Senior Human Resources Business Partner

kAIgentic is building the intelligence layer for the world's most ambitious enterprises. Headquartered in Singapore with teams in India and Japan, our software platform helps large organizations evolve as fast as technology itself by turning the tacit know-how locked inside their people into safe, governed, AI-powered operations.

The hardest part of enterprise transformation is not strategy. It is execution. Institutional knowledge lives in people's heads, systems are fragmented, and risk tolerance is low. kAIgentic captures how work actually happens, designs better workflows, and runs them inside an intelligence layer that is observable, auditable, and engineered for the most regulated environments on earth. The outcome is an enterprise that continuously improves.

We are backed by SMBC Group as our founding partner and customer zero, and our platform is already being proven inside one of the most complex, regulated operating environments in the world. That means real problems, real data, and real production impact from Day 1.

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will work directly with the CHRO, the Head of Talent Acquisition, and the core leadership team to build the people foundation that lets kAIgentic’s intelligence layer scale. You will solve the hardest problems in building a high-performance, AI-native culture, designing people systems that use AI natively, and standing up the early-career talent engine that powers our next phase of growth.

This is a role for a hands-on, systems-thinking HR professional who wants to do more than run processes. You will translate our values of customer obsession, courage, care, and curiosity into how the company actually operates, and you will partner with our tech team to shape AI-first people systems where the work is real and directly tied to how kAIgentic grows.

• Build and scale a high-performance, AI-native culture rooted in our values of customer obsession, courage, care, and curiosity, and launch programs that bring those values to life every day.

• Translate mission and principles into daily operating norms: decision rights, feedback mechanisms, and leadership behaviors that match our growth phase.

• Partner with Product and Engineering to design and embed AI-native HR workflows, including performance review, listening mechanisms, AI-assisted policy Q&A, and people analytics summaries, into how HR operates.

• Design lightweight performance and feedback rhythms suited to a high-bar, low-politics, early-stage environment.

• Lay the analytics foundation. Implement HRIS, build simple dashboards, and ensure clean, reliable people data.

• Partner with Talent Acquisition to sharpen our employer brand and Employee Value Proposition, build a champion community of employees who tell our story externally, and collaborate on content and social campaigns.

• Build the end-to-end early-career talent engine: target institutions, role design, internships, fellowships, live projects, and case challenges, with structured 0-to-1 learning paths so freshers contribute to real work from week one.

• Own the lifecycle moments that shape employee experience: onboarding, manager connects, performance reviews, career conversations, and exits.

• Drive the annual performance review cycle for India leaders across Engineering, Product, and Customer Success.

• Build engagement mechanisms such as pulse checks, team connects, and recognition forums, and translate employee signal into practical actions with managers and leaders.

• Partner with managers to spot early signs of friction, disengagement, or manager-effectiveness gaps, and resolve them with speed and maturity.

• Manage grievances with fairness, confidentiality, and judgment. Stand up the Grievance Committee and POSH foundation.

• Work with external partners (search firms, legal, payroll / PEO, advisors) to continuously improve the experience of core HR operations.

• 7+ years of experience in HR, with a strong mix of Talent Acquisition and HR business partnering or people operations.

• AI-native velocity as a default mode of working (mandatory). Curious about how AI-native workflows can make HR sharper, faster, and fairer, and willing to learn by doing.

• Proven experience partnering with Product and Engineering leaders and driving engagement of senior tech talent in product / SaaS, fintech, consulting, or high-growth tech startups where the bar for talent and pace is high.

• Hands-on experience setting up or significantly improving HR processes, policies, and tools in a lean environment.

• High ownership bias. You see gaps, propose solutions, and run them to the ground.

• Comfort working directly with founders and senior leaders, including pushing back thoughtfully using data and judgment.

• Energized by complex domains even when you are not yet an expert, with a track record of learning quickly.

• Sound judgment, discretion, and fairness in handling sensitive employee matters.

Why join kAIgentic?

We are a global team of builders who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about the customers we serve, and believe the intelligence layer is how enterprise work will be reshaped over the next decade. We are building the connective tissue that lets large companies operate with the speed of a startup and the trust of an institution.

We look for people who:

• Combine technical excellence with genuine customer empathy.

• Are entrepreneurial and energized by zero-to-one problems with no playbook.

• Lead with ownership, integrity, and collaboration, not titles.

• Want to help define a new category of enterprise AI, not just ship inside an existing one.

• Working here means being surrounded by peers who challenge assumptions, celebrate progress, and build with both courage and care.

Life at kAIgentic

• Intelligence layer at the core. You will be shaping the substrate that turns institutional knowledge into governed, production-grade operations. This is enterprise infrastructure with real consequences.

• Innovation at enterprise scale. Startup velocity meets the depth, scale, and stakes of mission-critical, regulated environments. Both are non-negotiable.

• Ownership from Day One. Your work directly shapes the product, the culture, and the outcomes our customers see.

• Learning and growth. You will work alongside seasoned leaders from leading enterprises who have built and scaled global businesses.

• A culture of trust. Psychological safety, transparent disagreement, and disciplined experimentation are how we operate, not slogans on a wall.

• Global collaboration. Teams across Singapore, India, Japan, Europe, and the US, working as one.

• A mission worth the effort. Building something the world has not seen before: anintelligence layer that helps enterprises continuously improve how they run.