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TL;DR: Head of People & Culture who understands how to build a cohesive workplace for the next generation builders.
🚀 About Fold
We're a small team with big ambitions. We are distributed across India with an HQ in Indiranagar, Bangalore. As of 2023, we're aiming to make personal finance delightful, simple, and easy with Fold.
We believe that the people you hire is the company you build. And that’s the reason our core team takes care of the whole recruitment process end-to-end. We would love for you to be a part of the journey.
🛠 What you'll be working on
Head of People and Culture is one of the most important role for us as it will shape up our culture. Here are few things you will be working on in this role -
- Cultural champion: Be a champion of our culture. Help the team understand and live our core values through effective programs that promote morale while achieving our company goals.
- Work closely with every team lead from the hiring need to the job definition until the onboarding process.
- Rebuild the internal recruitment to optimize for quality and accuracy of hiring, deep dive into different areas of the candidate assessment like purpose, culture fit, soft skills, technical skills, management approach, working style, and communication.
- Talent acquisition: own and coordinate the hiring process for new team members, scout the best possible candidates for all open roles, ensure the best hiring strategy depending on the role and country.
- Receive feedback from the team and keep a pulse on cultural issues that may be brewing. Accompany the teams to share good practices in the management of teams, projects, etc.
- Be the person in charge of optimizing our tools(notion, linear, slack, google workspace) and processes for efficiency and transparency.
- Create a system and manage quarterly performance bonuses.
- Organize all People-related documentation (contracts, invoices of external providers, etc.)
💯 You'd fit in if:
- You have a start-up mindset — highly collaborative with an entrepreneurial, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude. You’re not afraid to be responsible for the outcomes of your work and work independently when required.
- You view the people function as an integral component of innovation, continuously iterating and improving through recruitment, operations, performance evaluation, workplace culture, and diversity.
- You’re a critical thinker and are capable of balancing business objectives with the needs of our people.
- You take initiative, you’re results-driven and you show empathy in all your interactions with team members, mentors, and partners.
- You have strong emotional intelligence that allows you to quickly understand people’s needs and expectations and develop trust, engagement, and commitment in your relationships.
- Passion for your work and for lifelong learning.
- Growth mindset and resilience to overcome challenges, understanding that systemic change requires hard work.
- Able to juggle many different responsibilities and prioritize workload.
☝️ Skills we are looking for:
- 4+ years minimum of experience in a People role at a startup demonstrated leadership and vision in managing teams and major projects or initiatives.
- An HR generalist can jump on any problem to solve.
- A demonstrated commitment to high professional ethical standards and a diverse workplace.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative management style.
- Knowledge of startups’ growth challenges and people growth.
- Outstanding communication (written/verbal) & organizational skills.
- Digital proficiency, you like testing new tools and improving processes.
🌱 Join Us
- Full-time
- We'll set up your workspace
- Competitive stipend/salary
- Generous stock options
🎁 Other perks and benefits
- Generous leave policy. Unlimited paid leave.
- Flexible working hours: It doesn't matter if you're a morning person or a night owl, work when you want. We all work asynchronously. Meetings are the exception, not the rule.
- Get your perfect setup: Mac/Windows/Linux, mechanical keyboard, or anything that you need to do the best work of your life. We'll help set up your workspace.
- We'll take care of you: Team retreats, wellness allowance to take care of your physical and mental health (gym memberships, meditation apps, and anything you need). We work closely with Kahamind for taking care of your mental health and wellness.
- Health insurance & benefits. Comprehensive health insurance coverage includes free health check-ups, unlimited doctor consultations, dental care, and expansive personal accident insurance.
⚙️ Our recruitment process
- Introduction: Get on an introductory call with us. We'll talk about your interests, your past experience, our vision of the future, how you can help achieve ours, and how we contribute towards your personal goals.
- Take-home assignment: We will share documentation on how certain People & Culture processes currently work at Fold and you would help us understand how we could make them better.
- Culture-fit round & Lunch: If all goes well in these rounds, we’ll invite you to our office here in Bangalore. We’ll cover the cost end-to-end. This is something that is of utmost importance to us.
We move fast and are mindful of your time. The entire recruitment process takes less than a week. If all goes well we send an offer within 24 hours post the final step in the process. 🚀
✍️ Write to us
If you think you'd like to join us, write to us at join@fold.money (with "Head of People & Culture" as the subject), along with links to your personal portfolio, LinkedIn, or anything else you think might be relevant. To truly stand out, we recommend you answer at least one of the following questions in your email:
- What's your favourite app? How would you make it better?
- How can you make an environment where everybody feels comfortable sharing their opinions?
- How was your experience managing the conflicts at work?
- What’s the best way to give feedback?