Senior HR Generalist

Arango; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Arango Hyderabad is seeking a founding member of the India office to lead HR administration and office operations during the critical launch phase. You will coordinate recruitment, onboarding, payroll, compliance, vendor management, travel, and facilities to support a growing engineering team.

The role requires 10+ years in HR/administration, fluency in English and Hindi, strong Google Workspace skills, and exceptional attention to detail.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in HR administration or office management.
• Fluent in English and Hindi; regional language proficiency is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in Google Workspace and HRIS/payroll software.
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks with high attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Recruitment & HR Coordination
• Serve as the subject matter expert on local employment laws and compliance, advising on policy creation, employee relations, and HR risk management.
• Manage the day-one orientation for new hires, ensuring all equipment, access badges, and welcome kits are ready.
• Maintain secure employee files and ensure all mandatory local documents are collected.
• Support payroll by tracking attendance, leaves, and reimbursements for monthly processing.
• Assist the Site Manager in scheduling interviews and managing candidate pipelines to scale the engineering team.
• Office Administration and facilities management.
• Coordinate travel and accommodation for visiting guests and events.
• Assist MCA filings, GST registrations, and labor law compliance.
• Ensure office safety compliance and POSH Act awareness.

Skills

HR Administration

Office Management

Multitasking

English & Hindi communication

Attention to detail

Tools

HRIS/Payroll software

Google Workspace

Job description

About ArangoDB

Arango delivers a unified, natively multimodel contextual data platform that powers AI agents, assistants, and applications with the unified, current, and trusted business context needed to reason, decide, and act at scale.

About ArangoDB

Arango delivers a unified, natively multimodel contextual data platform that powers AI agents, assistants, and applications with the unified, current, and trusted business context needed to reason, decide, and act at scale.

The Arango Contextual Data Platform connects fragmented enterprise data with LLMs, copilots, and AI agents through a simplified architecture delivered out of the box. By combining graph, vector, document, key-value, and search capabilities in a single platform, Arango eliminates the complex stacks many organizations build to operationalize enterprise AI.

Trusted by organizations including NVIDIA, HPE, the London Stock Exchange, PSI CRO, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, Siemens, Transient.AI, Matpriskollen, and Articul8, Arango helps enterprises move from AI pilots to reliable production systems faster while lowering infrastructure complexity and total cost of ownership. Arango is a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program. Learn more at arango.ai, LinkedIn, and G2.

Location: Hyderabad, India (new office), hybrid

Reports to: Initially reports to Site Manager, dotted line reports to Global Director of Human Resources

Role Overview

As the founding member of the new India office, you will be the right hand to the Site Manager during the critical launch phase of our India operations. This is a high-impact, multifaceted role where you will manage the administrative backbone of the company - from coordinating office build-outs and vendor relationships to executing the daily HR operations that support our growing engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruitment & HR Coordination
• Serve as the subject matter expert on local employment laws and statutory compliance, advising the People team on policy creation, employee relations, and HR risk management.
• Manage the day-one orientation for new hires, ensuring all equipment, access badges, and "welcome kits" are ready.
• Maintain secure employee files and ensure all mandatory local documents (Form 11, Aadhaar/PAN copies) are collected and filed.
• Support the payroll team by working with our local payroll provider to track attendance, leaves, and reimbursement claims for monthly processing.
• Assist the Site Manager in scheduling interviews, managing candidate pipelines to scale the engineering team.
• Office Administration
• Lead the initial office setup by coordinating with interior designers, IT installers, and furniture vendors.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the facility manager, ensuring the office is clean, stocked with supplies, office keys are safely managed, and fully functional.
• Manage relationships with local service providers (Internet, Utilities, Housekeeping, and Security).
• Arrange travel and accommodation for visiting guests, global leadership and local team events.
• IT equipment shipping and handling, and tracking
• Compliance & Legal Support
• Assist the Site Manager in gathering documents required for MCA filings, GST registrations, and labor law compliance.
• Ensure the office remains compliant with local safety regulations and support the implementation of POSH Act awareness training.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in HR Administration or Office Management, preferably within a fast-paced tech startup or a multinational company.
• Fluent in English and Hind (both written and spoken)i; proficiency in the local regional language of the office site is a strong advantage.
• High proficiency in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides) and familiarity with HRIS/Payroll software.
• A proven ability to juggle multiple operational tasks with high attention to detail and zero oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the "Shops and Establishments Act" and basic Indian labor law compliance.
• Experience working in a global team environment.

What Makes Arango Special?

At Arango, we believe that AI is only as powerful as the data foundation. Our mission is to help organizations build AI systems that can reason, decide and act based on unified, current, and trusted business context at scale. We are helping define a new category of infrastructure: the contextual data layer for AI.

Working at Arango means:

• Contributing to cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure
• Collaborating with experienced engineers, marketers, and product leaders
• Helping shape how enterprises build AI-powered applications

If you're excited about the intersection of AI, data, and social media, we’d love to hear from you.