Own People and HR end to end. Hiring, performance, HR ops and compliance, compensation and ESOPs, and the culture that holds while the company scales.
Tech
Full Time
Hyderabad
Onsite
3-5 years
As per previous CTC
About Cheerio AI
Cheerio AI is a profitable, VC-backed AI automation company building intelligent products for large enterprises. We are backed by Artha VC and by operators and founders from Unacademy, Reddit, Elevation Capital and Dr Vaidya’s, and we serve VFS Global, IndusInd Bank, Meta and Hero MotoCorp. Over the last two years our valuation has grown 5X, which makes ESOP ownership here a real path to financial upside rather than a line on an offer letter.
Role overview
This is not a keep HR running role. You will build the people function at Cheerio AI as we scale, and own it end to end.
You will work directly with the founders on how we hire, how we pay, how we measure performance, and what kind of company this is to work at. There is no playbook waiting for you here, and nobody above you to write one.
Key responsibilities
Hiring and team building across every function, from the role brief through to the offer.
Performance management: the review cycle, the ratings conversation, and the follow-through that makes it mean something.
HR operations and compliance, including payroll inputs, policy, statutory requirements and the HRMS.
Compensation, rewards and ESOPs, including bands, benchmarking and how equity is explained to candidates.
Building a high-performance culture: onboarding, rituals, feedback and the standard the team holds itself to.
What we are looking for
3-5 years of HR experience at a startup, not only at a large company with a mature function.
Hands-on. You write the job description, run the interview loop and fix the payroll error yourself.
Strong judgement. You can make a call on a people situation without a policy document to point at.
Experience with IT or product recruitment, and comfort with an HRMS and a performance management system.
The appetite to build a function rather than maintain one.