About the Company

Nextyn is a Human Led, AI Powered expert network and primary research firm headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, Jakarta and Singapore. We serve private equity funds, corporates and consulting firms across North America, Europe and the GCC.

We operate four business lines: Expert Network, Research and Consulting, Marquee Global and Transcript IQ, supported by our proprietary platforms Nextyn IQ and Transcript IQ. As we scale into recent markets and new AI led products, our people engine has to scale faster than the business.

About the Role The Head of People and Strategy will own how Nextyn hires, measures, develops and retains talent, from frontline analysts to the leadership team. This is a builder role for someone who sets a high bar, moves fast and holds people, including senior leaders, accountable to it.

Key responsibilities The role spans six areas. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following.

Talent acquisition

- Lead and scale the Talent Acquisition team, setting weekly hiring targets, funnel metrics and recruiter productivity benchmarks.
- Build a predictable hiring engine for analyst, research, sales and client service roles across all four business lines.
- Own sourcing strategy across campuses, referrals, job platforms and direct headhunting, with a strong Tier 1 campus pipeline.
- Design structured interviews, assessments and case exercises that raise the quality of every hire.
- Track and cut time to hire, cost per hire, offer acceptance and early attrition.

Leadership hiring

- Personally run searches for AVP, VP, Director and CXO level roles, including new market and new product leaders.
- Map talent in competing expert networks, consulting firms and research houses and build a standing bench of leadership candidates.
- Manage executive search partners and hold them to timelines and quality.




- Own leadership onboarding so senior hires are productive within 90 days.

Performance management across the company

- Design and run a rigorous performance system: goal setting, quarterly reviews, calibration and annual appraisals.
- Tie individual goals to revenue, delivery and quality metrics for each business line.
- Build clear career ladders and promotion criteria for every function.
- Identify top performers early for fast tracking, and act decisively on sustained underperformance through improvement plans and exits.
- Own compensation benchmarking, incentive design and bonus frameworks with the CEO.

Leadership performance management

- Set and track measurable scorecards for every member of the leadership team.
- Run quarterly leadership reviews with the CEO and give senior leaders direct, candid feedback.
- Lead 360 degree feedback, succession planning and readiness assessments for critical roles.
- Partner with leaders on team structure, span of control and organisation design.

Employee engagement and culture

- Own the annual engagement calendar: town halls, offsites, rewards and recognition, festivals and team events across all offices.
- Run regular engagement and pulse surveys and act on the findings
- Drive internal leadership programmes such as the Emerging Leaders Group.
- Build a culture of ownership, speed and meritocracy, and reduce regretted attrition.

People strategy and operations

- Build the annual workforce plan and hiring budget in line with business growth and expansion plans,



including the US and new AI led businesses.
- Advise the CEO on organisation design, new market entry structures and key strategic initiatives.
- Implement and run HR systems, people analytics dashboards and monthly reporting to the CEO.
- Ensure policies and compliance are sound across India, Indonesia, Singapore and the US.

Qualifications

- MBA or postgraduate degree in HR, Strategy or General Management from a Tier 1 institution (IIMs, XLRI, ISB, TISS, FMS or a leading global school)

Required Skills

Who we are looking for

- 10 years or more in HR, talent or people strategy, with at least 4 years leading a team.
- Proven record of high volume hiring and senior leadership hiring in a fast growing business.
- Has designed and run a performance management system end to end, including calibration and difficult exits.
- Experience in consulting, research, professional services or high growth startups.

Good to have

- Experience hiring across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East or the US.
- Hands on with HR technology, applicant tracking systems and people analytics

What we offer

- A seat at the leadership table, reporting directly to the Founder and CEO.
- The mandate to build the people function of a fast scaling, global, AI powered research business.
- Exposure to international expansion across Southeast Asia, the GCC and the US.
- Competitive compensation with a performance linked bonus

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nextyn is committed to building a culture of ownership, speed and meritocracy. All hiring, performance management and promotion decisions are based on business needs, role requirements and individual merit. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, age, disability or any other protected status.

📌 Head of Human Resources (People Strategy) (Mumbai)
🏢 Nextyn
📍 Mumbai