Play Games24x7 - Head - Human Resource

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Head of HR at Games24x7

We believe that amazing companies are built by amazing teams. Your key objective will be to further build and nurture an already stellar team. Since the team's caliber determines the company's success in our view, your contributions in us having the right team will be instrumental in our success.

As the Head of HR at Games24x7, you will be entrusted with two major tasks:

- Talent acquisition with focus on our core values and traits

- Instilling a culture within the team which promotes continuous growth for both, individual and company

As the right person for this job, you are a strategic thinker who understands that great companies require the intersection of great ideas, talented people and a unifying culture. You understand what it means to build a modern and vibrant work culture that will attract and retain the best in the world. You thrive on interacting with people on a regular basis and of course, have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. You have an innate desire to touch people's lives in meaningful ways and genuinely care about providing an excellent working environment aimed at helping people grow. You are able to deal with and address tough situations, particularly those where there is conflict of interest between individual and organization. It goes without saying that you are empathetic, a good listener, approachable and most importantly trustworthy. You possess an uncanny ability to read people and therefore are an excellent judge of character. You are enthusiastic about coaching and mentoring people irrespective of their age or accomplishments. You are assertive, not aggressive and are therefore able to have fierce conversations with great respect.

In addition to the above, you have clarity of thought and are always true to your objectives, you effectively manage your time, you are analytical in your problem-solving approach, you make decisions based on data while giving your intuition its due importance and you have a keen eye for detail. Last but certainly not the least, you set the highest standards for yourself, thus always leading from the front and have a very good sense of humor, both of which are very critical to your success as the Head of HR at Games24x7.

Job Requirements

- Understand the business and its core operating culture, and tailor all recruitment and retention strategy to driving and promoting that culture.

- Build the Games24x7 brand into one of the most attractive places to work for the best in the country.

- Manage end to end recruitment of candidates across levels preferably from internet/ecommerce/ IT product organizations

- Manage the Administration function at Games24x7.

- Engage new comers by showing them that Games24x7 is the right place for them to grow

- Responsible for the employees- performance review process and subsequent appraisals

- Work closely with all teams to understand pain points/grievances from an HR (work environment and culture) perspective and genuinely address them both efficiently and effectively

- Develop and implement policies, programs and processes which make the work environment at Games24x7 conducive to providing awesome game playing experiences

- Work with key stakeholders and devise learning, development and training programs to build a culture of continuous growth

- Plan and execute fun events and engagement activities

Our Expectations

- You have at least 12 to 15 years of experience in an HR leadership role with broad knowledge and experience in all aspects of managing human resources

- You can deliver results given broad directives

- You innovate and take risks by coming out of your comfort zone

- You are a natural orator, eloquent in speech/addressing a public forum

- You have a positive and pro-active attitude with the willingness to deliver quickly

- You can present issues, ideas and recommendations clearly through verbal or written communication

- You can think like a business leader and influence decision making at various levels of the organization

- You work independently and multitask in a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment

- You are always willing to jump right in by taking a hands-on approach to address issues or complete tasks

Location: Mumbai (Malad)

Introduction

Games24x7 is the first online company to bring games of skill with cash prizes to the large, yet underserved Indian market in a fun, lighthearted and friendly setting. India's rich history and culture of games and the rapid growth of the Internet has presented us with a unique opportunity - the opportunity to bring to people across India games they have always loved and enjoyed, but don- t necessarily find the time or the friends to play with anymore. Competition, the joy of success and social connectivity form the backbone of our product. We kicked off this ambitious journey in 2009 with India's most popular card game - Rummy. Today, we are India's largest online rummy site (www.rummycircle.com) and millions of players visit us every month to play for free and for cash prizes. We are funded jointly by international venture capitalists and a hedge fund that has made significant investments in the past in some of the most successful Internet companies in India.

The Games24x7 Ethos

At Games24x7, we are passionate about one and only one thing - providing the best possible playing experience to our players. We take immense pride in our work and believe that the best way to serve our players is by listening to them. We listen to the sound of every click that our players make or don- t make when they are with us. We believe very strongly in experimenting, but in the true spirit of experiments, we insist that every new idea be either backed by data or be eventually provable by data.

Every experiment has at its genesis an idea. The Games24x7 idea hierarchy is flat and new ideas can come from anywhere, but every idea goes through the same process - vigorous debate, arguments, data validation, and every so often, from this grueling yet immensely satisfying process comes one addition to our product, operating or marketing strategy. This is the essence of life at Games24x7.

The Games24x7 Business

The Games24x7 business is powered by a proprietary multi-player tournament gaming platform built by our talented and passionate Mumbai-based development team. We are not to be confused with a game studio or a game development company. Games24x7 is not in the business of making or developing online games. Our gaming platform is secure, scalable, extensible and is at the heart of our business, supporting all aspects of the business operations. It is developed using JAVA and J2EE technologies. We currently host online multiplayer Rummy with entry fees and cash prizes using the proprietary platform. Despite the platform being feature rich in terms of its offering, we have barely scratched the surface.

The plan is to build a state of the art gaming tournament platform into which games of all types can be seamlessly integrated from single player leader-board type games to multiplayer knock out tournaments, round robin tournaments etc. This multifaceted platform will also incorporate social features, and could easily be integrated with Facebook and other social networks. We have the makings of what will be an industry-changing product in our hands. We are confident that the gaming industry in India will be seen as pre-Games24x7 platform and post-Games24x7 platform by analysts in the future. We will continue to invest to incorporate new innovations and capabilities into the core platform to ensure that our players receive a world-class experience.

Our team comprises of people from all facets of business - technology, marketing, product design, data science, operations, legal and finance and of course administration and human resources. The technology team is the largest with every second person being in the technology team followed by sizeable operations and marketing teams. Most people at Games24x7 are in their mid-twenties to early thirties.

The Games24x7 Team Member

If you have boundless energy, are bubbling with bright ideas, are extremely hard working and have no problems taking a hands-on approach to your work, we are the right destination for you. While we value tremendously problem solving skills, we value even more problem finding skills. People who have risen the fastest in our company are those that have a keen eye for detecting critical business problems and then solving them. The Games24x7 work atmosphere is very amiable, and at the same time always charged with excitement. The dynamic nature of our business ensures that all our team members are able to see how their contributions benefit the business. We encourage our team members to take responsibility and grow into future leaders in our company and the industry.