Lead - Human Resource Business Partner

Gushwork is reinventing how businesses get discovered online. We're an agentic AI startup that helps B2B companies show up in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity - by building a content engine on websites designed to attract AI visitors alongside human visitors.

We're a US and Bengaluru-based company that's raised over $11M from top-tier global VCs including Lightspeed (backers of Anthropic, Grafana, Mistral), SIG, B Capital & Beenext. While search behavior is rapidly shifting toward AI, most B2B companies are being left behind. We're changing that.

We're at an exciting inflection point - moving fast, solving hard problems, and building technology that's becoming critical infrastructure as AI reshapes how buyers find solutions. If you want to work on challenging problems with a talented team in a high-growth environment, we'd love to meet you.

More about the role below - if you feel it's a fit, we are excited to meet you!

What You'll Do

  • Partner closely with business leaders and functional heads to drive people strategy and organizational effectiveness.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to managers on performance management, employee relations, talent development, and team effectiveness.
  • Drive workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, and talent reviews across assigned business units.
  • Support business leaders in managing employee performance, coaching conversations, promotions, and development planning.
  • Analyze people metrics and workforce trends to provide data-driven recommendations to leadership.
  • Lead and support performance management cycles, including goal setting, performance reviews, calibration discussions, and compensation planning.
  • Drive employee engagement initiatives and proactively identify opportunities to improve employee experience and retention.
  • Facilitate change management initiatives and support leaders through periods of organizational change and scale.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies, employment regulations, and HR best practices.
  • Required Experience

  • 4–8 years of experience in Human Resources in an HR Business Partner, People Partner, Strategic HR, or Employee Success Partner role.
  • Experience supporting business leaders, department heads, or functional teams in a fast-paced organization.
  • Experience managing employee relations, performance management, talent reviews, and organizational development initiatives.
  • Experience partnering with managers on employee engagement, retention, and people development programs.
  • Experience using people analytics and HR metrics to influence business and talent decisions.
  • Experience working in startup, technology, SaaS, product, internet, consulting, or high-growth business environments.
  • Experience handling sensitive employee matters with professionalism and sound judgment.
  • Qualification

  • Experience in startup, scale-up, SaaS, technology, product-led, or venture-backed organizations.
  • MBA or Postgraduate degree in Human Resources or Organizational Development.
  • Experience supporting Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, or GTM functions.
  • Exposure to compensation planning, career frameworks, and organizational design initiatives.
  • Experience driving culture-building and employee engagement programs in growing organizations.
  • Familiarity with HRIS platforms such as Darwinbox, Keka, Workday, BambooHR, SuccessFactors, or similar tools.
  • Experience working directly with founders, senior leadership teams, or business unit heads.
  • Why you will love us

  • you'll be part of an early team at a fast-growing company, with a lot of impact
  • you'll get to work with really smart and helpful people
  • we constantly adopt the latest technologies and stay close to the latest ai innovations
  • opportunity to influence the direction of the product and engineering culture
  • flexible PTO policy
  • unlimited ai usage
  • plus cool swag, a stocked pantry, and other benefits