HR Executive

Role: HR Executive
Job Location: Kanjurmarg, Central Mumbai
Head Office: Marine Drive, South Mumbai
Operational Office: Kanjurmarg, Central Mumbai
Who are we?
Design First delivers personalized luxury interior and furniture design to India's discerning
homeowners and corporates. Led by prolific, seasoned luxury brand builders, internationally
trained designers, world-class professionals and passionate, steadfast teams of turnkey
project execution specialists. We seek excellence in design and are committed to bringing
back trust and excitement in the design process.
To know more about us, visit and
We are a lean team of high performing go-getters who take ownership of their roles in the
organization. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture, and we
encourage people to bring unique perspectives to the conversations. Most importantly, we
love solving problems.
If you think you're cut out from a similar cloth, we'd encourage you to apply for this role.
What would you be required to do?

• Ensure all job descriptions are as per business requirements and there is role parity in
the organization chart in terms of role redundancy, overlapping, gender and cost
alignment

• Understand job specifications from hiring managers, discuss with Department Heads,
and secure approvals before initiating recruitment.

• Maintain hygiene factors such as job descriptions, job specifications, KPIs, candidate
information forms, feedback forms, reference check forms, and daily/weekly/monthly
reports.

• Strategize recruitment channels for each role and justify associated costs.

• Maintain and share weekly recruitment dashboards highlighting process efficiency
with all internal stakeholders.

• Report daily on CVs received, shortlisted, rejected, and in interviews, role-wise, to
Department Heads, analyze ratios and refine recruitment strategy accordingly.

• Track employees on notice periods and proactively plan replacement hiring.

• Build a proactive talent pipeline for high attrition roles.

• Create a campus hiring strategy and interaction all year round

• Provide market insights and recommend solutions to address talent challenges
proactively.

• Identify, onboard and manage recruitment consultants and agencies for optimal
outcomes.

• Prepare and share monthly recruitment and HR reports with internal stakeholders.

• Manage HR operational trackers including Mediclaim claims, attendance, and leave
records for payroll processing.

• Support HR operations, employee engagement initiatives, and ad hoc projects as
needed.

• Ensure seamless onboarding experience for all new hires.
Skills needed:

• An uncompromising passion for problem solving

• Preferably a recruitment consultant with experience of 3+ years in recruiting

• Someone who enjoys talking to people and scanning through cv's all-day

• Hard core recruiting experience in IT (50%) as well as Non-IT (50%) roles

• Strong communication, interpersonal, negotiation skills and efficient in stakeholder
management

• Attention to detail

• Able to handle ad hoc work without stress
Qualifications:

• MBA in HR or related field with 3+ years of experience,
OR

• At least 5 years of HR work experience (Start-up experience a plus)
OR

• The fact that this role and our organization excites you and you think you will be a
good fit
Work Timings:

• Monday to Friday: 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM

• Saturday: 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM (Half Day)