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Airbound is building the world's most efficient aircraft and drone delivery systems to make goods move as freely as information. The company is scaling from 150 people and seeking an HR Business Partner to serve as the connective tissue between people and mission.
This is a first-hire role on the people-partnering side. You will design and own the entire employee lifecycle post-hire: onboarding, performance management, manager coaching, employee relations, policy design, and culture. You'll partner directly with engineering, manufacturing, operations, and business leaders to build an organization that scales without losing speed and ownership.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with leaders across engineering, manufacturing, and operations as a trusted advisor on team structure, performance, and people decisions
- Own post-hire experience: onboarding, orientation, and 30-60-90 integration to ensure new joiners ramp and retain
- Build and run performance management systems from goal setting through review cycles, calibration, and feedback
- Coach managers through difficult conversations, team gaps, and growth planning
- Own employee relations end-to-end: surface issues early, investigate fairly, resolve cleanly
- Design and roll out people policies, compensation frameworks, and compliance practices tailored for a fast-moving hardware company
- Partner on organization design and workforce planning as teams form and grow across locations
- Drive engagement, retention, and culture by maintaining a real pulse on team health
- Maintain accurate people data and documentation as the company scales
The role is in-office at Hoskote, Bangalore headquarters, working alternate Saturdays. Benefits include comprehensive health insurance, relocation assistance, daily travel stipend, and advanced salary credit.
REQUIREMENTS:
Must-have:
- 5+ years in HR business partnering, people operations, or generalist HR role, ideally in fast-paced, engineering-first hardware or manufacturing environments
- Previous experience in hardware, manufacturing, or aerospace talent landscape and what it takes to grow and retain that talent
- Sharp judgment to flag team risks and people issues in real time before they become problems
- Strong track record coaching managers and leaders, and handling employee relations with fairness and discretion
- Experience owning onboarding and post-hire ramp, and partnering cleanly with recruiting on handoff
- Experience building people processes, policies, and performance systems from scratch, not just running existing ones
- Disciplined and process-driven with bias toward clean documentation and tight operational control
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Comfortable with Google Suite, Notion, and other collaboration tools
Good to have:
- Previous experience as an early hire at a startup, building the HRBP function from nothing
