People & Culture Director
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Hybrid
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About the role
This is a pivotal role for SmartBear's India operations, combining hands-on HRBP partnership with company-wide accountability for statutory compliance. As HRBP to your assigned function, you'll partner with senior business leaders to align People & Culture strategies with business priorities, coach leaders on talent, performance, and organizational effectiveness, and drive strategic people initiatives that build high-performing, engaged, and inclusive teams. You'll also serve as India's statutory compliance expert, owning alignment with Indian labor law across all India-based SmartBear employees including those outside your HRBP client group, regardless of function or reporting line, in partnership with our Director of Global People Operations.
What you'll bring
- 8+ years of experience in a senior People Partner or HR Business Partner role
- Demonstrated success partnering with senior leaders to develop and implement strategic People & Culture initiatives.
- Strong expertise in performance management, employee relations, and organizational effectiveness.
- Experience analyzing employee engagement data and translating insights into measurable action plans.
- Excellent communication, coaching, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- A passion for building inclusive, high-performing teams and creating exceptional employee experiences.
- Strong working knowledge of Indian labor law, statutory compliance, and HR regulatory requirements is required, given this role's company-wide compliance ownership.
- Experience working as part of a global
- A background in people operations — including HR systems, processes, and policy administration — is a plus.
- ideally within a high-growth technology environment.
- distributed People & Culture team is a plus.