Talent Acquisition & HR Partner (Founding Team) in Pune

Rahul Madhukar Metkar; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexi working

Work from home

Performance bonus

Job/soft skill training

Annual bonus

Job summary

Rahul Madhukar Metkar in Pune seeks a founding Talent Acquisition & HR Partner to shape people operations from scratch. This is a founder-aligned role with high ownership, flexible hours, and direct impact on culture and growth.

You will recruit across functions, build processes, and implement the initial HR toolkit while sharing in long-term wealth through equity and performance incentives. Experience in startup or high-growth hiring is valued.

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial approach to talent acquisition and people ops.
• Ability to own end-to-end recruitment processes in a startup setting.
• Willingness to operate with high risk and high reward incentives.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on recruitment across roles with passive candidate sourcing.
• Own the candidate pipeline and coordinate interview lifecycle with founder.
• Select and implement initial ATS and talent tools.
• Maintain high availability during peak hiring and critical milestones.
• Coordinate onboarding and foundational people operations.

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Outcome-driven builder

Agility

Dynamic availability

Execution autonomy

Job description

Looking for Talent Acquisition & HR Partner (Founding Team) in Pune

About Us

We are fast-moving Company built on agility, high performance, and relentless execution. As a sole-founder operation, we are looking for a founding partner to take complete ownership of our people operations. This is not a traditional corporate desk jobit is a rare opportunity to build a companys culture and talent infrastructure completely from scratch beside the founder.

The Opportunity & Compensation Philosophy

We operate on a lean company budget but believe in rewarding elite value creation. This role offers a lean base salary paired with significant, high-upside financial incentives (such as equity, revenue-sharing, or uncapped milestone bonuses). If you are looking for a comfortable, predictable corporate package, this is not the role for you. If you want to bet on your own execution and share directly in the long-term wealth you help create, we want to talk to you.

About You (The Ideal Candidate)

You are an ambitious builder who treats the business like your own. You thrive in ambiguity, excel under pressure, and prefer an entrepreneurial model over a rigid routine.

Key Attributes:

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: You approach talent acquisition with a business-owner mentality, embracing a high-risk, high-reward model with explosive financial upside.
• Outcome-Driven Builder: You value long-term company ownership and performance-tied incentives, wanting your income to directly mirror the growth you generate.
• Agility: You possess the grit required to navigate unstructured environments and build processes from the ground up.
• Dynamic Availability: You take complete ownership of your pipelines, scaling your efforts and maintaining a highly flexible schedule to engage top-tier passive candidates whenever necessary.
• Execution Autonomy: You are a self-directed professional who runs full-cycle operations independently without needing micro-management.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-On Recruitment: Manage the full-cycle recruitment process, from aggressive passive candidate sourcing to final onboarding.
• Pipeline Ownership: Partner directly with the founder to define role requirements, build robust candidate pipelines, and manage the interview lifecycle.
• Infrastructure Building: Select, implement, and optimize the initial Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and talent tools.
• Agility & Support: Maintain high availability and responsiveness during peak hiring cycles, adjusting work hours dynamically to meet critical business milestones.
• Foundational HR Operations: Coordinate basic onboarding, documentation, and foundational people operations to ensure a smooth candidate experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record in high-volume or fast-paced recruitment environments (agency recruitment or early-stage startup backgrounds are highly preferred).
• Demonstrated experience hunting and closing high-quality passive talent through LinkedIn and professional networks.
• Exceptional emotional intelligence, communication skills, and the ability to act as a strategic sounding board for the founder.
• Prior experience as an early employee or builder in a previous venture is a significant advantage.

Summarizing: -

Preferred candidate profile

• A professional who takes complete ownership of their pipelines and is comfortable maintaining a flexible schedule to engage top talent whenever necessary.
• Eager to take on hands-on tasks and practical responsibilities.
• Take complete ownership of the candidate pipeline for technical, commercial, and executive roles.
• Drive employer branding initiatives and represent the company at networking events.
• Ready to hire & interact with senior staff.
• Demonstrates high availability and responsiveness during peak hiring cycles and critical launch phases.
• Designed for an outcome-focused executor who wants their income to directly reflect the value they bring to the business.
• Positioned for a professional who prefers performance-tied financial upside over a traditional fixed salary.

Perks and benefits

• Flexi working
• Work from home
• Performance bonus
• Job/soft skill training
• Annual bonus