Human Resources Business Partner

Goldmine Advertising; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent advertising agency in Mumbai seeks a seasoned HR leader to drive organizational growth from 100 to 500+ employees. This role involves leading large teams, designing effective HR workflows, and ensuring employee satisfaction during scaling. The ideal candidate has over 15 years of experience, including work in media and advertising sectors. A full-time position is available, with some remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• Cumulative work experience of 15+ years in HR leadership.
• Experience in rapidly scaling organizations (100 to 500+ employees).
• Knowledge of the Media, Advertising, and Entertainment industries.

Responsibilities

• Build a future-ready people structure for rapid scaling.
• Create long-term leadership training and HR automation programs.
• Strengthen culture and employee satisfaction during growth.
• Guide people's strategy and HR structure with maturity.

Skills

Experience leading large teams through rapid scaling and workforce transformation

Built automated HR workflows

Defined and operationalized KRAs and OKRs

Designed chain of command structures and policies

Trained leadership on performance and people development

Built systems for employee knowledge retention

Created clear succession pipelines

Solved org challenges like burnout and culture risk

Built a people culture supporting collaboration

Job description

A senior management leader with decades of HR experience in building, scaling, and strengthening organizations. Someone who has taken teams through major growth phases — including scaling people orgs from 100 to 500+ employees, while ensuring clarity in structure, leadership readiness, and employee satisfaction.

A balanced operator and coach — bringing process discipline, cultural maturity, and a long-term view to help people teams grow sustainably.

What they bring

• Experience leading large teams through rapid scaling and workforce transformation
• Built automated HR workflows to improve efficiency and reduce operational friction
• Defined and operationalized KRAs, OKRs, and goal-setting frameworks at 200+ scale
• Designed chain of command structures, policies, escalation frameworks, and HR playbooks
• Trained leadership regularly on performance, hiring, reporting structures, and people development
• Built systems for employee knowledge retention and knowledge-loss prevention
• Able to create clear succession pipelines and leadership readiness plans, ensuring future leaders are identified early and developed intentionally.
• Solved org challenges including long working hours, burnout, culture scale risk, employee morale, and satisfaction
• Built a people culture that supports collaboration, team cohesion, leadership evolution, and employee wellbeing

Agency scaling mandate

• Build a future-ready people structure to scale from 100 → 500+ in 2–3 years
• Create long-term leadership training programs, HR automation, org design clarity, and knowledge retention systems
• Strengthen culture, leadership diversity, employee satisfaction, team building, and talent stability
• Ensure growth happens with clarity, trust, learning depth, and organizational maturity

Working model

• Full-time or consultant — both open
• Able to spend 3–4 days/week in office
• Has operated at 200+ org scale and understands growth pressures long-term
• Worked in Media, Advertising, Entertainment, creative Industries
• Cumulative work experience should be 15 years +
• Worked 3+ years with family-run, independent, or local businesses in India, with strong understanding of owner-led people dynamics and fast decision environments.

We expect this role to also help build and shape the organization’s long-term growth vision — guiding people strategy, leadership culture, learning depth, and HR structure with maturity and resilience.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Human Resources

Industries

• Advertising Services, Entertainment Providers, and Business Consulting and Services