HR Business Partner

Overview

As HR Business Partner, you will be the people partner to trading, quant research and technology leaders across the full employee lifecycle, building people infrastructure at a lean high-frequency trading firm.

What you'll do

• Partner with founders and desk/team leads on org design, team structure, succession and workforce planning.
• Translate business priorities, such as new desks, asset classes or the Singapore expansion, into people plans and hiring roadmaps.
• Use people data (attrition, engagement, compensation, hiring funnel) to surface risks early and recommend action.
• Partner with the recruitment team on lateral and campus hiring strategy, including campus selection, PPO conversion and FTE offer planning.
• Oversee intern and new-graduate experience from offer to joining, keeping pre-joining engagement strong.
• Shape employer branding events such as hackathons, quant competitions and campus talks.
• Run the performance review cycle end to end, including calibration for individual-contributor and lead roles.
• Support leadership on compensation benchmarking, bonus planning and retention plans.
• Own retention of critical talent through stay conversations, career pathing and early-warning signals.
• Protect the flat, high-trust, low-bureaucracy culture as the firm grows.
• Drive onboarding, mentorship and learning programmes that help new joiners become productive quickly.
• Handle employee relations matters with sound judgement, discretion and speed.
• Keep HR policies, confidentiality, IP and garden-leave obligations current and compliant with Indian labour law, and support Singapore requirements as that team grows.
• Manage exits thoughtfully, including exit insights and protection of intellectual property.
• Improve HR processes and tooling so they stay simple, accurate and scalable, and produce clear people dashboards and reports for leadership.
• Use AI tools extensively in day-to-day HR work, and automate repetitive HR workflows (onboarding, offer letters, leave and approvals, reminders, reporting), including AI-powered self-service such as an HR FAQ assistant.
• Set clear guidelines for responsible AI use in HR, covering data privacy, confidentiality and fairness in hiring decisions.

What you'll need

• Experience helping build or improve HR policies, processes and programmes, with outcomes you can point to (for example on attrition, hiring speed or engagement).
• 3 to 6 years of HR experience, including close partnership with tech, engineering or product teams.
• Experience at a fast-growing tech, fintech, startup or trading firm, ideally through a phase of rapid scaling.
• Hands-on, extensive use of AI tools (such as Claude or ChatGPT) and automation in HR work, with examples of processes automated or made faster.
• Hands-on experience with performance cycles, compensation reviews and retention of high-value talent.
• Working knowledge of Indian labour law and employee relations.
• Exceptional discretion with confidential information, plus clear, direct communication.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India.
• Work mode: office-based role as implied by in-person team partnership; no remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.