Site Manager
About ArangoDB
Arango makes your business data AI-ready, giving agents, apps, and assistants trusted context at scale. Every answer is traceable. Every decision is governed. No more stitching together a vector store, a graph database, a search index, and a governance layer added as an afterthought. Arango’s Contextual Data Platform has it all built in, not bolted on.
Trusted by organizations including NVIDIA, HPE, Zscaler, the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, Siemens, and Articul8, Arango helps enterprises move from AI pilots to reliable production systems faster while lowering infrastructure complexity and total cost of ownership. Arango is a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program.
Stop building Frankenstacks. Start building with Arango. Learn more at arango.ai
We believe great innovation happens when curious, driven people collaborate. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and supporting our employees and interns as they learn, grow, and contribute to shaping the future of enterprise AI.
Location: Hyderabad, India (new office), hybrid
Reports to: CPO
Role OverviewAs the founding member of the new India office, you will be the "boots on the ground" responsible for the successful launch and daily management of our new Indian subsidiary. You will bridge the gap between our global headquarters and the local Indian market, managing everything from office leasing to HR compliance and the initial scaling of our engineering team.
Key Responsibilities:
1. 2. Infrastructure & Office Setup
- Identify, negotiate, and execute lease agreements for a modern, scalable office space in a strategic location in Hyderabad.
- Coordinate with the IT department for the procurement of hardware, high-speed networking, security systems, and office furniture to create a "day-one ready" environment.
- Select and manage local vendors for housekeeping and facility maintenance.
- Partner with HR and Finance departments for local HR policies, an employee handbook, and payroll that complies with Indian labor laws (EPF, ESI, Gratuity, and TDS).
- Ensure 100% compliance with the POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) Act requirements and local leave policies.
- Partner with global leadership to recruit the core engineering team, managing the end-to-end process from sourcing to onboarding.
- Act as the local cultural ambassador, aligning the India site with Arango’s global teams while respecting local nuances.
- Provide high-level management for the engineering site, ensuring project timelines and quality standards are met during the transitional phase.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the global HQ, providing regular progress reports on setup milestones and budget spend.
Skills and Experience:
- Experience: 10+ years in operations or engineering management, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role within the Indian software/tech industry.
- Proven track record of setting up a foreign entity's first office in India from "zero to one".
- Deep familiarity with Indian labor laws, MCA filing processes, and GST/Taxation frameworks.
- Exceptional project management skills and the ability to work autonomously in a high-pressure, "startup" environment.
- Fluent in English (both written and spoken) and the local regional language, with excellent negotiation skills.
- MBA or a professional degree in Business Management.
- Experience in an "Engineering Manager" or "Technical Program Manager" capacity within a SaaS or software development firm.
At Arango, we believe that AI is only as powerful as the data foundation. Our mission is to help organizations build AI systems that can reason, decide and act based on unified, current, and trusted business context at scale. We are helping define a new category of infrastructure: the contextual data layer for AI.
Working at Arango means:
- Contributing to cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure
- Collaborating with experienced engineers, marketers, and product leaders
- Helping shape how enterprises build AI-powered applications
If you're excited about the intersection of AI, data, and social media, we’d love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- 10+ years in operations or engineering management
- At least 5 years in a leadership role within the Indian software/tech industry
- Proven track record of setting up a foreign entity's first office in India from zero to one
- Deep familiarity with Indian labor laws, MCA filing processes, and GST/Taxation frameworks
- Exceptional project management skills and ability to work autonomously in a high-pressure startup environment
- Fluent in English (written and spoken) and the local regional language; strong negotiation skills
- MBA or professional degree in Business Management
- Experience as an Engineering Manager or Technical Program Manager within a SaaS or software development firm
What We Do
ArangoDB is the most scalable open-source graph database, with more than 12,000 stargazers on GitHub. Building on the concept of ‘graph and beyond’, ArangoDB combines the analytical power of graphs with JSON documents, a key-value store, and a full-text search engine, enabling developers to access and combine all of these data models with a single, elegant, declarative query language. It serves as the scalable backbone for graph analytics and complex data architectures across many industries. Founded in 2015, ArangoDB Inc. is a privately-held company backed by Bow Capital, Iris Capital, New Forge, and Target Partners. It is headquartered in San Francisco and Cologne, Germany, with offices and employees around the world. Learn more at www.arangodb.com.
