Assistant Vice President Human Resources

CloudSEK; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Food, unlimited snacks & drinks

Office events and game nights

Job summary

CloudSEK is seeking a seasoned Chief Happiness Officer (Director/AVP HR) to lead people strategy, culture, and performance across multiple geographies. You will design and scale systems for engagement, retention, and leadership development while partnering with the CEO to shape the organization’s growth trajectory.

You will implement data-driven dashboards, feedback loops, and retention strategies to ensure top talent feels valued, challenged, and aligned with company goals.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in people leadership, culture, org design, or performance roles (startup / tech preferred).
• Strong systems thinker who can design metrics, feedback loops, and processes.
• Deep empathy, high integrity, and the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Comfortable with data, dashboards, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Own org health strategy and culture scaling across geographies.
• Design and implement performance, retention, and leadership development programs.
• Partner with CEO and leadership on org design and growth plans.
• Build dashboards and signals to measure engagement and attrition.

Skills

People leadership

Org design

Culture building

Performance management

Data-driven decisions

Dashboard analytics

Leadership influence

Job description

We are a bunch of super enthusiastic, passionate, and highly driven people, working to achieve a common goal! We believe that work and the workplace should be joyful and always buzzing with energy!

CloudSEK, one of India’s most trusted Cyber security product companies, is on a mission to build the world’s fastest and most reliable AI technology that identifies and resolves digital threats in real-time. The central proposition is leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to create a quick and reliable analysis and alert system that provides rapid detection across multiple internet sources, precise threat analysis, and prompt resolution with minimal human intervention.

Founded in 2015, headquartered at Singapore, we are proud to say that we’ve grown at a frenetic pace and have been able to achieve some accolades along the way, including:

CloudSEK's Product Suite

• CloudSEK XVigil constantly maps a customer’s digital assets, identifies threats and enriches them with cyber intelligence, and then provides workflows to manage and remediate all identified threats including takedown support.
• CloudSEK's BeVigil is a powerful Attack Surface Monitoring tool that gives visibility and intelligence on customers’ attack surfaces. It uses a combination of Mobile, Web, Network and Encryption Scanners to map and protect known and unknown assets.
• CloudSEK’s Contextual AI SVigil identifies software supply chain risks by monitoring Software, Cloud Services, and third-party dependencies.

Key Milestones

• 2016: Launched our first product.
• 2018: Secured Pre-series A funding.
• 2019: Expanded operations to India, Southeast Asia, and the Americas.
• 2020: Won the NASSCOM-DSCI Excellence Award for Security Product Company of the Year.
• 2021: Raised $7M in Series A funding led by MassMutual Ventures.
• Awards & Recognition: Won NetApp Excellerator's "Best Growth Strategy Award," CloudSEK XVigil joined NVIDIA Inception Program, and won the NASSCOM Emerge 50 Cybersecurity Award.
• 2025: Secured $19 million in funding led by Tenacity Ventures, Commvault.

At CloudSEK, performance, culture, and happiness are not separate — they are deeply linked.

We are building a company where people do the best work of their careers, and we want someone who owns that outcome end-to-end.

The Chief Happiness Officer(Director/AVP HR) is accountable for keeping our teams engaged, motivated, focused, and performing at a high level — while ensuring we retain our best people and build a culture that compounds over time.

This is not a “feel-good HR” role. This is a systems + culture + performance role.

What you will own

1. Measure what matters

You will build the instrumentation to continuously track:

• Engagement, morale, burnout, and energy levels
• Manager effectiveness and team health
• Attrition risk, regretted exits, and retention of top performers
• Alignment to company mission, clarity of goals, and execution focus

You will turn these into dashboards, signals, and early-warning systems — not once-a-year surveys.

2. Build feedback and improvement loops

You will design and run:

• Clear escalation and resolution loops for friction, conflict, and disengagement
• Manager coaching programs to improve leadership quality across the company

Your job is to detect problems early and fix them before they impact execution.

3. Identify, grow, and retain top performers

You will:

• Build a clear, fair system to identify high performers and high-potential talent
• Ensure top performers are recognized, rewarded, and developed faster than the rest
• Design retention strategies for critical talent
• Work with leadership on promotions, growth paths, and succession planning

Your outcome: our best people feel seen, valued, and challenged — not ignored or burned out.

4. Design a culture that scales

You will:

• Codify and reinforce our cultural values through rituals, stories, and behavior systems
• Ensure culture is consistent across geographies, teams, and growth stages
• Remove incentives and behaviors that create politics, fear, or low-trust environments
• Build a company where speed, ownership, integrity, and excellence are the norm

Culture is not posters — it’s what people do when no one is watching. You will shape that.

5. Partner with leadership on org design and people strategy

You will work closely with:

• The CEO and leadership team on org health and structure
• Managers on team effectiveness and leadership quality
• HR / People Ops on compensation, performance, and growth systems

You will bring data, insight, and perspective to leadership — not just execution.

What success looks like

• High engagement and energy across teams
• Low regretted attrition, especially among top performers
• Managers who are trusted, effective, and respected
• A culture that attracts strong talent and repels low-integrity behavior
• A company where people do great work and want to stay

Who you are

• 12+ years in people leadership, culture, org design, or performance roles (startup / tech preferred)
• Strong systems thinker — you can design feedback loops, metrics, and processes
• Deep empathy + high standards — you care about people, but you don’t tolerate mediocrity
• Comfortable with data, dashboards, and analytics
• Confident influencing senior leaders and holding them accountable
• High integrity, low ego, extremely trustworthy
• You genuinely care about helping people do their best work

Benefits of Joining CloudSEK

We provide an environment where you can develop and enhance your skills while delivering meaningful work that matters. You’ll be rewarded a competitive salary as well as a full spectrum of generous perks and incentives which include:

• Food, unlimited snacks and drinks are all available while at office.
• And, the finest part is yet to come! Every now and then we ensure to unwind and have a good time together, which involves games, fun, and soulful music. Feel free to show off your artistic side here!

CloudSEK is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.