Head of People & Organization Design

Department : People & Talent / Organizational Strategy

Location : Chennai preferred; open to candidates across South India, with frequent visits to the Chennai office required.

Experience Required : 18+ years

Employment Type : Full Time

About the Role :

We are seeking a transformative Head of People & Talent to help architect an AI-native, high-performance organization. This is not a traditional CHRO mandate centered on HR operations. The role combines strategic talent leadership, organizational design, and deep partnership with the CEO, CTO, and senior leadership to rethink how people, teams, and intelligent systems work together.

The successful leader will shape an environment defined by exceptional talent density, technical excellence, ownership, speed, and a culture of high standards - while designing scalable structures and people practices for rapid growth.

Key Responsibilities :

- Partner with executive leadership to define an AI-native organizational model, including team structures, roles, decision rights, workflows, and incentives.
- Build a top 1% talent-density philosophy through rigorous leadership hiring, talent assessment, succession planning, and thoughtful talent development.
- Advise engineering and product leaders on how to design and scale high-performing technical teams with transparent accountability and effective collaboration.
- Lead organization design through rapid growth and ambiguity, anticipating capability gaps and adapting structures as priorities evolve.
- Shape human + AI collaboration models: identify opportunities for workforce augmentation, redesign work, and evolve performance and productivity measures.
- Define approaches to capability building, learning, and performance that keep pace with AI-driven changes to skills and ways of working.
- Protect and reinforce a culture of intensity, ownership, speed, high standards,



and constructive challenge as the organization scales.
- Ensure foundational people operations and governance support the operating model without becoming the center of the function.

Required Skills & Experience :

- Proven strategic people or talent leadership in fast-scaling, high-performance technology, engineering, or product-led organizations.
- Strong understanding of how engineering and product teams operate, including technical leadership, talent assessment, and organizational effectiveness.
- Demonstrated success in organizational design, leadership hiring, succession planning, and scaling teams through change and ambiguity.
- Ability to influence founders, executives, and senior technical leaders with sound judgment, presence, and credibility. • Experience shaping performance systems, incentives, and leadership expectations that reinforce ownership and high standards.
- Commercial and systems-oriented thinking: able to connect talent decisions with business outcomes, productivity, and execution.

Good to Have :

- Exposure to AI-led workforce transformation, augmentation, or redesign of human + AI workflows. • Experience developing new approaches to measuring capability, team productivity, and performance in AI-enabled environments.
- Experience supporting global or distributed engineering organizations.

What Success Looks Like :

- A clear, adaptable organizational blueprint for an AI-native company.
- Stronger leadership bench and sustained concentration of exceptional technical talent.
- Teams designed for faster decisions, greater ownership, and effective human + AI collaboration. • A distinctive high-performance culture that remains strong as Winter grows.

Ideal Candidate : A builder and organizational architect, not merely an HR administrator. Someone equally comfortable challenging an executive operating model, evaluating exceptional engineering leaders, and turning an ambitious talent philosophy into practical systems that scale.

📌 Head of People & Organization Design / Head of People & Talent (Chennai)
🏢 Bramkas
📍 Chennai