Human Resources Business Partner

Newton School; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Newton School, a fast-growing technology-enabled education platform in Bengaluru, is seeking an strategic HRBP to partner with our leadership team as we scale. You will shape workforce planning, organizational design, and performance culture across our team, faculty, and student communities to build a high-impact people engine.

In this high-visibility role, you will navigate between long-range strategy and hands-on people challenges, resolve complex employee relations issues, ensure payroll

Qualifications

• 8-15 years as an HR generalist/HRBP in ed-tech or high-growth startup is a strong plus.
• Relationship-builder with sound judgment on labor law and payroll fundamentals.
• Comfort translating data into decisions and turning workshops into behavior change.

Responsibilities

• Own employee relations, grievance handling, and risk management.
• Manage onboarding, offboarding, and the performance management cycle end-to-end.
• Lead workforce planning and strategy with leadership to align capacity with growth.
• Partner with leadership, faculty, and student communities to align people initiatives and drive impact.
• Design engagement initiatives and foster a meritocratic, inclusive culture across the lifecycle.
• Monitor people analytics and link metrics to business outcomes to drive accountability at leadership level.

Skills

Relationship building

Labor law knowledge

Payroll fundamentals

Workforce planning

People analytics

Job description

Newton School of Technology (NST) is redefining technical education in India. Founded by IIT alumni, we run a 4-year B.Tech in Computer Science and AI built on hands-on learning and deep industry integration. Within two years, 93%+ of our students have landed paid internships at companies like Razorpay, SarvamAI, and DRDO, alongside tech treks to Singapore and Silicon Valley. Our faculty includes ICPC World Finalists and alumni of ISRO, Microsoft, and MakeMyTrip. We're backed by $31M+ from Steadview Capital, RTP Global, and Nexus Venture Partners to scale this model further.

The Role:

We're seeking a strategic HRBP to be a trusted partner to our leadership team, shaping how we build, develop, and retain talent as we scale rapidly. You'll move fluidly between long-range workforce planning and hands-on people problem-solving, influencing organization design, performance culture, and decisions that directly impact outcomes. This is a high-visibility role in a fast-moving environment where impact compounds quickly. You'll work across our team, faculty, and student community to keep NST's people engine as sharp as its academic one.

What You'll Own

Employee Relations, Grievance & Risk Management

• Manage and resolve complex employee relations cases, balancing business needs with fairness.
• Own a confidential, trusted grievance-redressal process, and ensure adherence to labor law and internal governance frameworks to mitigate organizational risk.
• Advise leaders on sensitive people matters-conflict resolution, disciplinary action-with sound judgment.

HR Operations & Compliance

• Own onboarding, offboarding, and the performance management cycle end-to-end.
• Ensure payroll accuracy and compensation benchmarking that keeps NST competitive.
• Maintain HR policy as a living framework, not static documentation.

Strategic Partnership, Stakeholder Management & Workforce Planning

• Own the people strategy for your assigned teams, forecasting manpower needs against NST's growth plans and ensuring capacity aligns with business goals.
• Partner closely with leadership and functional heads to diagnose organizational needs and co-create solutions that lift capability and performance.
• Build genuine relationships across the team, faculty (many ex-ISRO/Microsoft/MakeMyTrip), and students, influencing decisions through insight and business understanding.

Employee Experience, Engagement & Development

• Design engagement initiatives that keep the team genuinely connected to NST's mission, using data to guide what actually moves the needle.
• Shape a culture rooted in meritocracy, diversity, equity & inclusion across the employee lifecycle.
• Act as a change catalyst through organizational transformation.

People Analytics & Org Health

• Monitor workforce indicators-attrition, engagement, talent density, diversity, performance-and recommend targeted interventions.
• Diagnose organization design gaps and drive succession planning as we scale from a 4-year cohort model to a larger, more complex org.
• Link people metrics to business outcomes to drive accountability at the leadership level.

What You Bring

• 8-15 years as an HR generalist/HRBP; ed-tech or high-growth startup experience is a strong plus.
• A relationship-builder who reads people well, backed by sound judgment on labor law and payroll fundamentals.
• Comfort translating data into decisions, and workshops into real behaviour change.

Why Newton School

• Work on a mission solving India's employability challenge.
• High ownership and autonomy from Day 1.
• Fast-paced learning environment.
• Opportunity to shape large-scale education partnerships.