Company Description Otavo.ai is a global AI-powered platform focused on senior-level recruitment for roles ranging from $50K USD to $2M+ in compensation. Founded by serial entrepreneur Mahak Garg, a Stanford MBA and Forbes Under 30 honoree, the company builds on her experience scaling previous ventures and raising significant global venture capital.

Otavo.ai currently partners with 30+ fast-growing companies worldwide to support their senior talent hiring needs. The platform maintains a curated network of 10,000+ high-performing candidates with 5–20 years of experience, including alumni from leading global business schools and professionals in senior roles across product, marketing, strategy, and more. For each opening, Otavo.ai shares a small number of pre-vetted, high-quality candidates, helping employers avoid long lists of weak matches and streamline decision-making.

Role Description

Otavo.ai is looking to hire for one of it's clients for the role of

Title: Associate Director / Director - People and Culture

Location: Bangalore

Job Type: Full-Time- Work From Office

Education preferably from TISS or XLRI

Key Responsibilities

1. Improve Talent Density

Raise the quality bar across hiring and talent decisions. Partner with business leaders on critical leadership hiring, strengthen sourcing capabilities, and position the company as a compelling destination for exceptional, mission-driven talent globally.
1. Build a Performance Culture

Help create clear scorecards, role expectations, feedback systems, and talent review mechanisms that drive accountability, meritocracy,



and continuous improvement across the organization.
1. Institutionalize planning and capacity building

Introduce scalable people processes and organizational practices that enable growth without bureaucracy. Drive initiatives across organizational design, workforce planning and capability building to ensure the organization scales ahead of business needs.
1. Nurture People Capabilities

Help develop the next generation of leaders, with particular emphasis on first-time managers and emerging leaders. Design interventions that strengthen managerial effectiveness, leadership behaviours, communication, coaching, decision-making, and global leadership capabilities.
1. Ensure that the company remains entrepreneurial, mission-driven, customer-obsessed, and highly

ownership-oriented as the company grows globally. Translate our values into everyday behaviours, practices and employee experiences. What We're Looking for in terms of past experience

● Experience of building and managing multiple HR disciplines, preferably in high-growth startups or scaling organizations. We believe this might mean 4-8 years of impactful experience but are versatile with this.

● Proven experience building and running people systems in growth stage startups - not just operating within a large, already-well established set up. We love doers.

● Referencable , showcaseable achievements in leadership hiring, performance management, and organizational development.

● High ownership, strong execution orientation, and comfort operating in ambiguity.

📌 Associate Director / Director - People and Culture (Bengaluru)
🏢 Otavo.ai
📍 Bengaluru