR experience across talent acquisition, HR operations, employee engagement, LD, and business partnering.

- Strong grounding in the employee lifecycle and HR best practices.

- Working knowledge of Indian labour laws and statutory compliance.

- Solid stakeholder management, communication, and interpersonal skills.

- High integrity and comfort handling confidential information.

- An analytical approach, using metrics to inform decisions.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving setting.

- Proficiency with Google Workspace and HRMS platforms.

Nice to have

- Experience in startups, incubators, technology, healthcare, or life-sciences environments.

- Hands-on payroll coordination and advantages administration.

- Experience with performance management systems.

- HR analytics and dashboard reporting.

- Familiarity with Keka or a similar HRMS.

- Experience supporting organisational change and transformation.

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📌 Manager - HR & Administration (Hyderabad)
🏢 PopVax
📍 Hyderabad