HR Business Partner – People & Organizational Effectiveness

About Us

We are a fast-growing US headquartered fintech organization with ~300 India based employees, comprising product and data engineering, analytics, finance and support functions, focused on building a high-performance, ownership-driven culture. As we scale, we are strengthening how we manage talent, performance, and team effectiveness—while staying lean and agile.

Role Overview

We are looking for an HR Business Partner who will act as a strategic advisor to India based business leaders, helping shape team structures, manager capability, and workforce productivity.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of business strategy and people decisions, especially in an environment where hiring is selective and optimization is key.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering

• Partner with business leaders to design lean, effective team structures

• Translate business priorities into people strategies and actions

• Actively participate in business reviews and planning discussions

Workforce Optimization

• Identify opportunities for role clarity, redeployment, or redundancy

• Drive internal mobility over external hiring where possible

• Support leaders in making thoughtful, data-backed workforce decisions

• Build consistency in people management practices across teams

Performance Management

• Drive clear performance differentiation across teams

• Support calibration discussions with insights and perspective

• Ensure timely and effective handling of underperformance

Employee Lifecycle (Critical Moments)

• Partner on:

  • Key talent retention

  • Conflict resolution

  • Sensitive employee situations and exits

• Ensure employee experience aligns with company values

What Success Looks Like

• Manages independently and effectively handles most people decisions

• Strong alignment between business goals and team structures

• Reduced unnecessary hiring through better internal optimization

• Clear differentiation between high and low performance

• High trust and credibility with business leaders

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience:

• Around 10 years in HR, with experience in business partnering roles

• Background in high-growth / startup / fintech / tech environments preferred

Capabilities:

• Strong business acumen and problem-solving ability

• Comfortable handling tough people decisions (performance, exits, restructuring)

• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders

• Coaching mindset with a focus on building manager capability

• Analytical thinking and comfort with data-driven insights

Soft Skills:

• Pragmatic and outcome-oriented

• High ownership and accountability

• Courage to challenge with empathy and clarity

What This Role Is Not

• Not an HR operations role

• Not focused on engagement/events execution

• Not a recruitment role

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to shape how a growing fintech scales its people and performance

• High ownership, high impact role working closely with leadership

• Build systems and culture in a lean, outcome-driven environment

We are on the next phase of growth, with 10 years of experience behind us, offering exciting new products with AI-enabled features that are making a difference for US consumers; we are adding key new leaders to drive this growth. You could be part of that team!

How to Apply

Click “Apply Now” to send your resume to: careersindia@applieddatafinance.com with the subject line: “Career Opportunity with ADF – [Role Name]