JOB DESCRIPTION

HR Manager

Talent, People Operations & Organization Building

Location

Attibele, Sarjapura Road, Bengaluru

Experience

4-5 years

Employment Type

Full-time, permanent (monthly salaried)

CTC

(based on experience and capability)

Notice Period

Immediate to 30 days preferred

Reporting To

Founder & CEO

Group Companies

NUVEXA Biotech Pvt. Ltd. • One World AI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. • Futura Media & Marketing Pvt. Ltd. • Dr. Maivyns Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.

The Role in One Line

Build and lead HR for a quick-growing, AI-first group. Hire great people, lead a young and energetic team as one of them, and make HR a function that drives revenue and profit, not just cost.

Who We Are

NUVEXA is a founder-led, bootstrapped and profitable group of four companies, based in Bengaluru with manufacturing in Hosur. We work in three areas:

- Health & consumer brands: RUGD MEN, SuperBeing Nutrition, Super Titans, Super Envi and AAurveda: nutraceuticals, pharma, skincare and wellness, sold D2C, online and on marketplaces.
- Technology: Generative AI, Agentic AI, AI SaaS and automation.
- Marketing: AI and performance marketing, creative and content.

We also deliver large-scale AI, technology, marketing and D2C solutions to clients in India, the USA, the UAE and other global markets. We run lean, use AI everywhere, and care about results: low customer acquisition cost, profitable growth, repeat customers and long-term clients.

Why This Role Is Different

- You build, not maintain. You will set up HR systems, policies and teams from scratch, across four companies.
- You lead a young team. Most of our people are Gen Z and Millennials. You will be part of the team, not behind an HR desk.
- You use AI every day. AI resume search, screening, onboarding and reporting are part of how we work.
- You drive the business. HR here is measured on revenue, profit and output, and you will help create new revenue lines.
- You work directly with the founder. Fast decisions, real ownership, and visible impact.

What You Will Do

1. Hire the Right People, Fast and at Low Cost

- Hire across very different roles: R&D;, regulatory, pharma, nutraceuticals, skincare, D2C, AI/tech, marketing, creative, finance, supply chain and sales.
- Run AI-powered resume search and screening (Naukri Resdex, LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS tools), and build our own searchable talent database.
- Keep cost-per-hire low through referrals, campus, communities and direct sourcing. Use agencies only for hard roles.
- Run a fast, fair hiring process with practical tasks, quick feedback and honest offers. AI helps, but people make every hiring decision.
- Build our employer brand on LinkedIn, Instagram, campuses and communities, using real employee stories.

2. Lead, Motivate and Keep a Young Team

- Be approachable and visible. Mingle with the team, know every person, and understand what drives them.
- Organise the team into clear roles, squads and routines, with weekly goals and simple tracking.
- Keep energy high: quick recognition, team rituals, hackathons, launch celebrations and learning sessions.
- Hold everyone to clear targets, quality and deadlines. Friendly, but always accountable.
- Show every person a growth path, run regular one-on-ones and stay interviews,



and act before good people leave.
- Coach managers to give feedback, delegate and retain their people.

3. Run Payroll, Performance and Rewards

- Build our core team as full-time employees on monthly salary, with an appointment letter for everyone.
- Run accurate, on-time monthly payroll with PF, ESI, PT and TDS, compliant with Indias recent Labour Codes.
- Set up goals, monthly check-ins, probation reviews and appraisals.
- Design salary bands and fixed + variable pay that rewards results, plus bonuses and profit-sharing for top performers.
- Handle underperformance fairly: coaching first, then improvement plans where needed.

4. Staff Our Brands and Client Projects

- Plan who works on which brand and client project, and keep utilisation and bench visible.
- Build teams quickly for large client projects in India, the USA and globally.
- Keep key people on client accounts, with backups and handovers, so we never lose a client because we lost a person.
- Train client-facing teams in communication, data security and working across time zones.
- Support hiring abroad through Employer of Record partners and our Dubai entity.

