Human Resources Lead

Coforge; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge's Momentuum Blue is seeking a Human Resources Lead to design and scale the people function for a new practice. You will shape the org structure, roles, and career levels as cohorts grow, and partner to co-own the 11-week residential academy with curriculum and training teams.

You'll drive culture, performance frameworks, and talent retention across pods, while building data-driven insights with HR systems and collaborating with leadership across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, business, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design how Momentuum Blue's org structure evolves as it scales.
• Co-own the 11-week residential academy with curriculum and training partners.
• Develop culture and retention strategies across pods.
• Design a performance framework based on outcomes.
• Create a clear career ladder from Associate to Pod Lead.
• Lead People Operations across active and pipeline engagements.
• Build HR data reporting and partner with corporate systems.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Job description

Job Description: Human Resources Lead @ Momentuum Blue; a COFORGE company based in PRINCETON NJ

About Coforge

At Coforge, we believe that the leaders of tomorrow will have their business capabilities defined and executed by a combination of humans and agents, underpinned by an enterprise data core and a cloud foundation purpose-built for AI.

We are a global AI-native engineering services leader, where AI is the very foundation of how we design, build, and deliver intelligent solutions for our clients. We use AI and hyper-specialized industry expertise to engineer autonomous enterprises. We combine AI agents with our AI-enabled workforce, including specialized FDEs in hybrid pod-based delivery units.

With a deep focus on trusted AI, our solutions are secure, governed, and enterprise-grade. We are outcome-led by design. Moving beyond AI experimentation, we deliver measurable business outcomes—lower operating costs, faster cycle times, higher conversion rates, and sustained margin growth.

At Coforge, we are built to grow relentlessly and purposefully. We measure success not just in financial terms, but through the growth of our people, our clients’ businesses, and the communities we serve. Our vision, “Engage with the Emerging,” reflects our commitment to embracing innovation early and decisively. With twin headquarters in Princeton, USA, and Greater Noida, India, Coforge employs over 45,000 professionals across 33 countries and 54 global delivery centers, enabling scalable, agile, and client-centric delivery.

Financial Highlights for Q1 FY 27

• Revenue: INR 55,277 Mn / US$ 592.2 Mn
• YoY Revenue up 49% in INR terms, 33% in USD terms
• EBITDA at INR 11,233 Mn / $ 120.3 Mn, up 74% YoY in INR terms, up 55% in USD terms
• EBIT at INR 8,822 Mn / $ 94.5 Mn, up 101% YoY in INR terms, up 80% in USD terms
• PAT at INR 5,186 Mn / USD 55.6 Mn, up 110% YoY in INR terms, up 46% in USD terms

We take pride in our strong, people-centric culture, reflected in consistently low attrition and high employee engagement. This commitment to our people has earned us multiple recognitions, including being certified as a Great Place to Work® in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year, being recognized as ET Edge Best Organizations for Women 2026, and receiving the Golden Peacock Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance (2025).

Coforge continues to strengthen its delivery engine and invest in next-generation capabilities, with recognized expertise across AI & Automation, Cloud, Data & Analytics, Cognitive & Digital Interactive, and Enterprise Integration, supported by robust Digital, ADM, and IMS services. Strategic acquisitions have further accelerated this growth—SLK Global has scaled our BPM and automation-led services, Cigniti Technologies (2025) has expanded our presence across Retail, Healthcare, High Tech, and key US markets, and Encora (2026), a Silicon Valley - born AI-native firm, has enhanced our strengths across AI, Cloud, and Data, including Intelligent Process Design, Agent-Native Engineering, Core Modernization, and AIOps. Together, these advancements position Coforge as a ~$2.5 billion technology services powerhouse, with strong nearshore delivery capabilities in LATAM & US and a high-quality AI and engineering talent base serving global clients.

Coforge today stands as a future-ready organization - combining scale, deep technology expertise, and a strong culture to deliver sustained value in an AI-driven world.

Learn more about Coforge at www.coforge.com

Useful Links

• Coforge Q1 FY27 Results
• Coforge Launches Nuuron: The AI Operating System for the Autonomous Enterprise
• Cigniti Acquisition
• Coforge Public Libraries
• Coforge Day 2025 Celebrations
• Coforge inaugurates Data & AI Lab in IIT (BHU), Varanasi to harness AI for large scale social impact

Role

Designation

Up to Director

Experience

Up to 10 years

Location

Princeton NJ

Position Overview

Head of People, Momentuum Blue

Job Description

Reports to

Partners closely with

SVP & Deputy Chief People Officer (Coforge corporate People org), Delivery & Operations leadership, AI Center of Excellence, Marketing

Location

Princeton, NJ (academy hub) — will need to travel to additional Momentuum blue pod sites in the future

About Momentuum blue

Momentuum blue is Coforge's Forward Deployed Engineer practice — built to be operationally deployed, not just announced. Our engineers do not sit in a staffing pool; they embed directly inside client environments, work in Mod Squad pods (Human engineers and AI agents working as a unit), and are measured against outcomes, not hours.

We built our founding cohort the hard way: several hundred applicants, a low-single-digit acceptance rate, and an 11-week onsite in-person academy before a single engineer touched a client engagement. Every cohort since will be held to that same bar. We are already embedded in enterprise engagements across financial services and insurance, with more industries opening up. Growth from here is deliberate, cohort by cohort — not headcount-first.

This is a genuinely new category of technical talent organization inside Coforge, and it doesn't run on the same People infrastructure as traditional IT services delivery. That is the gap this role exists to close.

Why This Role Exists

Every FDE — Senior and Associate — is part of Momentuum Blue. That means one leader needs to own the full arc of how this workforce is built, developed, and retained: from the first interview, through the academy, into a pod, and across a career that looks more like a technical career ladder at a top product company than a traditional model.

This is not a role that administers an existing People function. It is a role that builds one — in real time, alongside a practice that is scaling fast and changing shape as it grows.

What You'll Own

• Design how Momentuum Blue's org structure evolves as it scales from a founding cohort to a multi-cohort practice — reporting lines, pod composition, and career levels distinct from standard IT services grades.
• Co-own the 11-week residential academy with curriculum and training partners, balancing technical readiness with cultural alignment.

3. Culture & the Covenant

• Take ownership of developing the Momentuum Blue culture

4. Performance & Career Pathing

• Design a performance framework built around outcomes, not tasks or hours — the same mental model FDEs are hired into on day one.
• Build the career ladder from Associate FDE through Senior FDE to Pod Lead, with progression criteria that are objective enough to defend.
• Own retention past the academy — currently one of the two biggest risks to the practice's growth plan, alongside Senior FDE supply.

5. Pod People Operations

• Manage the people side of pod formation, staffing, and rebalancing across active and pipeline engagements.
• Be the escalation point for people issues inside client environments, where FDEs operate with more autonomy and exposure than a typical staffed engagement.
• Bring the people lens into new engagements early — from first client conversation through to deployment, not after.

6. People Data

• Build reporting that goes beyond booking and utilization to answer the harder question: is the practice actually healthy?
• Partner with corporate HR systems to get what Momentuum Blue needs without duplicating infrastructure that already exists.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

EEO & Accommodations

• Coforge is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during the selection process.