Human Resources Manager (HRBP-Tech, Product & Finance Teams)

Affinity Global; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Affinity is seeking a Manager, HR Business Partner to serve as a strategic advisor for its internal capability centres, including Technology, Product, Finance, Legal, and other core functions. The HRBP aligns people practices with long-term goals for capability-building, governance, and innovation.

The role focuses on team maturity, knowledge capital, and change readiness, ensuring continuity, clarity, and culture across cross-functional environments, including hybrid/remote setups.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in HR Business Partnering (Generalist) roles.
• 5+ years supporting Technology teams as an HRBP.
• Currently managing a headcount of 250+ in a Manager/HRBP capacity.
• Extensive experience in change and performance management, employee relations, KRA/KPI setting and management for stakeholders, and people analytics.
• Experience within a large Tech, AdTech, FinTech, or SaaS organization is essential.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership with leaders across Technology, Product, and Enabler Functions.
• Translate business goals into workforce requirements and realignment plans.
• Lead org mapping, role evolution, and targeted interventions for HIPO/LOPO.Proactively identify capability gaps and coordinate with L&D.
• Anchor sentiment analyses and feedback loops for functional maturity.
• Collaborate to align with leadership on values, culture, and hybrid/remote setups.

Skills

Strategic HR advisory

Change management

People analytics

Leadership partnering

Performance management

Employee relations

Job description

Affinity is pioneering new frontiers in AdTech, developing solutions that push past today's limits and open up new opportunities. We are a global AdTech company helping publishers discover better ways to monetize and enabling advertisers to reach the right audiences through new touchpoints. Operating across 10+ markets in Asia, the US, the UK and Europe, with a team of over 650 experts, we are building privacy-first ad infrastructure that opens up opportunities beyond the walled gardens. We were recently awarded Publisher of the Year by CJ at the CJ Excellence Awards '26.

Role: Manager, HR Business Partner

About the Role

This role serves as a strategic HR advisor and enabler for Affinity’s internal capability centres, including Technology, Product, Finance, Legal, and other core enabler functions. The HR Business Partner aligns people practices with long-term goals for capability-building, governance, and innovation.

With a focus on team maturity, knowledge capital, and change readiness, the HRBP plays a critical role in ensuring continuity, clarity, and culture across complex, cross-functional environments.

The HR Business Partner supports intellectually and technically intensive teams, many of which operate in matrixed, high-autonomy structures. The role calls for a nuanced approach to culture, growth enablement, leadership partnering, and employee listening, alongside strong alignment with internal systems and compliance rigor.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as an HR sounding board to leaders across Technology, Product, and Enabler Functions.
• Translate operational goals (e.g., new product sprints, audits, internal system transformations) into clear workforce requirements.
• Contribute to strategic resourcing, change enablement, and internal transformation planning.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to define quarterly hiring needs, realignment plans, and skill-demand forecasts.
• Lead ongoing org mapping and role-evolution exercises; identify high-potential (HIPO) and low-potential (LOPO) team members and work with managers on targeted interventions.
• Proactively identify capability gaps and align with L&D on focused development interventions.
• Anchor sentiment deep-dives and thematic feedback loops tailored to functional maturity (e.g., Product retros, Tech town halls).
• Work closely with leadership to articulate team values and a shared identity, especially in hybrid and remote setups.
• Act as a neutral facilitator in team conflict resolution and relationship building.

Performance & Manager Enablement

• Ensure role clarity, OKR/KPI linkage, and manager readiness for performance reviews.
• Foster feedback-rich environments within engineering and product cultures that may otherwise deprioritize structured reviews.
• Coach managers on communication, boundary-setting, and capability acceleration.
• Maintain a heatmap of retention risks and early attrition indicators across the business group.
• Collaborate with Rewards, Finance, and Operations to co-create interventions such as recognition, compensation realignment, and internal mobility.
• Influence the design of role-level growth paths, internal transfers, and re-scoping initiatives.

Data, Insights & Policy Influence

• Consolidate and present insights to functional leaders on attrition, engagement, and internal talent flow.
• Represent the stakeholder voice in the evolution of HR policy (e.g., flexible work models, internal mobility, upskilling mandates).
• Co-own ESAT surveys and action planning; facilitate cross-functional comparisons and follow-ups.

Success Metrics

• ESAT score trend within the business group
• Percentage reduction in attrition
• Stakeholder feedback (qualitative and survey-led)
• Alignment of hiring plan vs. actuals (in collaboration with TA)
• 100% PMS process completion and timely closure of qualitative OKRs/KPIs
• Incorporation of business feedback into HR policies and practices

Required Skills & Experience

• Currently managing a headcount of 250+ in a Manager / HRBP capacity
• 8+ years in HR Business Partnering (Generalist) roles
• 5+ years supporting Technology teams as an HRBP
• Ability to thrive within a fast-paced, large HR team (20+ members)
• Extensive experience in change and performance management, employee relations, KRA/KPI setting and management for stakeholders, and people analytics
• Experience within a large Tech, AdTech, FinTech, or SaaS organization is essential