Aimed at mid-level HR professionals with experience in tech or product startups who can manage complex people processes and deliver data-driven insights.
Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.
Original posting from Meesho via Lever
About the Team
Our Human Resources team operates as a strategic partner to the business, focused on cultivating a high-performance culture where exceptional talent thrives. Our work is fundamentally guided by the DICE (Democratize Internet Commerce for Everyone) mission, which underpins our approach to all people strategies. Our core mandate centers on two critical pillars: driving world-class Talent Density and continuously elevating Employee Experience. We achieve this by relentlessly attracting, developing, and retaining the highest caliber of professionals, ensuring that every individual contributes significantly to our success. Concurrently, we are committed to shaping an unparalleled employee experience—one defined by transparent communication, meaningful development, and a deeply engaging, inclusive culture. As stewards of the company's most valuable asset—its people—we design, implement, and champion people strategies that directly translate into sustained business growth and a position as one of India's most sought-after e-commerce destinations.
About the Role
As Assistant Manager - HR, you will help HRBP team deliver its OKRs across Meesho's business orgs- hiring best-in-industry talent, retaining that talent by reducing attrition across talent cohorts, through both structured and individual actions, keeping talent motivated and continuously upskilled and driving the productivity of our talent
You will work closely with HRBPs, the HR CoEs (Talent Acquisition, Performance, Rewards, HR Ops etc.) and business leaders to turn people priorities into programs that work across orgs. You will make sure the team's key talent processes including talent reviews, PMS calibrations, headcount planning, pod planning, manager capability etc. are well designed, run on time, and are backed by clean data
What You Will Do:
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Shape talent brand and culture. Play an instrumental role in building the right talent brand and culture at Meesho, working closely with leaders across the company.
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Drive cyclical people processes end to end. For PMS calibration, talent reviews, succession planning and promotion cycles across the business orgs, own the timelines, data packs, readiness checks and closure.
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Enable POD ways of working. Be a key driver in embedding POD ways of working within Meesho.
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Lead special projects. Run HR projects across business orgs and Meesho to strengthen employee experience, build manager capability and raise talent density. Build reusable templates and playbooks so programs get easier to run every cycle.
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Build people dashboards and insights. Build and maintain dashboards for headcount, eNPS, attrition and other people metrics. Go beyond the numbers to understand what is driving them, and bring the right insights to discussions.
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Support org design and headcount planning. Run span-of-control, layering and people cost analyses for headcount planning cycles.
What you will need:
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Postgraduate degree in Human Resources.
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1 to 3 years of experience in a similar role, preferably in a tech organisation, product startup or other fast-paced environment.
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Problem solving: first-principles thinking to create structures and build robust processes from scratch.
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Program management: you run several workstreams at once with multiple owners, hold people to timelines without formal authority, and close loops.
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Analytics: advanced Excel or Google Sheets, comfort with large people datasets, and a knack for turning data into a crisp narrative and recommendation.
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Stakeholder management: effective with HRBPs, CoEs and business leaders, backed by strong interpersonal skills.
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A sharp eye for detail and comfort working at Lightspeed.
Source: Meesho careers (Lever)