Director – HR Business Partnering & People Analytics

Director HR Business Partnering & People Analytics

Location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full-Time; Salaried

Compensation: Base Salary Bonus Benefits

Job Description

About Us:

Innovapptive is an enterprise SaaS company building an AI-powered Connected Worker Platform for industrial organizations. Our platform connects frontline workers back-office systems and assets in real-time to drive safety reliability and operational productivity.

Leading global enterprises including Shell Hess Westlake Chemical Kimberly-Clark Scott Miracle-Gro and Newmont Mining rely on Innovapptive to transform how work gets done across plants and field operations.

Our customers have achieved $50M EBITDA savings at a single enterprise 10 improvement in frontline productivity and 1520% reductions in maintenance costs.

Innovapptive is recognized as a Leader in Frost & Sullivans Frost Radar 2025 - Augmented Connected Worker Platforms with acknowledgments from Gartner and LNS Research and is backed by Vista Equity Partners and Tiger Global Management.

With headquarters in Houston and an engineering center in Hyderabad we have 300 employees across the U.S. India and ANZ and are on a strong trajectory toward $100M ARR.

The Role

Own and drive a data-led HR function that directly improves business performance workforce productivity and operating leverage.

Integrate strategic HRBP Talent Management and People Analytics to enable leadership to make real-time insight-driven decisions in a fast-scaling AI-enabled organization.

Core Accountabilities

1. Business Performance & Partnership

• Act as a strategic advisor to BU leaders on growth profitability and org effectiveness
• Translate business plans into workforce strategies with measurable business outcomes
• Drive org design role clarity and operating model efficiency

2. People Analytics

• Establish a single source of truth for all people metrics (real-time dashboards)
• Lead analytics across hiring attrition productivity and org design (span cost ratios performance distribution)
• Build predictive models (attrition risk workforce scenarios hiring plans)

3. Workforce Productivity & Cost Discipline

• Own workforce planning and budgeting aligned to revenue and growth plans
• Drive productivity metrics (revenue per employee output per team span optimization)
• Oversee immigration operations aligned to workforce strategy

4. Talent & Performance

• Lead a rigorous performance system with clear differentiation and accountability
• Improve top talent retention and leadership bench strength
• Build and accelerate high-potential talent pipelines

5. AI-Led HR Transformation

• Drive adoption of AI-powered insights and automation in workforce planning and decision-making
• Enable data-driven and AI-assisted ways of working across teams
• Partner with leadership to build a skills-based future-ready organization

6. Diversity Inclusion & Workplace Culture

• Act as a strategic advisor on building diverse and high-performing teams
• Drive representation equity and inclusive practices across hiring and development
• Strengthen a culture of respect and inclusion through robust governance and awareness mechanisms

Success Metrics (Board-Level KPIs)

Business & Productivity

• Revenue per Employee: 1015% YoY improvement
• Revenue Growth vs Headcount Growth: 1.5x
• Productivity Index: Measurable improvement across BUs

Talent Outcomes

• Regretted Attrition: < 10%
• Top Talent Retention: > 90%
• Succession Coverage: 80% (ready now / ready soon)

Analytics Adoption

• 100% leadership reviews driven by standardized dashboards
• Predictive insights actively used in workforce and talent decisions

Candidate Profile

• 1418 years across HRBP People Analytics / Workforce Planning
• Strong exposure to Talent Acquisition and scaling organizations
• Proven ability to drive business outcomes through HR interventions
• Deep expertise in data metrics and storytelling
• Experience in product / SaaS / tech environments
• Ability to operate at both strategic and execution depth

Reporting Structure

• Reports to: VP HR
• Team: HR Business Partners People Analytics

Why This Role is Critical

• Shifts HRBP from support function business driver
• Embeds data discipline and AI into decision-making
• Enables scalable growth without linear headcount expansion
• Drives operating leverage and talent ROI

What We Offer:

• A positive open and highly innovative environment and team
• Entrepreneurial spirit with unlimited opportunity to grow
• Opportunity to work with leading global brands on exciting and impactful projects
• Competitive Base Pay
• Best of plan on Vacation & Paid Time Off.
• Provision of Medical Insurance for family - self dependent spouse dependent children parents/parent-in-laws
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bi-annual reviews to ensure transparency and promoting high performance culture
• OKR Driven Performance Development Environment
• Learning & Development - access to wide range of e-Learning courses (technical Product Process etc.)
• A host of Interest Groups/Clubs for Book Reading Toastmasters Sports - Cricket Volleyball Throw-ball Badminton TT Music

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or creed alienage or citizenship status political affiliation marital or partnership status age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition veteran status gender gender identity pregnancy childbirth (or related medical conditions) sex sexual orientation sexual and other reproductive health decisions genetic disorder genetic predisposition carrier status military status familial status or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal state or local laws.

Required Experience:

Director

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1