We're Hiring: Lead HR | Hitwicket Your work will directly shape how we hire, how our teams perform, and how strong our culture becomes. This is a high-impact role where strategic thinking meets hands-on execution, and people decisions directly influence business outcomes. At Hitwicket? (stalk us at hitwicket.com), we're on a mission to be THE game for Cricket. Think FIFA and Football. We're building a cricket strategy game played by millions across the world, with a team that loves solving complex problems, moving fast and building things from scratch. Key Highlights ✨ Over 20 Million players across 120+ countries. ✨ Winner of the Prime Minister's AatmaNirbhar App Challenge. ✨ Featured across publications like Inc42, Moneycontrol, Mint and more. What You'll Own
• People Strategy & Business Partnering: Work closely with the founders and team leads to align people priorities with business goals, solve team challenges and make sound people decisions.
• Organisation Planning & Development: Drive organisation planning, team structures, role clarity and hiring plans. Identify gaps in team capabilities and help leaders plan for future needs.
• Talent Acquisition: Own hiring strategy and execution across teams, from understanding hiring needs and building talent pipelines to closing critical roles. Set clear hiring processes and ensure quality and speed.
• Performance Management: Own the performance management cycle, including goal setting, appraisals, feedback, performance improvement plans and promotion decisions. Establish clear performance expectations and accountability across teams.
• People & Employee Relations:



Take ownership of the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, employee development, conflict resolution, difficult conversations and exits. Ensure decisions are fair, thoughtful and aligned with business needs.
• Culture & Engagement: Shape and strengthen Hitwicket's culture as the organisation grows. Identify gaps in employee experience, address concerns and build initiatives that improve engagement and team effectiveness.
• Manager & Leadership Development: Partner with team leads to improve people management, handle performance challenges, give effective feedback and build stronger teams.
• Building Systems & Processes: Build and improve HR processes, policies and systems across hiring, performance, engagement and people operations. Bring structure where needed.
• HR Operations & Compliance: Ensure HR operations, employee records, HRMS, policies and statutory compliance run smoothly.
• Hands-on Execution: Stay close to the details, personally drive critical initiatives and follow through on decisions.. This role combines ownership of the HR function with hands-on execution. You'll be expected to shape the overall direction, work closely with leadership, and personally drive important initiatives rather than simply delegate them. What We're Looking For:




• 5–8 years of experience in HR, preferably in startups or high-growth companies.
• Experience across the HR lifecycle, including hiring, HR business partnering, performance management, employee engagement, culture and HR operations.
• Experience working closely with founders, leadership teams and department heads.
• Strong judgement and the ability to navigate people challenges, sensitive situations and difficult conversations.
• Experience building HR systems and processes from scratch and improving them as the organisation grows.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Solid communication, stakeholder management and decision-making skills.
• A high-ownership mindset. You take initiative, work independently and see things through to completion. Bonus if you:
• Have helped scale the HR function in a lean startup environment.
• Have worked with fast-growing, product-led teams. Why Join Hitwicket?
• Work directly with founders: Be part of key business and people decisions.
• Build, don't just maintain: Create systems and processes that evolve with the organisation.
• Make a real impact: Influence how teams grow, perform and work together.
• Own the entire HR function: Shape hiring, performance, people management and culture.
• Be part of an ambitious team: Work in an setting built around ownership, accountability and speed. If you enjoy building things, solving people challenges and making a tangible difference to how a company operates, we'd love to hear from you.

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