Lead – People Strategy & Culture, Global Health X, Hyderabad

Company Overview

Company details not provided.

Job Summary

This is a strategic People role focused on shaping how the organization scales across structure, leadership, and culture. You will work closely with founders and senior leadership to design the people strategy and ensure it translates into strong, consistent execution. While the role is anchored in strategy, it requires a hands-on approach in the early stages to build and embed the right systems, practices, and cultural foundations.

Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end People strategy across organizational design, talent development, business partnering, and culture.
• Bring a 360° view of the People function, seamlessly operating across People Strategy, Organizational Development/Talent Development (OD/TD), and HR Business Partner (HRBP) responsibilities.
• Partner with founders on organizational strategy, team design, and long-term workforce planning.
• Design and drive performance architecture including goal-setting, performance reviews, and feedback systems.
• Shape and institutionalize a high-performance, ownership-driven culture.
• Act as a strategic HRBP to leadership, aligning people decisions with business outcomes.
• Build leadership capability and managerial effectiveness across the organization.
• Define compensation and rewards philosophy that aligns with growth and performance.
• Translate strategy into simple, effective processes and ensure strong adoption across teams.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10 years of experience in People/HR roles with end-to-end ownership of the function, not limited to a single specialization.
• Strong experience in early-stage or scaling startups (0 → 10 / 1 → 50 journeys).
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and execution layers.
• Experience working closely with founders and influencing organizational-level decisions.
• Clear point of view on culture, performance, and organizational effectiveness.
• Ability to bring structure without slowing down pace.

Preferred Skills

• Tier 1 academic background (e.g., XLRI, TISS, MDI equivalent).
• Experience in high-growth, high-performance environments.
• Prior experience building people systems and frameworks from first principles.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in People/HR roles.

Environment

• Work setting not specified, expected to be dynamic given the nature of the role in a scaling organization.

Salary

Salary details not provided.

Growth Opportunities

• Shape the people strategy at a foundational stage of the company.
• Direct access to founders with influence on key business decisions.
• Opportunity to build and embed culture, not inherit it.
• High ownership with meaningful impact on company trajectory.

Benefits

Benefits information not provided.