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ixigo, India's leading travel tech platform, is seeking a Group AVP of People & Culture to architect the next phase of organizational growth across its portfolio of brands (ixigo, ConfirmTkt, AbhiBus) and geographies. This is a strategic, non-traditional HR leadership role reporting to founders and C-suite.
You will own the complete people function for a listed company, spanning strategy, culture, talent, total rewards, compliance, and operations. Key responsibilities include:
**Strategy & Business Partnership:** Set and execute group-wide people strategy aligned with business goals. Partner with founders, CxOs, and business heads on org design, workforce planning, compensation, incentives, and change management. Lead HR business partners and line-of-business HR leaders. Own cultural integration and process harmonization across M&A.
**Culture & Employee Experience:** Build an empathetic, high-performance culture with clear feedback and decision-making norms. Run continuous listening mechanisms (pulse checks, skip-levels, feedback loops) and act on insights to maintain measurable satisfaction and engagement. Strengthen culture across acquisitions without diluting individual business identities.
**Talent & Development:** Own the full employee lifecycle from sourcing and hiring through onboarding, performance management, career development, and succession planning. Design L&D programs that build critical skills and prepare leaders for scale.
**Total Rewards & Retention:** Design competitive compensation and benefits frameworks (including ESOP/RSU structures for a listed entity) that attract and retain talent, especially in high-demand tech roles. Reduce attrition through targeted programs, recognition, and manager enablement.
**AI, Data & HR Operations:** Embed AI across the employee lifecycle (sourcing, screening, performance insights, employee support, HR operations) with clear guardrails on human judgment. Use HR data to drive decisions on attrition risk, comp benchmarking, workforce planning, and program ROI. Own the HRIS stack and its evolution.
**Compliance, Admin & Offices:** Own regulatory compliance across labor laws and local regulations. Drive admin teams to maintain smooth office operations and global standards on employee experience.
**Team Leadership:** Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing HR team across the group. Build a diverse and inclusive workplace.
**Requirements:**
- 14+ years of HR leadership experience in high-growth internet, e-commerce, or tech companies
- Exposure to acquisition integration, going public, or scaling to 500+ employees
- Track record of setting and executing people strategy that measurably moved business outcomes
- Experience leading M&A people integration across acquired entities
- Business partnering credibility with CxOs, product, and engineering leaders
- Total rewards fluency for a listed company, including ESOPs, comp bands, and board compensation committee inputs
- Hands-on fluency with AI tools for HR (LLM-based sourcing, resume screening, sentiment analysis, agentic workflows) and clear perspective on value and limitations
- Strong analytics capabilities: comfort with HR data for attrition modeling, comp benchmarking, and workforce planning
- Experience owning modern HRIS platforms end-to-end, including implementation or migration
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with ability to build trust at all levels
- Strategic mindset with bias for action and comfort operating in ambiguity
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
- Technical literacy and comfort partnering with engineering leaders (preferred)
