What Do We Do
ShopDeck helps e-commerce merchants set up and manage their D2C storefront profitably.
Proposition For Merchants
D2C selling made as easy as selling on marketplaces like Amazon, Flipkart or Myntra/
Why Build This
- India's D2C wave has been limited to venture-funded D2C brands today
- The art of selling on your own website is not democratised. There are 500k-1M sellers who can sell D2C but can at best sell on marketplaces
- Philosophically - we feel brand owners should spend most of their time on the product and not on channel optimization
- Shopify / Status-quo software solve for work-flow management of storefront but don't do enough on helping merchants sell well!
Team And Scale
We're at $8M ARR and had hit profitability earlier in the year. We've recently raised series-B from led by Bessemer Venture Partners (who had famously led Series A for Shopify in 2010) with participation from Elevation Capital, General Catalyst (fka Venture Highway) and Chiratae Ventures.
HR Strategy Intern :-
Role Overview
Location: Bengaluru | In-office
Duration: 3–6 months
Team: HR / People Strategy
About The Role
We are looking for a high-ownership HR Strategy Intern who wants to work closely with the HR team on building scalable people systems for a fast-growing startup.
This is not a routine HR internship. You will get exposure to performance management, culture-building, HR automation, employee engagement, manager enablement, and HRBP execution. The role is ideal for someone who is structured, analytical, execution-focused, and eager to learn how high-impact HR systems are built from scratch.
Performance & Growth
You will support the HR team in building and improving performance management systems across the company.
- Creating and maintaining performance scorecards, review trackers, calibration inputs, and performance cycle documentation.
- Supporting career pathing work across functions, including IC and Manager tracks.
- Helping define role expectations, competency frameworks, level definitions, and promotion criteria.
- Assisting in performance fairness checks through data, documentation, and calibration support.
- Supporting the design and execution of Reward & Recognition frameworks linked to company values and business outcomes.
Preparing manager toolkits, communication drafts, review templates, and performance enablement material.
Culture & Values
You will help convert company values into practical, observable behaviors that teams can understand and apply.
- Translating company values into simple behavior definitions and examples.
- Supporting culture rituals such as onboarding sessions, manager rituals, recognition moments, and employee engagement programs.
- Helping maintain the Employee Handbook, culture playbooks, and HR communication material.
- Supporting initiatives that improve adoption of people practices across teams.
Creating simple, engaging content to make HR policies, values, and rituals easier to understand.
AI-led HR Ops & Automation
You will support HR Ops automation and process improvement projects.
- Mapping HR processes such as letters, approvals, onboarding, offboarding, policy queries, FAQs, and recurring reports.
- Identifying manual work that can be automated using tools, workflows, templates, trackers, and AI.
- Supporting the creation of SOPs, dashboards, SLA trackers, and process documentation.
- Helping improve HRIS hygiene, employee data accuracy, and recurring HR reporting.
Working with the HR team to make HR Ops more process-first, automation-first, and scalable.
HRBP Execution & Change Management
You will support HRBPs in driving adoption of key people initiatives across teams.
- Helping managers understand and use new HR frameworks, templates, and processes.
- Supporting employee communication, training material, and enablement sessions.
- Preparing people dashboards, org insights, and review notes for leadership discussions.
- Assisting in tracking people risks, engagement inputs, manager feedback, and action items.
- Supporting change management for new HR initiatives across pods and functions.
What We Are Looking For
Must Have
- Hunger to learn, take ownership, and work in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
- Good comfort with Excel/Google Sheets, documentation, and structured thinking.
- Ability to convert ambiguous problems into simple trackers, templates, and action plans.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- High attention to detail and follow-through.
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and build trust across teams.
Preferred
- MBA/PGDM student or recent graduate with specialization in HR, Organizational Behaviour, Strategy, or related fields.
- Prior internship or project experience in HR, consulting, startups, people analytics, L&D, or HR operations.
- Interest in AI-led automation, people analytics, culture-building, and performance management.
What You Will Learn
- How performance management systems are designed and run in a high-growth company.
- How to build scalable HR processes, dashboards, SOPs, and operating rhythms.
- How HR partners with business leaders on performance, culture, org design, and people risks.
- How to use data, automation, and structured thinking to solve real HR problems.
- How startup HR works beyond routine operations.
Note: This is a paid internship.Skills: hr operations,advanced excel skills,hr strategy
