Chief People Officer

Bramkas Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bramkas Inc. is seeking a strategic Head of People & Organization Design to drive an AI-native, high-performance organization from its Chennai base.

You will redesign teams, roles, workflows and operating models to accelerate growth while elevating talent quality and technical excellence. Working closely with the CEO, CTO and senior leadership, you will shape leadership hiring, governance, culture and reward systems, ensuring alignment between people decisions and business outcomes in a

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in senior strategic HR or people leadership.
• Experience in fast-scaling, product or engineering-led companies.
• Experience supporting organizations of approximately 1,000–5,000 employees.
• Strong track record in organizational design, leadership hiring, succession planning and performance management.
• Deep understanding of how engineering and product teams operate.
• Experience partnering directly with founders, CEOs, CTOs and senior business leaders.
• Ability to connect people decisions with business outcomes, productivity and execution.
• Strong judgment, executive presence and confidence to challenge existing ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Design organizational structures, roles, decision rights, workflows and incentives aligned with business priorities.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to build and scale high-performing technical teams.
• Lead leadership hiring, talent assessment, succession planning and leadership development.
• Guide organizational change through rapid growth and ambiguity.
• Design performance and reward systems that strengthen accountability, ownership and high standards.
• Identify opportunities for AI-led workforce augmentation and redesign how people and AI work together.
• Develop measures for team productivity, performance and capability development.
• Protect and strengthen company culture as the organization scales.
• Ensure people operations and governance support effective business execution.

Skills

Organizational Design

People Strategy

Strategic HR

Leadership Hiring

Succession Planning

Talent Management

Performance Management

Workforce Planning

Culture Transformation

Change Management

AI Workforce Transformation

Engineering HR

Job description

Chief People Office

Head of People & Organization Design

• Location: Chennai
• Experience: 20+ years
• Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
• Department: People & Talent / Organizational Strategy

About the Role

We are hiring a strategic Head of People & Organization Design to help build an AI-native, high-performance organization.

Working closely with the CEO, CTO and senior leadership, you will redesign teams, roles, workflows, incentives and operating models to support rapid growth. The focus is on exceptional talent quality, technical excellence, ownership and speed.

This is a business-level people leadership role with a strong emphasis on organizational design and transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design organizational structures, roles, decision rights, workflows and incentives aligned with business priorities.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to build and scale high-performing technical teams.
• Lead leadership hiring, talent assessment, succession planning and leadership development.
• Guide organizational change through rapid growth and ambiguity.
• Design performance and reward systems that strengthen accountability, ownership and high standards.
• Identify opportunities for AI-led workforce augmentation and redesign how people and AI work together.
• Develop measures for team productivity, performance and capability development.
• Protect and strengthen company culture as the organization scales.
• Ensure people operations and governance support effective business execution.

Required Skills & Experience

• 20+ years of experience, including senior strategic HR or people leadership.
• Proven experience in fast-scaling, product or engineering-led companies.
• Experience supporting organizations of approximately 1,0005,000 employees.
• Strong track record in organizational design, leadership hiring, succession planning and performance management.
• Deep understanding of how engineering and product teams operate.
• Experience partnering directly with founders, CEOs, CTOs and senior business leaders.
• Ability to connect people decisions with business outcomes, productivity and execution.
• Strong judgment, executive presence and confidence to challenge existing ways of working.

Good to Have

• Exposure to AI-led workforce transformation or humanAI workflow design.
• Experience developing productivity and performance measures for AI-enabled teams.
• Experience supporting global or distributed engineering organizations.

Ideal Candidate

• A builder and organizational architect who has shaped how a business operates, strengthened its leadership pipeline and maintained a high-performance culture through growth.
• Candidates whose experience is primarily in talent acquisition, HR operations, payroll, policy or compliance will not align with the scope of this role.

Key Skills

Organizational Design, People Strategy, Strategic HR, Organizational Effectiveness, Leadership Hiring, Succession Planning, Talent Management, Performance Management, Workforce Planning, Culture Transformation, Change Management, AI Workforce Transformation, Engineering HR.