About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

As we experience rapid growth, we face an exciting challenge in scaling our people, processes, and management capabilities to keep pace with our evolving business. We’re seeking a Senior HR Business Partner (Individual Contributor role) to lead HR for our R&D teams in India, which include Engineering and Product.

This role will serve as a trusted advisor to our leaders and their teams, offering guidance on all aspects of people management—such as Leadership Development, Organization Design, Performance Management, and Employee Engagement. A key part of this role will be building management capabilities by training and coaching managers on employee lifecycle processes and best practices in people management.

With our company having tripled its headcount last year and set to double again this year, this is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact. You’ll be joining an HR function that is still growing and adapting, racing to meet the evolving needs of the business. This is an exciting chance to lead and learn in a fast-paced environment alongside a team of smart, passionate professionals.

This role will be hybrid, with an expectation of being on-site at our Bangalore office three days a week.

Vision for the Role

Rippling R&D India has over 300 employees as of Dec 2024 and forecasted to continue to grow in 2024. As such, we need to have a dedicated HRBP supporting R&D with a bias for scaling, automating and empowering others to self-serve. Here are some of the key areas that you'll be contributing to:

• Identify process and efficiency gaps, build scalable employee-facing processes and policies to scale the HRBP team.
• Coach people managers through complex and sensitive situations.
• Step in when needed to assist with employee facing motions, including answering JIRA tickets, running investigations, etc. 
• Eventually own relationships with R&D leadership in India to build & influence their people strategy.

What you will do

• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to drive and execute successful delivery of all HR programs including performance management, management excellence programs, and compensation reviews
• Coach and advise managers on complex leadership and HR matters including sensitive employee relations issues
• Guide managers on career pathing and leveling, skill and professional development
• Assess manager and employee development training needs and conduct 1:1/group sessions as needed
• Serve as a point of contact for employees; helping them navigate professional or personal issues that impact their work and career growth
• Collaborate across peer groups to drive talent initiatives to meet business needs
• Lead day-to-day activities related to HR policies, processes, and programs
• Track and analyse key indicators of organizational health and recommend ways to improve value
• Support employees in the respective organizations and serve as the face of HR to these teams

What you will need

• Minimum of 5+ years of previous HRBP experience & overall experience of 8-10 yrs
• Deep understanding of HR processes, especially hands-on experience in management/leadership development, performance management, and employee relations
• Ability to independently lead project based work that drives the creation of HR processes, programs, and talent effectiveness. 
• Ability to naturally adapt their style and use persuasion to deliver complex messages regularly to a diverse range of stakeholders
• Previous experience in management/leadership development programs and/or learning and development function strongly preferred
• Business savvy; can quickly develop the business sense to offer relevant HR solutions
• Assertive and humble; can overcome resistance and effectively manage change
• Fast-paced and action-oriented; can comfortably operate in ambiguity with minimal guidance
• A positive can-do attitude; can navigate through the challenges and find solutions
• Able to operate at a tactical as well as strategic level
• Analytical, quantitative, and process-oriented thinker; someone comfortable digging into data as needed to inform decisions

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