Chief of Staff

InMobi Advertising; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

InMobi Advertising seeks a high-caliber Chief of Staff – People & Culture to partner with a senior People leader on Talent Development globally and HRBP for a key business unit. You will translate priorities into actions, acting as a strategic thought partner and execution leader across talent, organization, leadership and business strategy.

This role requires 8-12+ years of HR leadership experience, exceptional communication, and the ability to drive complex initiatives with pace and rigor

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of experience across HRBP, Talent Management, Organization Development, People Strategy, HR consulting or related areas.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence across functions and geographies without formal authority.
• High judgment, discretion and comfort handling sensitive talent matters.

Responsibilities

• Strategically leverage and prioritize Talent Development and BU People agendas, translating priorities into measurable outcomes.
• Lead executive-level programs and initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and timely delivery.
• Build and run operating rhythms across Talent Development and BU HRBP organizations, driving decisions to ownership and execution.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Job description

Reporting to: Global Head of Talent Development & HR Business Partner

Who are we and What do we do?

InMobi Group’s mission is to power intelligent, mobile-first experiences for enterprises and consumers. Its businesses across advertising, marketing, and content platforms are shaping consumer experience in a world of connected devices. InMobi Group has been recognized on both the 2018 and 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list and as one of Fast Company’s 2018 World’s Most Innovative Companies.

InMobi Advertising is a global technology leader helping marketers win the moments that matter. Our advertising platform reaches over 2 billion people across 150+ countries and turns real-time context into business outcomes, delivering results grounded in privacy-first principles. Trusted by 30,000+ brands and leading publishers, InMobi is where intelligence, creativity, and accountability converge. By combining lock screens, apps, TVs, and the open web with AI and machine learning, we deliver receptive attention, precise personalization, and measurable impact.

Through Glance AI, we are shaping AI Commerce, reimagining the future of e-commerce with inspiration-led discovery and shopping. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology, Glance AI transforms every screen into a gateway for instant, personal, and joyful discovery. Spanning diverse categories such as fashion, beauty, travel, accessories, home décor, pets, and beyond, Glance AI delivers deeply personalized shopping experiences. With rich first-party data and unparalleled consumer access, it harnesses InMobi’s global scale, insights, and targeting capabilities to create high impact, performance driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide.

Recognized as a Great Place to Work, and by MIT Technology Review, Fast Company’s Top 10 Innovators, and more, InMobi is a workplace where bold ideas create global impact. Backed by investors including SoftBank, Kleiner Perkins, and Sherpalo Ventures, InMobi has offices across San Mateo, New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta, Bengaluru and beyond.

At InMobi Advertising, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how billions of users connect with content, commerce, and brands worldwide. To learn more, visit www.inmobi.com

Role Overview

We are looking for a high-caliber Chief of Staff – People & Culture to partner closely with a senior People leader who holds two critical mandates: leading Talent Development for the company globally and leading the HR Business Partner function for a key business unit.

The Chief of Staff will operate at the intersection of talent, organization, leadership and business strategy, helping translate priorities into action and ensuring that the highest-impact people initiatives move forward with pace, rigor and alignment.

This is not a traditional coordination or administrative role. The Chief of Staff will act as a strategic thought partner, integrator and execution leader—bringing structure to complex problems, connecting priorities across teams, preparing critical decisions, and independently driving selected strategic initiatives.

The role offers unusually broad exposure to enterprise talent strategy, business leadership, organization design, workforce planning and the operating mechanics of a global People function.

What You Will Own

1. Strategic Leverage & Prioritization

Partner with the People leader to translate the Talent Development and HRBP agendas into a clear set of priorities and outcomes.

• Create visibility across priorities, commitments, dependencies and risks.
• Ensure leadership attention is focused on the highest-value issues.
• Structure ambiguous problems and develop recommendations for decision-making.
• Drive follow-through on key decisions and commitments.
• Identify issues early and proactively unblock progress.

Support the development and execution of the company's enterprise talent agenda.

This could include priorities such as:

• Leadership development and manager capability
• Top talent identification and development
• Succession and leadership pipeline
• Career and growth frameworks
• Talent density and capability building
• Performance and development interventions
• Emerging talent and strategic talent programs

Partner with Talent, HRBPs and business leaders to ensure programs move beyond design to deliver measurable business and talent outcomes.

3. Business Unit People Strategy

Support the HRBP leadership agenda for the business unit, working across HRBPs, business leaders and People COEs.

Key areas may include:

• Workforce and talent planning
• Organization design and effectiveness
• Leadership and succession discussions
• Critical talent and retention
• Performance and talent reviews
• Organizational health
• Leadership team effectiveness
• Strategic people interventions arising from business priorities

Bring together insights across these areas to help identify patterns, risks and opportunities requiring leadership attention.

Personally own a select portfolio of high-impact initiatives from problem definition through implementation.

Examples could include:

• Organization effectiveness reviews
• Leadership capability initiatives
• Talent architecture and career frameworks
• Strategic workforce planning
• AI and future-skills initiatives
• Top-talent interventions
• New organizational or operating models
• Cross-functional People transformation projects

For these initiatives, the Chief of Staff will be expected to lead the work, not simply track it.

5. Run the Operating Rhythm

Build the management system that allows two large portfolios to operate effectively.

Establish strong operating rhythms across Talent Development and the BU HRBP organization, including priority reviews, talent discussions, leadership forums and strategic planning cycles.

Ensure meetings lead to decisions, decisions lead to ownership, and ownership leads to execution.

Create concise dashboards and leadership updates that surface outcomes, insights, risks and decisions required, rather than simply reporting activity.

6. Executive & Leadership Effectiveness

Enable high-quality engagement with senior business and People leaders.

• Prepare strategic briefs and decision materials.
• Synthesize complex information into clear recommendations.
• Ensure critical issues receive the right level of attention.
• Represent the leader in selected working forums and drive actions on their behalf.

Over time, become a trusted point of connection across HRBPs, COEs and business leadership.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first 12 months:

Greater leadership leverage: The Talent Development and BU People agendas operate with greater clarity, prioritization and execution discipline.

Faster execution: Strategic initiatives move from discussion to decision to implementation more quickly.

Better integration: Talent Development, HRBP priorities and broader People initiatives are increasingly connected rather than operating as separate workstreams.

Stronger insights: Leadership has clearer visibility into organizational, talent and capability risks and can act earlier.

Independent ownership: The Chief of Staff is trusted to independently lead significant People initiatives and represent the leader in important forums.

What We Are Looking For

• Approximately 8-12+ years of experience across HRBP, Talent Management, Organization Development, People Strategy, HR consulting or related areas.
• Strong understanding of how business strategy translates into organization and talent priorities.
• Ability to operate comfortably with senior executives and People leaders.
• Exceptional ability to bring structure to ambiguous and complex problems.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to move from data to insight to recommendation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong program leadership with a bias toward execution.
• Ability to influence across functions and geographies without relying on formal authority.
• High judgment, discretion and comfort handling sensitive organizational and talent matters.
• Comfortable switching between strategic thinking and hands-on execution