HR Lead – Retail Full Time

About Aramya

Our vision is to build some of the world’s most loved fashion and lifestyle brands and enable people to express themselves.

We are well-funded, with $20M raised from marquee investors like Accel, Z47, and industry veterans. Launched in 2024, our flagship brand, Aramya, achieved an impressive ₹40 Cr in revenue in its very first year, powered by a proprietary supply chain, in-house manufacturing, and data-led design. We closed March 2026 at a ₹130 Cr net, ₹200 Cr ARR and today, we are hyper-scaling at a ₹400 Cr ARR across both D2C channels and retail stores.

Website: https://aramya.in/

Our Team: https://shorturl.at/l6u

About the Opportunity

Aramya is just getting started: with 14 thriving stores in Bangalore and a massive pipeline ahead, we are targeting 100 stores in the next 12–18 months. To anchor this aggressive footprint, we are hiring a Retail HR Lead.

You will own the entire lifecycle of our retail workforce. You will be the strategic and operational custodian of HR for our stores—architecting a high-velocity hiring engine, setting up seamless onboarding, managing employee relations, and driving retention policies across multiple store formats. You will partner directly with Retail Leadership to ensure our store teams embody the Aramya experience daily.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Talent Acquisition: Strategize and lead high-volume recruitment for all store-level roles (Store Managers, Cluster Managers, Fashion Consultants/Sales Staff, Visual Merchandisers, Support Staff.
• High-Velocity Scalability: Build a predictable hiring engine utilising walk-ins, localized sourcing, agency partnerships, and referrals to drastically reduce Time-to-Hire (TAT) as we scale to 100+ stores.
• HR Operations & Onboarding: Oversee the smooth onboarding, compliance, biometric/attendance systems, and payroll inputs for all frontline retail staff.
• Employee Relations & Compliance: Manage store-level employee relations, grievance redressal, and ensure strict adherence to local retail labor laws and shop establishment acts.
• Retention & Performance Management: Design and implement localised engagement initiatives, incentive structures, and performance assessment cycles to curb the high attrition native to retail operations.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the primary HR business partner to the Head of Retail Ops and Cluster Managers, aligning manpower planning with store launch timelines.

Key Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of total HR experience, with at least 5+ years dedicated to Retail HR (handling both hiring and store HR operations.
• Past experience in Fashion/Apparel Retail or high-growth lifestyle D2C brands is highly preferred (Good to have).
• A proven track record of managing frontline, blue-collar, or grey-collar workforce scale (understanding what drives them, how to evaluate them, and how to retain them).
• Exceptional ownership and the ability to build processes from scratch in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
• Deep knowledge of retail dynamics, high-volume recruitment metrics (offer-to-join ratios, cost-per-hire), and retail labor compliance.