Purpose of the role:  Help build Wheelocity as a great place to work.

 

 

1.  Help reinforce great work culture through employee engagement:  

As the founding team of Wheelocity, we have laid out a clear culture code - a set of 8 core values and 5 "ways of life" that all Wheelocitians live by.  While we have laid these out, I believe the success of this lies in embodying them and imbibing these values in the organization through various initiatives.  

The HR-Head would be primarily expected to drive these values in the org through various employee engagement activities & SRS (Stories-Rituals-Symbols).

This is especially important given the fact that we have three types of teams (1) Product/Engineering teams based @ Bangalore (2) Strategy & Corproate: teams @ Chennai (3) Field team; and that the aspirations/expectations of these teams are widely varying.

 

2.  Build Wheelocity as a Talent Magnet for A-listers:

The problem we're solving would require us to build out an all-star team of self-starters at all levels.  The HR Head would play a pivotal role in attracting great talent into Wheelocity, and this is a key expectation from this role.  

 

3.  Build a robust Comp & Ben Strategy to retain talent:

Given the dynamics of the industry (SCM, Agri, tech) and the startup space in general, we will need to build a robust and scientific comp & ben strategy inline with evolving industry needs.  This would include monetary & non-monetary aspects and we will need expert support on this.

 

4.  Provide leadership to the Ops-HR team:

We have a 6-member HR team already that takes care of the ops part of HR (salary/payroll, statutory, operational part of recruitment), as well as does a great job in field recruitment (this team basically help us ramp up to 250+ member field team in the past 12 months).   While this team executes greatly, they will need leadership with respect to the direction, and will need a lot of guidance/handholding support as we grow.

 

1.  Two persona profiles possible:

• A senior HR professional with 15+years of domain expertise.  
• Academically brilliant, with 7-9 years of experience with large growth aspirations.

2.  At least 3 years of Startup experience is definitely needed (latest stint preferred)

3.  Be willing to go through with the founding & leadership teams and push the team to embody our core values

4.  A strong personality with a change management mindset.  High level of maturity is hence needed.

5.  Must be clear that they will step into an org with very diverse exepctations/requirements.