HR Business Partner (HRBP) Location: Mumbai (on-site) · Reports to: Co-Founders · Team: Builds and leads the People function (HR + Talent Acquisition)

At Kytchens, we're democratising access to good food by partnering with the F&B brands customers love — and giving them the operational infrastructure to scale sustainably.
We are a multi-brand cloud kitchen platform (HyprKytchen FoodTech Pvt Ltd), and at our core we're an operations-and-systems business, not a food business . 30+ kitchens across Mumbai and Pune

45+ brand partners on our platform, plus our own brands like Murukku
150+ team members across our corporate and kitchen teams

We are building the largest food services network in India. If you're excited about food and about building the people engine that powers hyper-growth, we'd love to talk.

We've scaled to 30+ kitchens and 150+ people — and our next phase of growth needs more than a hiring engine, it needs a real people function. We're looking for an HR Business Partner who can own the full employee lifecycle : from the high-volume, high-speed hiring that keeps our kitchens staffed, to the performance management, employee relations, and workforce planning that keep our people function healthy as we scale. You'll be the single point of accountability for how we hire, develop, and support our people — partnering directly with founders and functional leads.

HR business partnering & employee relations

Partner with founders and functional leads as their go-to HR advisor — translating business priorities into people plans across both corporate/HQ and frontline kitchen teams
Own employee relations end-to-end: performance conversations, grievance handling, disciplinary processes, and conflict resolution — done fairly and fast
Design and run performance management cycles — goal-setting, reviews, calibration — and coach managers on giving real feedback

Policy, compliance & workforce planning

Own HR policy — leave, conduct, POSH, and other statutory/compliance requirements — and make sure it's followed on the ground, not just written down
Own people-side compliance and audits across our kitchen and corporate locations

Recruitment strategy & execution

Own the full recruitment lifecycle across both worlds — intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer, and close
Design scalable, repeatable pipelines for high-volume frontline hiring — our kitchens run on people, and frontline attrition is one of the toughest challenges in this industry
Set up sourcing channels, referral programs, structured interviews, and a hiring workflow that managers actually follow

Employer brand & candidate/employee experience

Make Kytchens a place great people want to join and stay — own our employer brand, careers presence, and candidate experience
Own onboarding end-to-end so new hires land well and ramp fast, with no handoff gap between hiring and HR

Hire, mentor, and lead a small HR + recruiting team as we grow — set the bar, the process, and the culture for how we hire and how we support our people
Own the metrics that matter across both hiring and HR: time-to-fill, offer-to-join, quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire, and frontline fill rate against attrition
• Use the data to find bottlenecks — in hiring or in the employee experience — and continuously raise the bar

6–8 years spanning HR generalist/HRBP and talent acquisition work, with real ownership of both hiring and people outcomes

Hands-on experience with high-volume/frontline hiring — ideally in food, QSR, retail, hospitality, logistics, or gig/blue-collar workforces
A solid grounding in employee relations, performance management, and Indian labour-law/compliance basics (POSH, statutory filings, etc.)
A track record of building or meaningfully improving HR or recruitment processes and systems
A data-driven, first-principles mindset — you set targets, track funnels and metrics, and act on the numbers
Strong stakeholder management across founders, functional leads, and frontline teams
A rare chance to build the entire people function — HR and recruitment — from the ground up, and own it as we scale nationally
A front-row seat to one of India's fastest-growing food platforms

If you're excited to build both the hiring engine and the people function behind one of India's fastest-growing food platforms, fill this form ( .

HR Business Partner - employee relations & compliance

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