HR Generalist
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Work Mode: On-site
Experience: 3–5 years
About Habuild
Habuild is a fast-growing HealthTech company on a mission to help people build sustainable, healthy habits through yoga and technology. With a community of over 1.8 crore users, we are building technology-driven solutions that make wellness accessible to millions.
We are looking for an HR Generalist who can own the complete employee lifecycle, from hiring and onboarding to people operations, compliance, and employee engagement. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, takes ownership, and uses AI tools to make HR processes smarter and more efficient.
What You’ll Do
1. People Operations & Employee Lifecycle
- Own the end-to-end employee lifecycle, including offer letters, onboarding, employee records, attendance, leave management, and exit formalities.
- Maintain accurate employee documentation, HR databases, and personnel records.
- Coordinate payroll inputs, employee data, and monthly attendance and leave reconciliation.
- Build and improve HR processes, policies, and workflows to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
2. Talent Acquisition
- Own end-to-end hiring for business and technical roles, from understanding requirements and sourcing candidates to screening, interview coordination, offer management, and joining.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements and build effective hiring pipelines.
- Ensure a positive candidate experience and drive timely hiring closures.
- Use AI tools and technology to improve sourcing, screening, communication, and recruitment efficiency.
3. HR Compliance & Policies
- Ensure adherence to applicable Indian HR and employment compliance requirements, including PF, ESI, gratuity, and POSH.
- Maintain statutory records, employee documentation, and compliance-related trackers.
- Support the implementation and regular review of HR policies and processes.
- Coordinate with external consultants or vendors wherever required for payroll and statutory compliance.
4. Performance Management & Employee Engagement
- Coordinate performance review cycles, feedback collection, and appraisal processes.
- Support employee engagement initiatives, internal communication, and workplace culture-building activities.
- Assist in employer branding initiatives and strengthen Habuild’s positioning as an employer of choice.
- Act as a reliable point of contact for employees on HR-related queries and workplace matters.
5. AI-Driven HR Operations
- Use AI tools regularly to streamline HR workflows, improve productivity, and reduce manual effort.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks across recruitment, documentation, employee communication, and reporting.
- Demonstrate practical examples of how AI tools have improved the quality, speed, or efficiency of your HR work.
Must-Have Requirements
- 3–5 years of HR experience in a startup or product-based company, with hands-on exposure to both people operations and talent acquisition.
- Experience owning the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, employee records, leave and attendance, payroll inputs, and exits.
- Working knowledge of Indian HR compliance requirements, including PF, ESI, gratuity, and POSH.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end hiring for actual business or technical roles.
- Strong AI proficiency: Regularly uses AI tools in day-to-day HR work and can demonstrate practical use cases or workflows.
- Strong ownership, attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
Good-to-Have Requirements
- Experience as the first HR hire or in building HR processes from scratch at a startup.
- Experience hiring for engineering, product, or other technical roles.
- Exposure to employer branding and recruitment marketing.
- Experience running performance review and appraisal cycles.
- Proficiency in both Hindi and English.
Who Should Apply?
We are looking for a well-rounded HR professional who combines people operations, hiring, compliance, and technology-enabled problem-solving.
This role is not suited to candidates whose experience is limited exclusively to recruitment, payroll, administration, or agency/RPO hiring. We value candidates who have worked across multiple HR functions and can demonstrate genuine ownership of processes from start to finish.
If you enjoy building systems, solving people-related challenges, and using AI to make HR more effective, we’d love to hear from you.