5. Make HR Drive Revenue and Profit

- Help bill our experts to external clients and turn bench time into revenue.
- With the founder, build new HR and talent services for clients: AI recruitment, leadership hiring, AI/tech staff augmentation, hire-train-deploy programmes and corporate AI training.
- Claim government hiring incentives with Finance, such as PM-VBRY, the Section 80JJAA deduction, apprenticeship support and state schemes.
- Run employee programmes that bring growth: customer and client referrals, a creator and affiliate programme for our brands, and an intrapreneurship programme for recent ideas.
- Cut cost into profit through AI, automation and shared services across the group.
- Build a monthly people P&L; that links people cost to output, revenue and profit.

6. Keep Us Compliant and Well-Run

- Keep all four companies compliant: Labour Codes, PF, ESI, gratuity, POSH, maternity benefit and the DPDP Act.
- Write the employee handbook, HR policies and code of conduct, and run onboarding with NDA and IP agreements from day one.
- Maintain audit-ready training records for our pharma and nutraceutical teams.
- Run grievance, disciplinary and exit processes fairly and with discretion.
- Send the founder a clear monthly HR report: hiring, attrition, cost, productivity, compliance and risks.

Your First 90 Days

- By day 30: audit records and compliance, close open roles, and set up the HRMS, AI resume search and our candidate database.
- By day 60: launch the handbook, core policies, NDA/IP agreements, the POSH committee, org charts, role scorecards and the payroll process.
- By day 90: launch the performance cycle, salary bands and monthly HR report; present the 12-month workforce plan,



the people P&L; and a plan for HR services revenue.

How We Will Measure Success

- Hiring: time-to-hire, quality-of-hire, offer-to-joining ratio and cost-per-hire.
- People: retention of top performers, first-year attrition, engagement and team productivity.
- Business: revenue and profit per employee, payroll as % of revenue, revenue from billable talent and HR services, and incentives claimed.
- Clients: time to staff projects, key-person retention and client satisfaction.
- Compliance: salaries always on time, zero statutory defaults, and 100% signed agreements.

What You Bring

Must have

- 4–5 years in HR, with hands-on experience in hiring, HR operations, payroll and performance management.
- An MBA/PGDM in HR or equivalent.
- Proven hiring for technical and non-technical roles, ideally across different domains.
- Experience using AI tools for sourcing and screening, and an HRMS (e.g., Zoho People, Keka, greytHR, Darwinbox).
- Working knowledge of the Labour Codes, payroll and statutory compliance.
- A record of hiring, engaging and retaining Gen Z and Millennial employees, with numbers to show for it.
- Strong communication in English, and comfort working directly with founders.

Good to have

- Early-stage startup experience.
- HR experience in pharma, nutraceuticals, FMCG or manufacturing.
- Experience staffing client-delivery teams (IT, consulting or agency), especially for US or global clients.
- Experience with a revenue-generating HR line (recruitment, RPO, staffing or training) or with claiming government hiring incentives.
- Kannada, Hindi or Tamil.

You Will Fit In If You Are

- An owner: you finish what you start without being chased.
- One of the team: energetic and approachable, but you still hold everyone to high standards.
- Commercially sharp: you understand cost, revenue and profit, and can show how people decisions make money.
- A systems builder: you turn one-off fixes into simple processes.
- Fast-learning: you can switch between pharma, AI and creative hiring in a day.
- Discreet: you handle confidential matters with integrity.

What We Offer

- A leadership role building HR for a four-company group from the ground up.
- Direct work with the founder, with real ownership and fast decisions.
- Fast-track growth for strong performers, with performance bonuses and long-term incentives.
- Continuous learning, including AI upskilling and certifications.
- Group health insurance and statutory benefits.
- A young, energetic team, and the chance to shape its culture.

Our Hiring Process

- Application review: we read every application and reply quickly.
- Screening call (30 minutes): your experience and what you are looking for.
- Practical task: a short, real HR case from our business.
- Founder interview: your task, your approach, and how you lead people.
- Reference and background checks, then the offer.

We judge candidates on evidence, not claims: roles closed, attrition reduced, systems built, costs saved and teams grown.

How to Apply

Apply on Naukri, or email your CV to [email protected] with the subject line “HR Manager”. Include 2–3 HR results you have delivered, with numbers.

We are an equal-opportunity employer.

📌 Human Resource Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Nuvexa Biotech
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