Talent acquisition
Own end-to-end hiring for creative, performance, technology, and support roles, from requisition to offer and onboarding.
Build a sourcing pipeline across job boards, referrals, and creative and tech communities, and track time-to-hire and offer acceptance.

Employee lifecycle and HR operations
Manage onboarding, probation reviews, confirmations, and offboarding, including exit interviews and knowledge handover.
Maintain accurate employee records and ensure compliance with Indian labour law (Shops and Establishments, POSH, PF/ESI, gratuity, and statutory filings), working with external payroll and legal advisers.
Administer leave and attendance policies and benefits, and serve as the first point of contact for employee queries.

Performance and people development
Run the performance review cycle, calibration sessions, and performance improvement processes with managers.
Coach team leads on feedback, difficult conversations, and career progression.
Design and run learning and development programmes tied to real skill gaps in client-facing and specialist work.

Employee relations and culture
Shape and run culture initiatives,



recognition programmes, and internal communications that reflect how the company actually works.

Policy and governance
Draft and update the employee handbook and HR policies, keeping them practical and consistent across locations.
Compensation and workforce planning (shared with leadership)
Support annual compensation reviews with market benchmarking.
Help forecast headcount needs against revenue and client demand.

4 to 5 years of HR experience, with at least 2 in an HR business partner role, ideally in a creative, media, or marketing workplace.

- Hands-on experience across recruitment, employee relations, and HR operations, not just one of them.
- Working knowledge of Indian labour laws and statutory compliance.
- Comfort with data: you can build a simple tracker or dashboard in Excel or Sheets and use it to make decisions.
- Familiarity with HRIS or payroll tools and a willingness to improve how we use them.

Experience building performance or L&D; frameworks from scratch.

📌 Head of Human Resources & Payroll (Bengaluru)
🏢 Asylum
📍 Bengaluru