The Wise Idiot
Website:
thewiseidiot.in
Job details:
HR Generalist (Solo HR Owner)
Company: The Wise Idiot, Marketing & Creative Agency
Location: Mumbai / Hybrid / Remote
Reports to: Co-Founder
Experience: 1 to 3 years, ideally in an agency or startup environment
About the Role
We're a growing creative agency (1 to 100 stage), and you'll be our first dedicated HR hire. You'll own the entire people function end-to-end, from hiring designers and strategists to keeping payroll clean and culture strong. You'll work directly with the founders and touch every part of the employee lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Recruitment & onboarding: Own the full hiring cycle: write JDs, source candidates (especially creative and client-servicing roles), screen, coordinate interviews, negotiate offers, and run structured onboarding so new joiners are productive fast.
- Payroll, compliance & documentation: Run monthly payroll inputs, manage leave and attendance, maintain employee records, contracts, and statutory compliance (PF, ESI, gratuity, POSH, labour law filings).
- Performance management: Set up and run lightweight review cycles, help team leads define KPIs, and manage appraisals, increments, and promotion documentation.
- Employee engagement & culture: Plan engagement initiatives, celebrations, offsites, and feedback loops (pulse surveys, 1:1s). Act as the trusted first point of contact for employee concerns and grievances.
- Retention & attrition management: Track attrition, run stay/exit interviews, and flag flight risks early. This is critical in agencies where talent churn is high and client relationships walk out the door with people.
- Policies & processes: Draft and maintain the employee handbook, leave policy, WFH policy, and code of conduct. Build scalable HR processes as headcount grows.
- HR operations & reporting: Manage HRMS/tools and vendor relationships (insurance, recruiters, payroll software). Give founders monthly dashboards on headcount, hiring pipeline, costs, and attrition.
What We're Looking For
- 1 to 3 years as an HR generalist, preferably in an agency, startup, or services firm
- Comfortable being a one-person HR team: hands-on, scrappy, unafraid of ambiguity
- Working knowledge of Indian labour law and statutory compliance
- Strong interpersonal skills; can hold trust with both founders and junior staff
- Experience with any HRMS (RazorpayX, etc.) is a plus
CompensationRs 3,00,000 - Rs 3,60,000 per annum
To apply, send your resume to career@thewiseidiot.in
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