About Bold & Beyond

Bold & Beyond is a unified brand communications house headquartered in Bengaluru, with offices in Mumbai and Hyderabad. We bring PR, branding, websites, influencer marketing, video and ad films, and social media under one roof, so a brand gets one joined-up team instead of five separate agencies.

In four years, we have worked with around 400 brands, mostly in hospitality, travel and tourism, lifestyle, tech, and education. We are 60+ people today, and the team has roughly doubled in size every year since we started.

Why this role, why now

Our next phase is to grow from around 60 people to 200, across more cities, more services, and larger clients. Growing at that pace needs more than informal ways of working. It needs a thoughtful people function that grows with us.

We are hiring our first Chief People Officer to build and own that function end to end: how we hire, organise, develop, pay, engage, and keep our people. You will set the direction, build the team and systems, and be accountable for the results.

Everything we create for our clients comes from our people. How they grow, how they are supported, and how much they enjoy their work shapes everything we do. This role makes sure Bold & Beyond remains a great place to build a career as we grow.

What you'll own

You will own the complete people function across seven key areas:

- People strategy and organisation design
- Build the people plan that takes us from 60 to 200 people, and review it with the founders every quarter.
- Design the organisation for that scale: team structures, reporting lines, spans of control, and the leadership layer we will need.
- Plan headcount and people budgets with the founders and Finance, by team, office, and service line.
- Talent acquisition
- Build a hiring process that can welcome well over 100 new colleagues in the next few years, while keeping the quality of our teams high.
- Own hiring end to end across PR, digital and social, design,



video, influencer marketing, and business development.
- Set up the process: role briefs, interview loops, assessments, offer approvals, and turnaround times.
- Build our employer brand, campus partnerships, and referral programme.
- Lead senior and leadership hiring with the founders.
- Careers, performance and development
- Build a clear framework of roles and levels across every function, with defined career paths.
- Design and run performance management: goal setting, regular check-ins, reviews, and promotions.
- Build learning and development, with a strong focus on first-time managers.
- Grow a pipeline of future leaders from inside the company.
- Compensation and perks
- Set our pay philosophy, salary structures, and bands, and benchmark them against the market.
- Own perks, recognition, and rewards, and keep them competitive as we grow.
- Make sure pay decisions are consistent, fair, and clearly explained.
- Culture, engagement and retention
- Define and protect our culture and values as we grow, across every city we work in.
- Measure engagement regularly and act on what it shows.
- Understand what makes people stay and grow with us, and what leads them to move on, and act on it.
- Run onboarding so new joiners settle in and contribute quickly.
- Own internal communication on people matters.
- Employee relations, policy and compliance
- Own all people policies and the employee handbook.
- Handle employee relations, grievances, and disciplinary matters fairly and consistently.




- Keep us compliant with Indian labour law across every state we operate in, including POSH.
- HR operations, systems and people data
- Build and lead the HR team.
- Run day-to-day HR operations: onboarding, attendance and leave, payroll inputs, documentation, and exits.
- Own our HR technology and automate routine work wherever possible.
- Give the leadership team a regular view of people data: headcount, hiring, attrition, engagement, and people costs.

Who we're looking for

You must have:

- 12+ years in HR, with at least 5 years leading the people function in a services business: an agency, consultancy, media, or professional services firm.
- Scaled a company before, ideally from around 50 to 200+ people, and built the people systems that growth needed.
- Built people functions from the ground up, not only run ones that already existed.
- Hands-on experience designing role frameworks, compensation structures, and performance management, and rolling them out.
- Strong working knowledge of Indian labour law and compliance across more than one state.
- Comfort with people data, and the ability to use it to guide decisions.
- The confidence to share an honest point of view with founders and senior leaders.
- A hands-on approach. In the first year, you will build your team while also doing much of the work yourself.

Good to have:

- Experience in creative, PR, or marketing agencies, and an understanding of how client work shapes people's days.
- Experience setting up new offices or teams in new cities.
- Experience with modern HRMS platforms and an interest in automating HR work.

What we offer:

- A seat in the leadership team and a direct line to the founders.
- A full mandate to build the people function of a fast-growing, multi-city communications house.
- The chance to shape the company at the stage where it matters most.
- Competitive compensation, in line with the seniority of the role.

📌 Chief People Officer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Bold & Beyond
📍 Bengaluru