HR Generalist

Meet Flent 👋🏼

Renting in India can be a nightmare. Think about it: visiting countless houses, arguing over rent, losing money to brokers, sticking to 11-month contracts, and spending lakhs of rupees into furnishing. It's a lot, and honestly, we deserve better.

This is where Flent comes in. We're creating a new standard of urban renting for India.

Now imagine walking into a home that feels like it’s straight out of a lifestyle magazine - fully furnished, beautifully staged, all you need to bring is your clothes and your vibe. No need to persuade landlords, no dealing with brokers, and no 11-month lock-ins. It’s not just a vision; it’s what we believe the top 1% in India truly deserves.

We started Flent because we were fed up. Trying to find a decent place in the city was a nightmare. But beyond the frustration was a deep-seated passion for home decor and an eye for detail that we couldn't ignore. Numbers revealed that ~$10 Bn is spent annually on urban renting — and that was the tipping point. It convinced us of the potential to craft the future of renting, designed for those who demand more and compromise less.

Flent is backed by top-tier VCs and angels. Since our inception in Jan’24, we’ve launched 100+ homes in Bangalore, went viral on X more than we imagined, and crossed $1,000,000 in annual GMV.

About The Role

As our first People & Culture hire at Flent, you're setting the tone for the kind of company we want to build — not just the one we are today. You’ll own everything from hiring our next 25 teammates to shaping how it feels to work here. We’re growing fast, and this role is crucial to ensuring that we scale intentionally — with the right people, the right values, and the right systems.

This is a high-ownership role. You’ll work directly with the founders. We’re looking for someone who can think like a founder when it comes to people: someone who gets excited about building culture, process, and talent infrastructure from scratch, and who thrives in fast-paced, messy, ambitious environments.

What you’ll broadly do:

Build and run our talent engine

Own the entire hiring process — from role scoping and JD writing to sourcing strategy, interview design, and candidate experience. You’ll work closely with founders to forecast needs, define what great looks like for each role, and bring in the kind of people who raise the bar.

Codify our culture and help it come alive

Today, our values live in Notion pages, Slack messages, and founder 1:1s. You’ll help turn that implicit culture into something shared, lived, and reinforced — through rituals, onboarding, team practices, and hiring criteria.

Run people operations with structure and care

Build and maintain systems for onboarding, payroll, reimbursements, benefits, compliance, and internal policies. Ensure these processes are clear, scalable, and easy to navigate for the team.

Design and run our upskilling & learning programs

Whether it's founder training, access to learning budgets, speaker sessions, or peer learning — you’ll be responsible for helping Flent employees grow faster than the company. You’ll figure out what people need, design systems to deliver it, and make learning a core part of our culture.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Create, manage, and continuously refine our hiring process — including job descriptions, interview plans, sourcing channels, and candidate experience.
• Collaborate closely with founders to align hiring with company goals and values.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline across functions — using a mix of inbound, outbound, and network strategies.
• Lead onboarding to ensure every new hire feels like they belong on Day 1.
• Review and iterate on our benefits and perks — be creative, be generous, and keep an eye on what truly matters to the team.
• Process payroll, reimbursements, compliance, and create policies as and when required.
• Run internal and external programs to fill learning gaps across the org.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has 3–6 years of experience across People Ops, HR, or Talent Acquisition — ideally in fast-growing startups or high-ownership environments.
• Has built (or rebuilt) hiring processes from scratch and knows what great talent looks like across multiple functions.
• Deeply cares about culture and can translate values into action — not just words on a wall.
• Is organized, process-driven, and can juggle multiple moving pieces without dropping the ball.
• Is a strong communicator who can handle hard conversations with empathy and clarity.
• Understands that "HR" isn't about control — it’s about enabling people to do the best work of their lives.
• Is excited to take ownership and build something foundational at a company on the rise.

Educational qualifications don’t matter to us at Flent. What does is your curiosity, your bias for action, and your ability to think deeply about people and systems. If you want to help build a world-class team and a culture worth fighting for — we’d love to talk.