HR Business Partner - IT

What You'll Do: Hiring and onboarding: - Partner with hiring managers across teams to define roles, run hiring pipelines, and close candidates efficiently. - Own the onboarding experience end-to-end, ensuring new hires integrate well and ramp quickly. - Maintain a structured view of open roles, pipeline health, and hiring velocity across the company. Employee relations and People operations: - Be the first point of contact for employees and managers on people matters, from day-to-day questions to sensitive situations. - Handle grievances, disciplinary processes, and conflict resolution with fairness, discretion, and good judgment. - Ensure the company's people practices are compliant with applicable labour laws and regulations. - Own HR documentation, including offer letters, contracts, policies, and the employee handbook. Performance and development: - Design and run performance review cycles in partnership with leadership, covering goal setting, mid-year check-ins, and annual reviews. - Support managers on performance improvement plans, promotions, and compensation discussions. - Identify development needs across the team and work with managers to address them. Culture and engagement: - Champion a strong, inclusive team culture as the company scales, running engagement initiatives that reflect where the company is at each stage. - Track early signals of disengagement or attrition and address them proactively. - Conduct exit interviews and translate patterns into actionable recommendations for leadership. HR operations and strategy: - Build and maintain HR processes, SOPs, and systems that scale with the business without creating unnecessary overhead. - Provide leadership with data and insights on headcount, attrition, hiring, and team health. - Partner with finance and legal on payroll, compliance, and people-related operational matters. Who You Are: - 3-5 years of experience in an HR generalist or HRBP role, ideally with exposure to a fast-growing startup or technology company. - Comfortable owning the full HR function independently you don't need a large team or established playbook to operate well. - Strong instincts for people situations you're empathetic, discreet, and exercise sound judgment in sensitive cases. - Organised and process-oriented you can hold hiring pipelines, review cycles, and employee cases in parallel without dropping the ball. - A credible partner to senior stakeholders you can hold your own in conversations with founders, business heads, and external candidates alike. - Clear communicator, written and verbal, across a range of audiences and contexts. - Familiarity with Indian labour law and HR compliance fundamentals. - Prior experience in fintech, financial services, or a regulated industry is a plus.