Darak Private Limited is building a multi-vertical business ecosystem across fashion, lifestyle, sports, hospitality, and consumer-facing ventures. Its current and emerging portfolio includes clothing and fashion brands, luxury streetwear, contemporary fashion, sportswear, accessories, hospitality ventures, restaurants and cafés, retail businesses, and allied lifestyle categories. Key brands under development include Darak, Andressa, SD18 Sports, IndiaQO, and other associated ventures. Fashion, Lifestyle, Sports, Hospitality and Retail company with employee size under expansion stage.
Purpose of the Role:
This is a hands-on execution role. The HR Generalist – People, Talent & Operations will lead hiring activities across business units while supporting employee onboarding, documentation, attendance management, payroll inputs, HR records, verification processes, employee coordination, policy implementation, and basic people operations.
Role Accountabilities:
Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
Manage end-to-end hiring across Darak and associated brands.
Source and coordinate candidates through LinkedIn, Naukri, Foundit, Indeed, referrals, recruitment agencies, and social outreach.
Maintain recruitment trackers and hiring pipelines.
Coordinate interviews and candidate communication.
Candidate Evaluation & Hiring Coordination
Understand hiring needs across creative and process-driven functions.
Prepare role-specific evaluation criteria.
Coordinate with hiring managers.
Assess candidates for experience, communication, cultural fit, and ownership mindset.
Maintain structured candidate databases.
Onboarding, Documentation & Verification
Manage joining formalities.
Issue offer letters, appointment letters, and employment documentation.
Conduct background verification, reference checks, educational verification, and employment verification.
HR Operations & Employee Lifecycle
Attendance tracking.
Leave management.
Payroll input coordination.
Probation tracking.
Confirmation processes.
Exit formalities.
Employee communication.
Grievance handling support.
Day-to-day people coordination.
HR Systems, Reporting & Process Building
Maintain recruitment dashboards.
Maintain HR databases and employee records.
Support implementation of HRMS systems, recruitment workflows, onboarding systems, and reporting frameworks.
Build scalable HR processes as the company grows.
Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Commerce, or related disciplines.
MBA / PGDM in HR or equivalent qualification preferred.
Experience of 4–8 years in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Coordination, and HR Operations.
Additional preference for experience in founder-led businesses, startups, growth-stage companies, and multi-business environments.
Exposure to fashion, lifestyle, sports, hospitality, retail, consumer brands, and D2C businesses will be an added advantage.
Essential Knowledge & Skills:
Recruitment, talent sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, follow-up management, LinkedIn Hiring, Naukri, Foundit, referrals, recruitment agencies, documentation, onboarding, employee records, background verification, attendance management, leave management, payroll coordination, HR administration, recruitment dashboards, ATS / HRMS tools, employment compliance, and HR policy implementation.
Personal Attributes:
Strong execution discipline, documentation accuracy, excellent communication, confidentiality, follow-through mindset, and high ownership.
Key Performance Indicators include time-to-hire, position closure rate, quality of hire, offer acceptance rate, strength of candidate pipeline, timely onboarding completion, documentation accuracy, verification completion rate, attendance and payroll accuracy, recruitment tracker maintenance, employee retention during probation, and timely HR support and process implementation.
We are looking for someone who enjoys working in a hands-on, execution-focused environment, has experience managing recruitment-heavy HR roles, has worked across multiple functions and business units, is comfortable hiring both creative and operational talent, and can support day-to-day HR processes while helping build scalable systems.
At Darak, we do not just build brands. We build a House of Virtues where fashion meets purpose, sport meets discipline, hospitality meets warmth, and business meets belief. As the company expands across fashion, lifestyle, sports, hospitality, food, retail, and beyond, this role offers an opportunity to create meaningful impact from the ground up.
