This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 1200000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 12 - 15 LPA)
Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Pune
JobType: full-time
As the first Org Development champion, this role involves building conditions for consistent, meaningful growth for freshers, first-time managers, and teams. The individual will work directly with leadership across the organization to understand people's needs and build effective systems. The core focus is on intentionally scaling a 300-person organization.
RequirementsKey Responsibilities
- Conduct ongoing skill gap assessments at individual, team, and org level and make the insights actionable
- Work with team leads to build individual development plans rooted in the KRA/KPI framework
- Create a framework to identify and flag people inconsistencies (performance, behaviour, culture) before they escalate
- Design cross-team learning mechanisms to reduce skill inequality driven by client/team exposure
- Partner with Org leadership proactively on org design questions as we scale
- Design and run development programmes for first-time managers, covering feedback, coaching, and people leadership basics
- Work with the Process Excellence team to bring in AI-led dashboarding, automation and issue-flagging into HR
Qualifications
- 5 years of overall HR experience with at least 3 years in core OD/L&D/Exec Dev roles, ideally in a fast-growing services, analytics firm, or consulting environment
- Must have led OD/L&D efforts through a significant organisational scaling journey - taking a company from roughly 50–100 people to 500–1,000+ people
- Demonstrated ability to build frameworks that are simple enough to be used and robust enough to be useful (no over-engineering or oversimplification)
- Strong instincts with people, ability to read a room, earn trust quickly, and have difficult conversations without losing the relationship
Required Skills
Org Development | L&D | Executive Development | Skill Assessment | IDP | KRA/KPI | Performance Management | Org Design | Leadership Development | AI in HR | Automation | Stakeholder Management | Communication | Framework Building | Ambiguity Tolerance
Benefits & Perks
- Opportunity to work closely with the leadership team in a trend-setting organization
- Opportunity to grow with the company as part of its early core team
- Work amongst some of the most free thinkers and driven professionals with gumption to think differently, act decisively and operate very professionally.
Organizational Development, Learning and Development, Organizational Scaling
Good-to-have skillsHR Analytics, Process Excellence, Training & Development
Skills Required
- 5 years of overall HR experience with at least 3 years in core OD/L&D/Executive Development roles
- Proven experience leading OD/L&D through significant organisational scaling (roughly 50-100 to 500-1,000+ people)
- Experience conducting skill gap assessments and creating actionable development plans (IDPs) tied to KRA/KPI frameworks
- Experience designing and running development programmes for first-time managers (feedback, coaching, people leadership)
- Ability to design simple, robust frameworks for performance management, org design, and people flagging
- Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills: ability to read a room, earn trust, and handle difficult conversations
- Organizational Development, Learning and Development, Organizational Scaling (must-have skills)
- HR Analytics (good-to-have)
- Process Excellence (good-to-have)
- Training & Development (good-to-have)
What We Do
Weekday is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps startups hire top-tier engineering and product talent. By leveraging a massive database of white-collar professionals and advanced outreach tools, the company streamlines the hiring process through automated sourcing, AI-driven resume screening, and white-glove contingency services. Their mission is to modernize recruitment by enabling companies to discover and engage passive candidates efficiently, ensuring high-quality hires for critical roles.
