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title: 'People Lead (Talent Acquisition & HR) at Weekday'
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# People Lead (Talent Acquisition & HR) at Weekday

- **Company:** Weekday
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/weekdayworks/f31c0628-5f97-4cfc-b351-acb9e3f77ef4

## Job description

This is an internal role at Weekday. Not a role by a client.

- Role type: Full time
- Location: Remote and/or Bangalore
- Working days: Monday–Saturday
- Working with: Founders (mostly CEO & COO)

Weekday is an AI-native recruiting platform. We are backed by Y Combinator and Venture Highway (now General Catalyst). We have built the largest white-collar talent database in India and have built tools to run outbound recruiting campaigns to them.

## About the role

We're a recruiting company. That means the bar for how we hire our own team is higher, not lower. If our own hiring is slow or sloppy, we have no business selling hiring to anyone else.

This role owns both halves of people at Weekday: bringing the right people in, and building the place they want to stay. Roughly half your time goes into talent acquisition — planning hiring with the founders, running pipelines, closing senior candidates. The other half goes into HR — policies, performance, compensation, engagement, compliance — for a team of around 50–70 people that keeps growing.

There is no HR department waiting for you. There is some process, some of it good, much of it built on the fly. You'll decide what to keep, what to fix, and what to build from scratch. You'll do the work yourself before you hire anyone to do it for you.

## What you'll actually do

On any given day you might be:

- Working with the founders on the hiring plan and owning it: which roles, in what order, at what bar
- Running senior and hard-to-fill hires yourself — sourcing on the Weekday platform, pitching, closing, negotiating
- Setting up the hiring machine: scorecards, interview loops, work trials, and a candidate experience we'd be proud to show customers
- Designing and running performance reviews, goal-setting, and feedback cycles that people actually take seriously
- Building the basics properly: policies, compensation bands, leave, payroll, and labour-law compliance
- Owning onboarding, engagement, and retention — and reading attrition data honestly, including the ugly numbers
- Being the person the team trusts with hard conversations — conflicts, underperformance, exits

You'll be measured on whether things got done — well, and on time. Not on slides.

## Who you are

- 2–5 years across talent acquisition and HR. You've been the first or second people hire somewhere, or you've built people ops at a startup that was scaling fast.
- You've recruited hands-on and closed senior hires yourself — not just managed agencies.
- You have strong judgment on people. You can tell a good hire from a good interviewer.
- You're a builder, not a policy-keeper. You write the process when there isn't one, and you cut it when it stops helping.
- You communicate directly — no padding, no spin — and you can say no to a founder when it's the right call.
- You know Indian labour law and payroll basics well enough to keep us compliant without a consultant on speed dial.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and a Monday–Saturday pace.

## Nice to have

- Experience at a recruiting, HR-tech, or staffing company
- Comfort with tools like Airtable, Slack, Notion, or an HRMS - and a habit of automating repetitive work

## What you get

- Full ownership of people function at a profitable, venture-backed startup - the culture you build is the one that sticks
- Direct partnership with the founders on every hiring and people decision
- India's largest white-collar talent database and our outbound tools, for your own hiring
- A front-row seat to how a company scales, and the chance to build the team that does it

## About Weekday

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Weekday is an AI-powered recruiting platform that automates outbound sourcing campaigns to help companies hire top technical talent.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $2.2M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Amit Singh (CEO & Co-founder), Chetan Dalal (CPO & Co-founder), Anubhav Malik (CTO & Co-founder), Sanjay Sivaraman (COO) [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/our-story)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Human Resources Services / AI-powered recruiting
- **Target Customers**: B2B; seed-stage startups to enterprises hiring for engineering and technical roles
- **Mission / Purpose**: "Make hiring more human" by using AI to handle repetitive tasks, giving recruiters more time for meaningful interactions [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/our-story)

## Products & Services
- **AI Recruiter (Outbound Sourcing Campaigns)**: Fully managed service that discovers, reaches out to, and pre-vets passive candidates via email, WhatsApp, and phone. Achieves 30–50% response rates (3–5x industry baseline). [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **AI People Search & Database Access**: Subscription model providing direct access to a verified database of 300M+ professionals across the US and India (covers ~80% of Indian white-collar workforce). Includes AI smart filters, AI-drafted outreach, and multi-channel automation. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **Free Candidate Tools**: AI auto-apply, resume builder, ATS resume scorer, company salary data, and culture reviews. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **Chrome Extension & 20+ API Integrations**: Fits into existing workflows and data pipelines. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $2.2M (seed rounds); 5M currently active users in their marketplace [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/our-story)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Y Combinator (W21), Venture Highway (led latest seed round) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 108 employees (+58.1% YoY) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
  - LinkedIn followers: 576,069 (+84.5% YoY) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
  - Active job postings: 87 (monthly growth +61.1%) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
  - Ranked #1 on Product Hunt [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/our-story)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive Verified Database**: 300M+ professionals with verified work history and contact data, covering ~80% of the Indian white-collar workforce – a unique asset for passive candidate sourcing. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **Multi-Channel Outreach**: Combines email, WhatsApp, and phone – channels that outperform inbound-only hiring, especially for passive talent (70% of workforce). [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **High Response Rates**: Consistently 30–50% (vs. industry baseline <15%), driven by mutual-fit matching and persistent follow-up. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **Pre-Vetted Candidates**: Delivers candidates who have been matched, screened, and confirmed interested before reaching the hiring team. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand Technical Hiring Dominance**: Purpose-built for engineering roles, serving companies like CRED, Enterpret, and Utopia Labs. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **Dual Engagement Models**: Contingency (white-glove, 15% of salary) and Subscription (database + outreach credits) to serve both small teams and in-house recruiting departments. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
- **Continued AI Investment**: AI-driven candidate discovery, messaging optimization, and resume screening remain core differentiators.

## Why Work Here
- **Fast-Growing YC Startup**: Y Combinator (W21) backing, strong headcount and follower growth, and high demand for technical hiring solutions.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Workforce distributed across 6 countries (India, US, UK, Qatar, Thailand, Spain); offices in San Francisco and Bengaluru. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
- **Engineering & Product Culture**: Founders include CTO Anubhav Malik; technical roles are central to the product (Backend, Data Engineering, QA). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
- **Active Hiring**: 87 open positions across sales, engineering, operations, and more – strong signal of growth and opportunity. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
- **Impactful Mission**: Using AI to eliminate recruiter drudgery and increase human connection in hiring.

## Sources
1. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/weekdayworks)
2. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/our-story)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weekdayworks)
4. [weekday.works](https://www.weekday.works/faq)
5. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/)

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