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Hiring for one of our key portfolio company:About the companyWe are a fast-growing, Mumbai-based consumer brand operating at meaningful scale across multiple product lines, geographies, and functions. As the business grows in complexity, the next phase requires stronger organizational design, leadership depth, managerial quality, and institutional readiness.We are looking for a CHRO who can help organize this journey thoughtfully - someone who understands both transformation and the need to stay culturally native to the business while building for scale.About the roleThis role is about building the people engine for the company’s next phase.The CHRO will partner closely with founders and senior leaders to shape an organization that can scale with greater clarity, stronger leadership, sharper systems, and long-term institutional readiness. This is not a role for someone who only manages HR operations. It requires someone who can stay focused on next-order organization and talent questions, while helping build the structure, discipline, and leadership capability needed for the years ahead.What you will own- Architect the organization for the next phase of scale across business lines, geographies, and leadership layers - Build stronger leadership quality, succession thinking, and senior talent assessment - Drive transformation in how the company thinks about talent, performance, culture, and managerial effectiveness - Create people systems that are scalable, relevant, and actually used . Stress test the current ones for impact and relevance. - Partner deeply with founders and senior leaders on difficult people, organization, and capability decisions - Help the company build toward stronger institutional and long-term readiness without losing entrepreneurial speed and sharpnessWhat we are really looking forThis role needs someone who has personally seen and handled scale, understands the realities of a high-growth consumer business, and knows how to organize a people charter in a complex environment.The person should be able to operate with both strategic depth and practical judgment — someone who can hold multiple aspects of the journey together: org design, leadership, talent density, culture, performance, and governance.Just as importantly, we are looking for someone who understands that transformation cannot be imported mechanically. It has to be built in a way that is native to the company, its founders, its pace, and its operating reality.Non-negotiablesPlease apply only if you bring most of the following in a meaningful way:- Strong consumer business experience - Real experience solving for scale and organisational complexity - A track record of building trusted relationships with founders and senior leaders - Impact that is seen and verifiable - Experience working across multiple aspects of the people journey, not just one specialist area - Ability to balance transformation, culture, and institution-building in a fast-moving environment - Strong judgment, maturity, and capacity to influence at senior levelsYou may be a fit if you…- Bring 15+ years of experience across HR leadership, talent, organisation building, or leadership advisory. Max 18-20 years - Have worked in high-growth, high-intensity businesses where scale brought real organizational challenges - Are able to think like a business leader, not just a function owner - Can build systems and leadership capability without becoming overly process-heavy - Have the credibility to challenge, influence, and partner with strong stakeholdersWhy this roleThis is an opportunity to shape the people architecture of a business entering a defining phase of scale. The role comes with real founder access, real influence, and a meaningful mandate to help build an organization that is both high-performing and institutionally stronger over time.