About The Role

This role sits at the intersection of Talent Strategy, People Operations, Organisational Development, and Culture. The primary mandate is to ensure that we have the right talent in the right roles, identify capability gaps early, build strategies to strengthen our talent pool, and create an setting where people can perform, grow, and contribute meaningfully.

You will work closely with leadership to translate business priorities into people strategies, talent interventions, capability-building initiatives, and organisational systems.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Density & Workforce Strategy
Build and continuously improve the organisation's talent density strategy — ensuring teams have the right quality, capability, and mix of talent.
Partner with leadership to understand current and future business requirements and translate them into workforce plans.
Identify critical talent and capability gaps across functions and build strategies to address them.
Identify key roles and talent dependencies and support succession planning and internal mobility.




Build talent pools and external talent networks for critical and specialised capabilities.
Building a Culturally Fluent Talent Ecosystem
Develop a talent ecosystem that reflects the organisation's cultural point of view, business context, and long-term capability needs.
Define what the organisation needs from its talent beyond functional skills — including cultural understanding, adaptability, ownership, collaboration, and creative/business thinking.
Build frameworks for assessing cultural fit, cultural fluency, capability, and potential during hiring and development.
Develop relationships with relevant talent communities, freelancers, consultants, specialists, and external creative/professional networks.
Identify emerging talent, unconventional talent pools, and new ways of accessing specialised capabilities.
Talent Acquisition & Hiring Strategy
Develop hiring strategies aligned with business growth, or

📌 People & Culture – Talent Strategist & Operations (Mumbai)
🏢 Hotcult India
📍 Mumbai