HR Business Partner

Our mission is to make a world where everyone has access to delivery. Where goods move as freely as information moves today.

This is possible. Today the cost of moving on a scooter is 2/km. Thats the cost of moving a 150kg mass from point A to B. Were bringing that mass down to less than 5kgs concurrently bringing the cost down to 10 paise/km. This is how we make deliveries a reality. This is how we create a world where were doing billions of deliveries per day.

The tech is not there. The current cost of drone delivery is 100/km. We need to completely redefine the way things are done here. Were building the worlds most efficient aircraft from the ground-up and scaling that up to beyond anything the aerospace sector has ever seen. This cannot be an iterative process. We have to tear down all conventions and build everything up from scratch.

To do this we need nothing less than the best engineers. The ones who care about building something fundamentally different who are deeply curious about understanding the fundamentals of everything theyre working on who are dreamers that believe in the impossible.

The HR Business Partner is the connective tissue between Airbounds people and its mission. You will partner directly with engineering manufacturing operations and business leaders to build an organization that can scale from 150 people to many times that without losing the speed and ownership that make us work. This is a first hire role on the people-partnering side. You will design how we manage performance grow managers resolve people issues and keep culture intact as we scale across locations in an aerospace company that moves faster than the sector has ever attempted. Hiring is owned by our Talent Acquisition team. You own everything that happens once great people are here: how they land how they grow how theyre led how theyre rewarded and how they stay.

• Partner with leaders across engineering manufacturing and operations as their trusted advisor on team structure performance and people decisions

• Own the post-hire experience in partnership with Talent Acquisition: pick up the handoff at signing and run onboarding orientation andintegration so new joiners ramp and stick

• Build and run performance management from goal setting and review cycles to calibration and feedback and improve it as we scale

• Coach managers through hard conversations team gaps and growth planning raising the bar on how we lead

• Own employee relations end to end surface issues early investigate fairly and resolve them cleanly

• Design and roll out people policies compensation frameworks and compliance practices from scratch tuned for a fast-moving hardware company

• Partner on organization design and workforce planning as teams form split and grow across locations

• Drive engagement retention and culture keeping a real pulse on how the team is doing and acting on it before small problems become big ones

• Maintain accurate people data and documentation as the company grows

• 5 years in HR business partnering people operations or a generalist HR role ideally in fast-paced engineering-first hardware or manufacturing environments

• Previous experience in the hardware manufacturing or aerospace talent landscape and what it takes to grow and retain that talent

• Sharp judgment: you flag team risks and people issues in real time before they become problems

• Strong track record coaching managers and leaders and handling employee relations with fairness and discretion

• Experience owning onboarding and the post-hire ramp and partnering cleanly with recruiting on the handoff

• Experience building people processes policies and performance systems from scratch not just running ones that already exist

• Disciplined and process-driven with a bias toward clean documentation and tight operational control

• Excellent communication documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Comfortable with Google Suite Notion and other collaboration tools

• Previous experience as an early hire at a startup building the HRBP function from nothing

Work location: Hoskote Bangalore (Headquarters)

• Comprehensive health insurance to keep you and your loved ones covered

• Relocation assistance and a daily travel stipend to ease your commute

• Advanced salary credit to support you when you need it

A driven passionate team where youll have room to grow and thrive - this is more than just a job its a rare opportunity to build something meaningful from the ground up

• In-office role working alternate Saturdays.

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