Senior People Partner (HRBP)

SmartBear; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthdays off

Job summary

SmartBear in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior People Partner (HRBP) to align People & Culture with business goals in a hybrid work model. The role focuses on performance, employee relations, and organizational effectiveness across India, with a regulatory compliance ownership for India.

The candidate will partner with regional and global teams, drive retention strategies, and coach leaders to deliver an exceptional employee experience in a fast-growth tech environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a senior People Partner/HRBP role within a high-growth tech environment.
• Strategic partnering with senior leaders to drive People & Culture initiatives.
• Strong expertise in performance management, employee relations and organizational effectiveness.
• Experience analyzing engagement data and turning insights into actions.
• Excellent communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in global, distributed People & Culture teams is a plus.
• Background in people operations including HR systems and policy administration.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to align People & Culture strategies with organizational goals and translate priorities into actionable plans.
• Coach and advise managers on performance management, development, org design, compensation, and employee relations.
• Analyze engagement survey results and develop action plans with leaders.
• Develop and implement talent retention strategies to enhance employee experience.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, influencing leaders through data and People & Culture expertise.
• Collaborate across People & Culture to deliver scalable, impactful programs.
• Partner with global teams to adapt enterprise-wide programs to local legal and cultural context.

Skills

Performance management

Employee relations

Organizational effectiveness

Stakeholder management

Coaching

Job description

Senior People Partner (HRBP)

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams. SmartBear is trusted by developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s open source tools are downloaded more than 100 million times a month and have earned over 30,000 GitHub stars from the developer community. With its best-loved brands, including Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit. At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.

About the Role

• Partner with business leaders to align People & Culture strategies with organizational goals and translate business priorities into actionablepeopleplans.
• Coach and advise managers on performance management, employee development, organizational design, compensation, and employee relations.
• Analyze employee engagement survey results and develop action plans with leaders.
• Develop and implement talent retention strategies that enhance employee experience.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, influencing leaders through data, business insight, and People & Cultureexpertise.
• Collaborate across the People & Culture organization to deliver consistent, scalable, and impactful people programs.
• Partner with global People & Culture teams to adapt enterprise-wide programs to local legal and culturalcontext.
• The successful candidate will work from our Bengaluru, India office in hybrid model.

India Statutory Compliance (all India employees):

• Own compliance with Indian labor law — including the Industrial Relations Code, Shops & Establishments Act, and related regulations — for every India-based employee, regardless of which function or HRBP they are otherwise supported by, serving asSmartBear'sgo-to expert on India employment regulation.
• Partner with the Director of Global People Operations, Legal, and other HRBPs tomaintainvisibility into employment actions (hiring, compensation changes, terminations) across functions, so compliance risk is caught even outside your direct client group.
• Serve as the single point of accountability and escalation for India regulatory questions raised by other HRBPs or business leaders.

We are looking for you if you have:

• 8+ years of experience in a senior People Partner or HR Business Partner role, ideally within a high-growth technology environment.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior leaders to develop and implement strategic People & Culture initiatives.
• Strongexpertisein performance management, employee relations, and organizational effectiveness.
• Experience analyzing employee engagement data and translating insights into measurable action plans.
• Excellent communication, coaching, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• A passion for building inclusive, high-performing teams and creating exceptional employee experiences.
• Strong working knowledge of Indian labor law, statutory compliance, and HR regulatory requirements isrequired, given this role's company-wide compliance ownership.
• Experience working as part of a global, distributed People & Culture team is a plus.
• A background inpeopleoperations — including HR systems, processes, and policy administration — is a plus.

Why you should join theSmartBearcrew:

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating ourSmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know?

• Our main goal atSmartBearis to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBearis committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBearis headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland andBangalore, India.
• We’vewon major industry (product and company) awards includingB2BInnovators Award, Content Marketing Association,IntellyXDigital Innovator andBuiltInBest Places to Work.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based onmerit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminateon the basis ofrace, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status under applicable laws.We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity ofthought and experience as well as our values of being smart, open, driven, accountable, and curious.