Senior HR Leader

Innominds Software Pvt. Ltd.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Innominds seeks a strategic, business-oriented HR leader to drive the people function and strengthen talent attraction, development, engagement, rewards, and retention in a fast-paced technology services environment.

The role will own the HR operating model across business partnering, talent acquisition, workforce planning, performance management, and people analytics, partnering with the executive team to translate business priorities into scalable HR programs and a compelling employee

Qualifications

• Progressive HR leadership experience in tech/services
• Experience partnering with C-suite and founders on strategic people matters
• Strong track record in HRBP, talent management, rewards, and governance

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the people strategy aligned with growth and priorities
• Advise executives on organization design, workforce planning, and leadership effectiveness
• Lead end-to-end HR operating model including talent acquisition, performance, and development
• Build a strong leadership pipeline and executive hiring capability
• Develop compensation practices balancing market competitiveness and internal equity

Skills

Strategic HR leadership

Executive partnering

Talent management

Workforce planning

Employee engagement

People analytics

Change management

Education

Postgraduate in Human Resources or related field

Tools

HRIS / HR Analytics tools

MS Excel / Data visualization

Job description

Innominds is seeking a strategic, business-oriented HR leader to lead the people function and strengthen the organization’s ability to attract, develop, engage, reward, and retain high-performing talent. This role will partner with the executive team and business leaders to translate business priorities into people strategy, scalable HR programs, strong leadership capability, and a consistent employee experience.

The leader will own the HR operating model across HR business partnering, talent acquisition, workforce planning, performance management, talent development, employee engagement, rewards, employee relations, HR operations, policy, compliance, and people analytics. The successful candidate will combine executive presence with hands-on operating discipline and will bring sound judgment, confidentiality, empathy, and strong execution in a fast-paced technology services environment.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute the people strategy in alignment with business growth, delivery priorities, capability requirements, culture, and long-term organizational goals.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the executive team, business heads, and managers on organization design, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning, succession, talent risks, and complex people matters.
• Lead the end-to-end HR operating model, including HR business partnering, talent acquisition, onboarding, employee lifecycle management, performance management, learning and development, engagement, rewards, employee relations, HR operations, and exits.
• Build a predictable talent pipeline for leadership, strategic, technical, niche-skill, and high-volume hiring; strengthen executive hiring, workforce forecasting, employer brand, selection quality, and offer-to-join conversion.
• Establish a high-quality performance and talent-management system covering goal setting, appraisal calibration, potential identification, succession planning, career paths, internal mobility, recognition, and development of high performers and future leaders.
• Develop compensation and rewards practices that support market competitiveness, internal equity, pay-range discipline, performance differentiation, retention, and responsible cost management.
• Strengthen employee engagement and culture through effective listening mechanisms, leadership communication, recognition, inclusion, manager capability, change management, and action-oriented engagement plans.
• Ensure robust HR governance, policy administration, statutory compliance, employee documentation, audit readiness, data privacy, and consistent application of HR practices across locations and employee groups.
• Use HR dashboards and people analytics to provide clear insight into headcount, hiring, attrition, performance, engagement, compensation, productivity, capability, and emerging people risks.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing HR team with clear accountability, service standards, operating rhythms, escalation paths, and continuous-improvement priorities.
• Partner closely with Finance, Delivery, Sales, RMG, Administration, IT, Legal, and business leaders on workforce cost, organizational readiness, employee services, risk management, and business continuity.
• Maintain the highest standards of confidentiality, fairness, ethical conduct, employee trust, and compliance in all people decisions.

Experience and qualifications

• 18+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant responsibility leading the full HR function or multiple HR domains in a technology, digital engineering, product engineering, IT services, SaaS, consulting, or similarly complex organization.
• Proven experience partnering with founders, board members, C-suite leaders, business heads, and senior management on strategic and sensitive people matters.
• Strong track record across HRBP, talent acquisition, performance and talent management, rewards, employee engagement, employee relations, HR operations, policy, compliance, and people analytics.
• Demonstrated success building or scaling HR teams, operating models, leadership pipelines, performance systems, compensation practices, and HR governance.
• Practical understanding of workforce planning, organization design, succession, capability development, change management, employee relations, and HR risk management.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people decisions to growth, delivery, profitability, productivity, culture, and long-term organizational capability.
• Postgraduate qualification in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Excellent communication, influencing, facilitation, negotiation, judgment, and stakeholder-management skills.

About Innominds

Innominds is an AI-first, platform-led digital transformation and full-cycle product engineering services company. The company helps global enterprises, independent software vendors, and OEMs build, modernize, and scale products, platforms, connected experiences, data and AI capabilities, cloud solutions, and quality engineering practices.

Innominds is committed to equal employment opportunity and an inclusive workplace.

Innomindsis an AI-first, platform-led digital transformation and full-cycle product engineering services company headquartered in San Jose, CA.Innomindspowers the Digital Next initiatives of global enterprises, software product companies, OEMs and ODMs with integrated expertise in devices & embedded engineering, software apps & product engineering, analytics & data engineering, quality engineering, and cloud &devops, security. It works with ISVs to build next-generation products,SaaSify, transform total experience, and add cognitive analytics to applications.

With a product DNA and a legacy of design thinking, we nurture an innovative mindset, encouraging our teams to conceive ideas and build prototypes.

We are an AI-first, platform-led digital transformation and full-cycle product engineering services company that ‘Powers the Digital Next’ initiatives of global enterprises, ISVs and OEMs