Senior Director, People & Country Director - India

4 Months ago • 10-15 Years • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Director, People & Country Director - India at AlphaSense will lead and execute people strategies aligned with global objectives and local needs in India. Responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of People Operations, partnering with global functional leads, coaching leaders, driving initiatives to support business goals, and ensuring compliance with India's labor laws. This role requires strategic leadership, operational excellence, strong collaboration with global teams, and championing a positive and inclusive work culture. The successful candidate will be an expert in Indian labor laws and possess experience in high-growth, scaling companies.
Must have:
  • Strategic leadership & execution
  • People operations expertise
  • India labor law expertise
  • Global team collaboration
  • Coaching & mentoring
  • Culture building & inclusion

Job Details

Reports to: Vice President, People

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 1,500 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. Come Join Us!

About the Role:

The Senior Director, People - India will play a crucial role in shaping and executing People strategies that align with our global business objectives. You will be intimately involved in translating our global strategy into a local context that resonates with our India team, fostering a workplace that values each individual's contributions. Your role will involve establishing and maintaining a robust leadership presence, driving initiatives that support the company's strategic goals, and advocating for the needs of the India organization within the global framework. More than just a position, this role offers you an opportunity to directly influence the culture and day-to-day experiences at AlphaSense, ensuring that all our people feel valued, trusted, heard, and cared about. By driving people retention programs, leading innovative initiatives, and coaching leaders across the company, you will have a tangible impact on how we work and grow. 

What You’ll Do:

Strategic Leadership & Partnerships

  • Develop and execute comprehensive People strategies that align with global objectives and local business needs.
  • Lead and guide the People Business Partners and People Operations team members in India.
  • Coach and mentor local leaders, advising on organizational design and resource planning as we continue to scale.
  • Collaborate with leaders to develop and implement effective people strategies that support our business goals, and also foster a positive and productive work environment.
  • Guide senior leaders through our People Programs, including our Annual Compensation Review and our Annual Growth Review processes.

HR Operational Excellence

  • Oversee all aspects of People Operations in India while partnering with the relevant global functional leads, including Compliance & Operations, Benefits & Wellness, to ensure best practices that support employee health and productivity.
  • Recommend People solutions, drive initiatives, and implement new processes or tools aligned with business priorities, project operations, and overall team engagement. 
  • Utilize insights and information to track progress, measure results, evaluate, and recommend changes surrounding performance management, employee/manager development, and retention.
  • Implement and refine People processes to enhance efficiency and meet the needs of a scaling organization, ensuring adherence to India labour laws and regulatory compliances.
  • Navigate complex employee relations issues as needed.

Global and Local Integration

  • Act as a bridge between global strategies and local execution, ensuring cohesive and effective execution across functions.
  • Collaborate with US and other international teams to align on global People Team initiatives and adapt them to fit local contexts.
  • Serve as the local leader for Talent Acquisition, Leadership & Learning, and Workplace, Community, and Experience functions, partnering with the global functional leads to ensure local alignment.
  • Remove roadblocks and create a collaborative and productive environment for local team members.

Business Continuity and Country Leadership

  • Lead the India organization to operationalize the global business strategies by developing and maintaining the operational infrastructure to enable each local functional team to meet its strategic performance objectives. 
  • Balance the diverse needs and demands of each function and location hub, manage local budgets efficiently and effectively, identify opportunities for internal collaboration, and navigate through the complexities specific to the local environment on behalf of the business. 
  • Ensure local India infrastructure supports the scale; pace of growth; and local compliance obligations needed for a hyper-growth company preparing for IPO readiness. 

Cultural Leadership

  • Champion a collaborative and inclusive ‘culture of belonging’, removing barriers and fostering open communication across departments.
  • Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, ensuring they are tailored to local nuances and effectively implemented. 

Who You Are:

  • You are a strong communicator with the ability to drive organizational change through strategic partnerships and relationship building. 
  • You are a collaborator, ensuring we work as a global team considering the needs and legal framework/policies in India.
  • You aim to create a harmonious, collaborative culture within the management team/across departments in India.
  • You are obsessed with retention by way of creating sustainable, scalable organizations with best in class coaching, leadership, and career mobility.
  • You are a diversity, equality and inclusion champion with demonstrated success creating and implementing strategies.  
  • You are a leader of leaders with the ability to inspire.
  • You are an expert in India labour laws and regulatory compliance.
  • You have experience collaborating with global teams, including those based in the US.
  • You bring experience from high-growth, scaling companies to drive organizational growth and development.

 

Want to hear more?

You can apply by sending your resume through the application form. 

For more information, please contact Kailash Roy on LinkedIn

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