HR & Operations Manager

ZocialOne | Hyderabad (Hybrid) | 3+ Years | Full-time

About ZocialOne

ZocialOne is an AI-powered growth marketing platform. One platform to create, post, schedule, reply and analyse across seven social platforms: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads and Google Business Profile.

At the core is Zoe, an autonomous AI marketing agent that runs the complete social media marketing lifecycle for businesses. Research, strategy, content creation, scheduling, publishing, inbox management, analytics and continuous optimisation. Zoe serves real enterprise clients in production today.

Over 100,000 businesses use our app. We are funded and we are growing quickly.

Why this role exists

Right now the founders run HR. Payroll, hiring, onboarding, expenses, insurance, all of it.

That works for now, but it does not scale, and it means nobody here has people as their actual job.

There is no existing system for you to inherit. You would be building the one this company runs on for the next five years.

What you will own

Payroll

Our CA sends the numbers. You run the cycle, make the transfers, and confirm to every employee without being asked.

One rule we do not bend: salaries land before the month ends. Not on the 1st, not "still processing", not "the bank was slow". Our team works hard and this is the one thing we will never be casual about.

Compliance and perks

PF, PT, TDS coordination with our CA, Form 16, and the health insurance relationship including additions and removals as people join and leave. The documentation already exists. Keeping it accurate is yours.

Expenses and vendors

More than 30 active vendors and software subscriptions, and a substantial monthly outflow. You log it daily, consolidate at month end, watch renewal dates, and flag a price increase before it hits the card.

Nobody should ever have to remind you that a payment is due.

Attendance

Attendance feeds payroll.



You choose and set up the tooling so this runs itself instead of living in your inbox.

Hiring

Job descriptions, sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing. Across engineering, marketing and design.

Over the next 12 months we are building out sales, partnerships and customer success from zero, and scaling marketing. You will hire the first people into each, write the roles, and help set up how those teams run.

Screening here means judgment, not keyword matching. You should be able to say in two sentences why this candidate and not another one with the same title.

The full employee lifecycle

Offer letter through exit formalities.

Onboarding that makes someone's first day feel considered. Accounts ready, assets ready, introductions made, a proper check-in at 30 days.

Offboarding that is clean, complete and respectful. Handover, asset recovery, access revoked, final settlement, and an exit conversation you actually learn something from.

People

You are the only HR, which means you sit between the founders and every function.

You will notice someone is struggling before they tell you. You will be the person the team trusts with the thing they cannot yet say to their manager. None of that can be turned into a process, and it matters to us more than anything else on this list.

Please do not apply if

We would rather you close this now than spend your time and ours.

- You want a defined scope and someone to approve each step.
- You need to be asked twice.
- "That is the finance team's job" is a sentence you would say.
- You are uncomfortable with numbers, spreadsheets and reconciliation.
- HR to you means policies,



paperwork and birthday posts.
- You are looking for a comfortable job. This is not one. We are a startup, we move fast, and we work hard.

You will do great here if

- You have personally run a payroll cycle start to finish. Not coordinated with a payroll team. Run it.
- You are properly good with numbers. Spreadsheets, reconciliation, noticing the line that does not add up.
- You reply fast. If we write to you at 6pm on Tuesday, you do not answer on Friday.
- You have built something where nothing existed before, and you can describe exactly what you built.
- You are comfortable discussing a hiring plan with a CTO and telling a founder something they do not want to hear.
- You are three to five years in and want far more ownership than your current job will ever hand you.

About the compensation

We are not listing a number, because the number depends on you.

What we can tell you is how this company treats people who do good work. We give strong hikes for genuine talent, and we do not wait for someone to ask. One person who joined us part-time three years ago is today the highest paid person in the company.

We do not have a fixed band for this role. We have a range, and where you land in it depends on what you show us.

One more thing, and we will be blunt about it. If you can do this job well here, meaning payroll, compliance, expenses, hiring and standing up two new departments from scratch, you will be worth a great deal more on the open market in three years than you are worth today. We have watched that happen to our own people. It does not replace paying you properly. It comes on top of it.

Details

- Hyderabad, hybrid. You will need to be in the office regularly. Payroll, assets, onboarding and knowing how people actually are cannot be done fully remote.
- Full-time. Immediate joiners strongly preferred.
- Please answer the screening questions carefully. We read every one of them.

📌 Human Resources Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 zocialone
📍 Hyderabad