HR Business Partner (HRBP)

Location: Mumbai (on-site) · Reports to: Co-Founders · Team: Builds and leads the People function (HR + Talent Acquisition)

About Kytchens

At Kytchens, we're democratising access to good food by partnering with the F&B; brands customers love — and giving them the operational infrastructure to scale sustainably.

We are a multi-brand cloud kitchen platform (HyprKytchen FoodTech Pvt Ltd), and at our core we're an operations-and-systems business, not a food business. Today we run:

- 30+ kitchens across Mumbai and Pune
- 45+ brand partners on our platform, plus our own brands like Murukku
- 150+ team members across our corporate and kitchen teams

We are building the largest food services network in India. If you're excited about food and about building the people engine that powers hyper-growth, we'd love to talk.

Why this role, now

We've scaled to 30+ kitchens and 150+ people — and our next phase of growth needs more than a hiring engine, it needs a real people function. We're looking for an HR Business Partner who can own the full employee lifecycle: from the high-volume, high-speed hiring that keeps our kitchens staffed, to the performance management, employee relations, and workforce planning that keep our people function healthy as we scale. You'll be the single point of accountability for how we hire, develop, and support our people — partnering directly with founders and functional leads.

What you'll own

HR business partnering & employee relations

- Partner with founders and functional leads as their go-to HR advisor — translating business priorities into people plans across both corporate/HQ and frontline kitchen teams
- Own employee relations end-to-end: performance conversations, grievance handling, disciplinary processes, and conflict resolution — done fairly and fast




- Design and run performance management cycles — goal-setting, reviews, calibration — and coach managers on giving real feedback

Policy, compliance & workforce planning

- Own HR policy — leave, conduct, POSH, and other statutory/compliance requirements — and make sure it's followed on the ground, not just written down
- Partner with founders on org design and workforce planning: headcount forecasting, org structure, and role clarity as we scale
- Own people-side compliance and audits across our kitchen and corporate locations

Recruitment strategy & execution

- Own the full recruitment lifecycle across both worlds — intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer, and close
- Design scalable, repeatable pipelines for high-volume frontline hiring — our kitchens run on people, and frontline attrition is one of the toughest challenges in this industry
- Set up sourcing channels, referral programs, structured interviews, and a hiring workflow that managers actually follow

Employer brand & candidate/employee experience

- Make Kytchens a place great people want to join and stay — own our employer brand, careers presence, and candidate experience
- Own onboarding end-to-end so new hires land well and ramp quick, with no handoff gap between hiring and HR

Build and lead the team

- Hire, mentor, and lead a small HR + recruiting team as we grow — set the bar, the process, and the culture for how we hire and how we support our people





Measure everything

- Own the metrics that matter across both hiring and HR: time-to-fill, offer-to-join, quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire, and frontline fill rate against attrition
- Own the people-health metrics too: retention, engagement/eNPS, and attrition by cohort
- Use the data to find bottlenecks — in hiring or in the employee experience — and continuously raise the bar

You'll be great if you have

- 6–8 years spanning HR generalist/HRBP and talent acquisition work, with real ownership of both hiring and people outcomes
- Hands-on experience with high-volume/frontline hiring — ideally in food, QSR, retail, hospitality, logistics, or gig/blue-collar workforces
- A solid grounding in employee relations, performance management, and Indian labour-law/compliance basics (POSH, statutory filings, etc.)
- A track record of building or meaningfully improving HR or recruitment processes and systems
- A data-driven, first-principles mindset — you set targets, track funnels and metrics, and act on the numbers
- Strong stakeholder management across founders, functional leads, and frontline teams
- High ownership, bias for action, and comfort thriving in a fast-changing, high-growth environment

Why join us

- A rare chance to build the entire people function — HR and recruitment — from the ground up, and own it as we scale nationally
- Direct partnership with the founding team — high trust, high impact, real decision-making
- A front-row seat to one of India's fastest-growing food platforms

How to apply

If you're excited to build both the hiring engine and the people function behind one of India's fastest-growing food platforms, fill this form (https://forms.gle/LqGyMNBVWLCdL4Mc7) . This is a Mumbai-based role.

📌 Human Resources Business Partner (Mumbai)
🏢 Kytchens
📍 Mumbai