HR Business Partner – People & Organizational Effectiveness

Applied Data Finance, LLC; India; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Data Finance, LLC in India is seeking a seasoned HR Business Partner who will act as a strategic advisor to India-based business leaders, helping shape team structures, manager capability, and workforce productivity. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy and people decisions, with emphasis on selective hiring and internal optimization.

Ideal candidate has around 10 years in HR, with strong business acumen, data-driven insights, and the ability to influence senior

Responsibilities

• Business partnering with leaders to design lean, effective team structures
• Translate business priorities into people strategies and actions
• Actively participate in business reviews and planning discussions
• Identify opportunities for role clarity, redeployment, or redundancy
• Drive internal mobility over external hiring where possible
• Support leaders in making data-backed workforce decisions
• Build consistency in people management practices across teams
• Drive clear performance differentiation across teams
• Support calibration discussions with insights and perspective
• Ensure timely handling of underperformance
• Partner on talent retention and sensitive employee situations and exits
• Ensure employee experience aligns with company values

Job description

HR Business Partner – People & Organizational Effectiveness

We are looking for an HR Business Partner who will act as a strategic advisor to India based business leaders, helping shape team structures, manager capability, and workforce productivity.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of business strategy and people decisions, especially in an environment where hiring is selective and optimization is key.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering

Partner with business leaders to design lean, effective team structures

Translate business priorities into people strategies and actions

Actively participate in business reviews and planning discussions

Workforce Optimization

Identify opportunities for role clarity, redeployment, or redundancy

Drive internal mobility over external hiring where possible

Support leaders in making thoughtful, data-backed workforce decisions

Build consistency in people management practices across teams

Performance Management

Drive clear performance differentiation across teams

Support calibration discussions with insights and perspective

Ensure timely and effective handling of underperformance

Employee Lifecycle (Critical Moments)

Partner on:

Key talent retention

Sensitive employee situations and exits

Ensure employee experience aligns with company values

What Success Looks Like

Manages independently and effectively handles most people decisions

Strong alignment between business goals and team structures

Reduced unnecessary hiring through better internal optimization

Clear differentiation between high and low performance

High trust and credibility with business leaders

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience:

Around 10 years in HR, with experience in business partnering roles

Background in high-growth / startup / fintech / tech environments preferred

Capabilities:

Strong business acumen and problem-solving ability

Comfortable handling tough people decisions (performance, exits, restructuring)

Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders

Coaching mindset with a focus on building manager capability

Analytical thinking and comfort with data-driven insights

Soft Skills:

Pragmatic and outcome-oriented

High ownership and accountability

Courage to challenge with empathy and clarity

What This Role Is Not

Not an HR operations role

Not focused on engagement/events execution

Not a recruitment role

Why Join Us

Opportunity to shape how a growing fintech scales its people and performance

High ownership, high impact role working closely with leadership

Build systems and culture in a lean, outcome-driven environment

We are on the next phase of growth, with 10 years of experience behind us, offering exciting new products with AI-enabled features that are making a difference for US consumers; we are adding key new leaders to drive this growth. You could be part of that team!

How to Apply

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