Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform.
At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.
Why Us?Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.
Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.
Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.
We are hiring an HR Business Partner to partner engineering, GTM, and corporate leaders across Digantara. You will report to the Head of People and own the partnering relationship for a defined set of business leaders - their org design, performance, talent reviews, comp decisions, succession, and critical employee relations matters.
This is a strategic HRBP role, not an HR generalist role. You will spend most of your time in business reviews, 1:1s with leaders, talent calibration sessions, and executive coaching moments.
What You'll Own:Business partnering: Be the trusted HR counterpart to senior leaders. Join their leadership meetings. Coach them on team decisions, difficult conversations, and people strategy.
Performance management: Run half-yearly and annual performance cycles. Facilitate calibration sessions. Coach managers on delivering feedback, performance plans, and hard calls.
Talent reviews & succession: Run 9-box or equivalent talent reviews. Identify high-potentials, flight risks, and succession gaps. Build development plans with leaders for top 10%.
Compensation partnering: Partner with the Head of People on annual comp cycles, promotions, off-cycle adjustments, and ESOP grants. Build business cases for exceptional awards. Ensure internal equity.
Org design & workforce planning: Partner with leaders on org structure changes spans, layers, team splits, reorg decisions. Build 12-18 month workforce plans tied to product and launch roadmaps.
Employee relations: Own complex ER cases conflict, grievances, investigations, POSH matters. Be the confidential sounding board for leaders on hard people decisions.
Manager capability: Coach first-time managers (Digantara has many). Build lightweight manager toolkits for 1:1s, feedback, performance, and hiring.
Engagement & retention: Own engagement data for your business units. Translate survey signals into leader actions. Track and reduce regrettable attrition.
Policy & compliance: Partner on POSH compliance, labour law compliance, and policy evolution as we scale. Support cross-geo policy alignment as US and Europe operations grow.
8-10 years in HR, with at least 4 years as a true HRBP at a product, engineering, or R&D-heavy company.
Track record partnering with senior leaders.
Fluency across the core four: performance management, compensation, org design, and employee relations.
Comfort with difficult conversations with employees, with leaders, and with your own manager when you disagree.
Data fluency: You use engagement, attrition, and performance data to make cases, not just to report.
POSH IC experience and working knowledge of Indian labour law (Shops & Establishments, Payment of Wages, PF/ESI, leave policies).
Experience at a deep-tech, hardware, aerospace, robotics, or semiconductor company where engineering cycles are long, and talent is scarce.
Experience through a funding round transition — Series A to B, or B to C — where the People function had to mature quickly.
Comfort with ambiguity and building playbooks from scratch, not inheriting Fortune-500 processes.
Job Location - Hebbal, Bangalore
Skills Required
- 8-10 years in HR
- At least 4 years as HRBP at product engineering or R&D company
- Experience partnering with senior leaders
- Fluency in performance management, compensation, org design, employee relations
- Experience with difficult conversations
- Data fluency with engagement and performance data
- Working knowledge of Indian labour law
What We Do
Digantara is an Indian company specializing in space situational awareness, intelligence, and surveillance. It develops infrastructure and data solutions for monitoring objects and traffic in Earth orbit, and is expanding its capabilities into missile defense.
