Job Description
Media Production, Digital Content, and Creative Agency. 11-50 employees. About YOSO Media: If you have enjoyed any of these content IPs recently, there is a good chance we played a role in their success including Vineeta Singh's New Podcast for Sugar Cosmetics, The Barbershop Podcast, Elevation Capital, Asymmetric Podcast, Prabhkiran Singh from Bewakoof, and Prashant Sachan. Our clients include top founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs shaping industries across India. Over the last 6 months, we have launched 20+ podcast IPs, produced 300+ episodes, and driven 100 million organic views per month. Our philosophy is simple, we build sustainable content that keeps delivering over time. While the world chases viral spikes, we focus on building systems. About the Role: YOSO Media is a 50-person team of editors, writers, strategists, account managers and designers across Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune, and we are building the people function from the ground up. As Head of People, you will be our first people leader. You will own everything from how we hire and set the bar, to how we review, pay, grow and retain the team, and you will build the systems that let two founders step out of day-to-day people decisions. This is a builder’s role. You will lead a small team including a Talent Acquisition Lead and People Operations Executive, and work directly with the founders on org design and headcount. Key Responsibilities: Performance Management: Own the performance system end to end including appraisal cycles, calibration, promotion and increment frameworks, and a fair, well-documented process for performance improvement. Make sure every person knows what good looks like in their role and how they are tracking against it. Org Design and Workforce Planning: Maintain a single, accurate org chart with defined roles, levels and reporting lines. Partner with the founders on team structure, spans of control for pod leads, backups for single-person roles, and a headcount plan tied to revenue and delivery capacity. Talent Acquisition Leadership: Set the hiring bar with the founders and lead the Talent Acquisition Lead to deliver against it through structured interviews, standardized scorecards, live assessments, and hiring managers running early rounds. Own time-to-hire and quality-of-hire metrics. Manager Enablement: Build the manager playbook covering 1 on 1s, feedback, weekly planning, and difficult conversations, and coach first-time managers. Retention and Engagement: Run stay conversations with critical talent, own the engagement survey and its follow-through, conduct exit interviews, track attrition by team and reason, and bring early warning with recommendations to founders. Compensation and Benefits: Build and maintain salary bands by role and level, run the increment budget with Finance, approve offers within bands, review pay equity, and own benefits programs like group health insurance and leave. Policy and Compliance: Write the employee handbook and keep it current covering leave, work-from-home, attendance, code of conduct, and POSH. Ensure statutory compliance covering PF, ESI, PT, Shops and Establishments, and gratuity across four states. Onboarding and Culture: Design the first-90-days experience so new hires master the basics before stretching. Build rituals and recognition that make company values visible and drive adoption of AI-first ways of working. People Operations Oversight: Run an HR operation through the People Operations Executive with HRMS as the single source of truth, timely payroll inputs, clean documentation, and audit-ready records. Founder Leverage: Publish a weekly people dashboard covering headcount, open roles, attrition, bench, and upcoming reviews, bringing actionable recommendations. Qualifications: 7 to 10 years in HR with at least 3 years as an HR generalist, HRBP or people lead at a 50 to 300 person company. Media, creative, agency or high-growth startup experience strongly preferred. Proven track record building performance systems, compensation bands, or structured hiring frameworks. Working knowledge of Indian labour law and statutory compliance across multiple states. Comfortable running HRMS platforms such as Keka, greytHR, Zoho People, fluent in Google Sheets and Excel. Systems thinker with strong judgment, discretion, and clear communication. Daily active user of AI tools for drafting, analysis, and process design.
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Success Stories from Candidates Placed in this Field
Laxmi
OUTBOOKS UK MNC, Gurgaon
★★★★★
"I want to say a bigggggggggggg
THANKS
to the team
and especially you for sharing such amazing opportunities and openings of HR.
I am deeply glad to share I have received an offer from one of the organisation "OUTBOOKS" and will be joining on from Monday 19th sept.
Thanks for providing these services to me and also I would be sharing about this service to my friends who are looking for opportunities in HR domain.
Once again a big thank and
deepest gratitude♫"
Kalki - Bangalore
The Purple Turtles, Bangalore - Asst HR Manager
★★★★★
"Hi Pallavi and team,
I got an offer from "The Purple Turtles" as Asst HR Manager with a very decent package.
Thank you so very much for your continuous efforts and support all these days. You were really very serious and committed towards getting me a job. Great team effort.
Finally all efforts became successful.
Thanks a ton Pallavi.
I am joining them this 21st. Will
keep you posted."
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