Website:
otavo.ai
Job details:
Company Description Otavo.ai is a global AI-powered platform focused on senior-level recruitment for roles ranging from $50K USD to $2M+ in compensation. Founded by serial entrepreneur Mahak Garg, a Stanford MBA and Forbes Under 30 honoree, the company builds on her experience scaling previous ventures and raising significant global venture capital. Otavo.ai currently partners with 30+ fast-growing companies worldwide to support their senior talent hiring needs. The platform maintains a curated network of 10,000+ high-performing candidates with 5–20 years of experience, including alumni from leading global business schools and professionals in senior roles across product, marketing, strategy, and more. For each opening, Otavo.ai shares a small number of pre-vetted, high-quality candidates, helping employers avoid long lists of weak matches and streamline decision-making.
Role Description
Otavo.ai is looking to hire for one of it's clients for the role of
Title: Associate Director / Director - People and Culture
Location: Bangalore
Job Type: Full-Time- Work From Office
Education preferably from TISS or XLRI
Key Responsibilities
1. Improve Talent Density
Raise the quality bar across hiring and talent decisions. Partner with business leaders on
critical leadership hiring, strengthen sourcing capabilities, and position the company as a
compelling destination for exceptional, mission-driven talent globally.
2. Build a Performance Culture
Help create clear scorecards, role expectations, feedback systems, and talent review
mechanisms that drive accountability, meritocracy, and continuous improvement across the
organization.
3. Institutionalize planning and capacity building
Introduce scalable people processes and organizational practices that enable growth without
bureaucracy. Drive initiatives across organizational design, workforce planning and capability
building to ensure the organization scales ahead of business needs.
4. Nurture People Capabilities
Help develop the next generation of leaders, with particular emphasis on first-time
managers and emerging leaders. Design interventions that strengthen managerial
effectiveness, leadership behaviours, communication, coaching, decision-making, and global
leadership capabilities.
5. Ensure that the company remains entrepreneurial, mission-driven, customer-obsessed, and highly
ownership-oriented as the company grows globally. Translate our values into everyday
behaviours, practices and employee experiences.
What We're Looking for in terms of past experience
● Experience of building and managing multiple HR disciplines, preferably in
high-growth startups or scaling organizations. We believe this might mean 4-8 years
of impactful experience but are flexible with this.
● Proven experience building and running people systems in growth stage startups - not
just operating within a large, already-well established set up. We love doers.
● Referencable , showcaseable achievements in leadership hiring, performance
management, and organizational development.
● High ownership, strong execution orientation, and comfort operating in ambiguity.
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