Director/AVP - HR

Overview

CloudSEK is hiring a Director/AVP - HR (Chief Happiness Officer) to own employee engagement, performance, retention and culture, building measurement and feedback systems and partnering with leadership on org design and people strategy.

What you'll do

• Build instrumentation to continuously track engagement, morale, burnout and energy levels.
• Track manager effectiveness and team health, attrition risk, regretted exits and retention of top performers.
• Track alignment to company mission, clarity of goals and execution focus.
• Turn these signals into dashboards and early-warning systems rather than once-a-year surveys.
• Design and run continuous feedback systems such as pulse surveys, 1:1 frameworks and skip-levels.
• Build clear escalation and resolution loops for friction, conflict and disengagement.
• Design manager coaching programs to improve leadership quality across the company.
• Build a clear, fair system to identify high performers and high-potential talent.
• Ensure top performers are recognized, rewarded and developed faster than the rest.
• Design retention strategies for critical talent.
• Work with leadership on promotions, growth paths and succession planning.
• Codify and reinforce cultural values through rituals, stories and behavior systems.
• Ensure culture is consistent across geographies, teams and growth stages.
• Remove incentives and behaviors that create politics, fear or low-trust environments.
• Work closely with the CEO and leadership team on org health and structure.
• Work with managers on team effectiveness and leadership quality.
• Work with HR / People Ops on compensation, performance and growth systems.

What you'll need

• 12+ years in people leadership, culture, org design or performance roles (startup / tech preferred).
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to design feedback loops, metrics and processes.
• Comfort with data, dashboards and analytics.
• Confidence influencing senior leaders and holding them accountable.
• High integrity and low ego.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Flexible working hours.