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Sarvam AI
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights
- 5–8 years of HR experience required (minimum 4 years in HRBP/People Ops role).
- Hands‑on HRMS/HRIS implementation experience is strongly preferred.
- Full‑time position based in Bengaluru.
- High‑impact, high‑agency role shaping HR strategy and systems at a fast‑scaling AI company.
- Opportunity to work on mission‑driven AI initiatives with leading enterprises and public institutions.
- Startup/scale‑up environment offering fast‑paced growth and autonomy.
Role overview
Sarvam is building India’s full‑stack sovereign AI platform and seeks an HR Business Partner & People Operations leader to partner strategically with business leaders while managing the operational backbone of HR. The role blends high‑ownership advisory work on organization design, performance, and culture with hands‑on execution of HR processes, systems, and compliance in a fast‑growing, tech‑first environment.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with business and function leaders to understand their goals and translate them into HR strategies and structures that support scale.
- Advise on organizational design, performance management, and career development as teams grow.
- Act as a trusted advisor and change agent through periods of organizational transformation and rapid growth.
- Address employee relations matters, lead investigations where needed, and resolve conflicts fairly and swiftly.
- Own and continuously improve core HR processes across the employee lifecycle — onboarding, performance cycles, transfers, and exits.
- Identify, evaluate, and implement HRMS tools for employee data, compensation, and performance management, ensuring the stack scales cleanly with headcount growth.
- Ensure HR policies, labor law compliance, and documentation are current, consistent, and audit‑ready.
- Support compensation and benefits administration, including data accuracy, benchmarking inputs, and cycle execution.
- Maintain and improve HR systems, dashboards, and reporting to give leadership clean, timely people data.
- Support talent acquisition through workforce planning inputs and candidate evaluation where needed.
- Drive employee engagement, retention, and development initiatives that fit a fast paced, high‑growth, tech‑first environment.
- Champion a high performance, high trust culture aligned with Sarvam's mission and pace.
Requirements
- Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 5–8 years of HR experience, with at least 4 years in an HRBP, People Operations, or similar generalist role.
- Strong grounding in HR compliance, and process design.
- Comfortable owning both strategic conversations with leaders and the operational details that make HR systems and processes work reliably.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem‑solving skills.
Nice to have
- Hands‑on experience in implementing HRMS/HRIS platforms (e.g., Darwinbox, Keka, Rippling, Lattice or similar) is strongly preferred.
- Thrives in a fast paced, high growth, ambiguity tolerant environment: startup or scale‑up experience is a plus.
Additional details
- Job Title: HR Business Partner (HRBP) & People Ops
- Location: Bengaluru
- Employment Type: Fulltime
- About Sarvam: Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India, developing a full‑stack sovereign AI platform across research, models, infrastructure and applications, backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures, and partnering with leading Indian brands such as Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC.
- Why Sarvam?: Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar; high impact, high agency role shaping HR strategy and systems from the ground up at a fast scaling AI company; be part of a mission‑driven team building India's sovereign AI stack with exposure to a wide range of HR challenges.