HR Manager

About the Company:

OctoLife is a startup founded by serial entrepreneurs with a mission to build the world's most efficient and sustainable cooling products. In a rapidly warming world, OctoLife is on a mission to democratise access to cooling solutions to 5 billion residents of the developing world. This is one the biggest challenges facing humanity, and core to OctoLife's existence. Headquartered in Bangalore, the R&D and product development of Octolife is based out of Gurugram.

Role Summary

The HR Manager (non-technical) will be responsible for
end-to-end hiring of retail, service, and operations teams

, primarily focused on the Gurugram region. The role involves
hiring sales and store staff, retail managers, operations managers, supply chain managers, service managers, and store in-charges

, while building a strong local talent pipeline. The incumbent will also ensure smooth
screening, onboarding, and talent readiness

to support business expansion across Gurugram stores and service operations.

Key Responsibilities
1. Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Execution

• Manage the complete recruitment lifecycle for retail, service, and operations roles – from sourcing to onboarding.
• Drive
  store-level hiring

for sales executives, store in-charges, and service personnel in line with business requirements.
- Hire for leadership and support functions such as Retail Manager, Operations Manager, Supply Chain Manager, and Service Manager.
- Maintain a continuous
talent pipeline

through active sourcing, referrals, local market mapping, and partnerships with relevant talent pools.
- Manage shortlisting, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and closure processes with hiring managers.
- Ensure a positive candidate experience through timely communication and structured feedback.

2. Workforce Planning & Stakeholder Management

• Partner with business teams to understand manpower needs, store expansion plans, and role prioritization.
• Forecast manpower requirements and plan recruitment timelines accordingly.
• Collaborate closely with retail and operations leadership to ensure manpower readiness before store or service center launches.
• Maintain updated role descriptions, salary benchmarks, and competency frameworks for all critical roles.

3. Onboarding & Talent Readiness

• Support the onboarding process for new hires, ensuring documentation, induction, and cultural integration.
• Coordinate with department heads and admin for smooth joining formalities and first-week readiness.
• Maintain accurate records of new joiners, attrition, and manpower trackers for the region.

Qualifications & Experience

• Graduate; MBA in HR preferred.
• 4–8 years of experience in HR and recruitment

.
- Proven experience in
hiring store staff, service managers, and field operations roles

in the appliances, electronics, or similar retail sectors is good to have.
- Strong understanding of local retail hiring markets, compensation benchmarks, and sourcing strategies.
- Hands-on experience with recruitment and onboarding processes.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with a result-oriented approach.

You should apply if:

✓ You want to do the absolute best work in your life

✓ You want to work on a tough problem that deserves solving.

✓ You are obsessed with doing better, at everything you do.

✓ You want an environment that challenges you every day.

✓ You want to be respected in ways that truly matter.

✓ You are curious, inventive, creative, action oriented.

✓ You value fairness, meritocracy, inclusiveness.