People & Business Operations Manager

Experience Co. (BHX/Bucketlist); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Experience Co. (BHX/Bucketlist) in Bengaluru seeks a hands-on operator to build the internal operating system that helps the company move quickly without becoming messy.

With 3–6 years of experience, you will understand how the entire company works, not just a single HR or finance lane. You will work across people operations, finance coordination and internal systems to streamline processes and close loops without always needing founder intervention.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in startup operations or related roles
• Experience handling end-to-end onboarding, offboarding, payroll inputs, and leave records
• Comfortable reading reconciliations and operational reports
• Experience building checklists, SOPs, dashboards, or workflows
• Willingness to work from Bengaluru office Monday to Friday

Responsibilities

• Run the employee lifecycle end-to-end including onboarding, offboarding, payroll inputs, leaves, assets and records
• Keep leave and attendance clean and respond to employee questions with discretion
• Coordinate finance operations with AP, external CA team, banks and vendors, chasing exceptions to closure
• Build systems that people actually use by turning recurring reminders, errors or questions into checklists, workflows or source of truth
• Use AI to automate repetitive tasks while protecting human judgment in sensitive employee and financial matters
• Maintain a simple weekly pulse of open items, owners, due dates and risks, flagging issues with clear options and required decisions
• Provide a close view of how a founder-led, profitable experience company operates across people, money and execution

Job description

You will build the internal operating system that lets Experience Co. move quickly without becoming messy.

This is a hands-on role for someone with 3–6 years of experience who wants to understand how an entire company works—not remain inside one narrow HR or finance lane.

You will work across people operations, finance coordination and internal systems. You will see where work gets stuck between teams, turn recurring confusion into a clear process, and make sure important loops close without waiting for the founder to step in.

You will not be starting from zero. An external CA team handles accounting, GST, TDS, taxes and audit. An accounts-payable associate manages payment preparation and bank-balance tracking. Several reporting processes are already automated.

Your job will be to make these pieces work together—and build what is still missing.

What you will own

You will run the employee lifecycle. You will make onboarding and offboarding predictable: documents, payroll inputs, access, assets and records. You will keep leave and attendance clean, answer employee questions and handle sensitive details with care—without creating bureaucracy.

You will keep finance operations moving. You will review payment, reconciliation and month-close inputs; coordinate with our AP associate, external CA team, banks and vendors; and chase exceptions to closure. You will not keep the books or file taxes. You will know what should happen, when it should happen and who must act when it does not.

You will build systems people actually use. When the same reminder, error or question appears twice, you will turn it into a checklist, workflow, automation or clear source of truth. You will use AI to clear repetitive work and protect human judgment for sensitive employee and financial matters.

You will make ownership visible. You will maintain a simple weekly pulse of open items, owners, due dates and risks. You will bring bad news early, with the facts, what you have already tried and the decision required. Functional leaders will still own their decisions; your job is to make the operating reality impossible to miss.

What this role gives you

You will get a close view of how a founder-led, profitable experience company actually operates across people, money and execution. You will have room to simplify systems, remove recurring friction and see the effect of your work quickly.

This is a strong seat for a rising startup operator: broad enough to learn the whole business, concrete enough that your impact is visible every week.

You will probably fit if

• You have owned onboarding, offboarding, payroll inputs, leave or employee records end-to-end.
• You are comfortable reading reconciliations, operational reports and exception lists, even if you are not an accountant.
• You have built a checklist, SOP, dashboard or workflow that other people genuinely used.
• You close loops without needing repeated follow-ups.
• You bring problems early, with options.
• You can handle confidential employee and financial information with discretion.
• You can work from our Bengaluru office Monday to Friday.

This is not for you if

• You want a pure HR engagement role, a pure accounting role or a strategy-only role.
• You enjoy designing process more than running it every week.
• You need clean functional lanes and a fully defined task list.
• Your first answer to recurring work is to hire more people.
• You measure activity rather than closed outcomes.
• You need the founder to make routine operating calls.