Human Resources Lead

Position Overview:

HR Lead Product We are seeking a strategic and visionary HR Lead to architect the future of our core product teams and drive the evolution of a world-class product organization. This role goes beyond traditional HRit demands a powerful blend of strategic foresight, hands-on execution, and strong business acumen tailored to the pace of product-driven technology companies. As a key partner to business leaders, Product & Engineering Heads, and CXOs, you will be instrumental in scaling the organization, fueling innovation, and nurturing a culture of excellence in a rapidly growing environment.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to leadership, shaping people strategies that directly fuel business outcomes. Align talent priorities with organizational objectives, product strategy and evolving team dynamics to accelerate growth.

HR Frameworks & Policies for Scale: Architect and implement agile, scalable HR frameworks designed for a fast-moving, product-first environment. Continuously refine policies to reflect global best practices while ensuring they remain adaptive to innovation-driven need

Talent Management & Leadership Development: Lead workforce planning, succession pipelines and organizational design to ensure the availability of future-ready leaders and niche product talent. Build a culture of continuous leadership growth and resilience.

Compensation & Rewards Strategy: Design market-leading, competitive compensation structures, equity programs, and recognition systems that balance fairness, performance, and retention. Ensure alignment with business growth goals and product-market benchmarks

Next-Gen Talent Acquisition: Drive strategic hiring for key product roles (Product Managers, Solution Architects, Engineers, Data Scientists, UX Specialists) using innovative sourcing approaches such as hackathons, skill-based assessments, and cultural-fit evaluations.

Learning & Capability Building: Create future-ready learning ecosystems by addressing capability gaps, enabling technical upskilling, and implementing leadership development programs to nurture innovation, adaptability, and excellence.

Performance & Career Architecture: Redefine performance management with agile frameworks (OKRs, innovation KPIs, impact-based metrics). Establish structured, transparent career paths for both Individual Contributors and People Managers, fostering growth and retention.

Culture & Employee Engagement: Champion a high-trust, high-performance culture by leading engagement initiativesinnovation forums, employee councils, focus groups, and wellness programsdriving belonging, collaboration, and productivity

Employer Branding & Ecosystem Leadership: Position the company as a top employer in the product-tech space through strategic branding campaigns, thought leadership, and strong campus/industry partnerships. Build a reputation that attracts world-class product talent

Retention & Career Growth: Design personalized retention strategies and career development frameworks for critical and high-potential talent, ensuring long-term engagement and reduced attrition in high-demand product functions.

Data-Driven HR Excellence: Harness the power of HR analytics to deliver actionable insights on attrition trends, hiring funnels, engagement drivers, and workforce productivity. Leverage data to predict challenges and influence leadership decisions

Skills & Qualifications:

• MBA/PGDM in HR from Tier-1 or Tier-2 institutes.
• 1215 years of HR experience, including 5+ years in product-based IT companies
• Proven expertise in:

Product organization dynamics (engineering culture, agile HR practices).

HR analytics (attrition modeling, hiring effectiveness, workforce planning).

Compensation benchmarking for product vs. services tech roles.

Stakeholder management with senior leaders (CTO, Product & Engineering Heads, CXOs).

• Strong business orientation with the ability to balance people priorities with organizational growth needs.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and change management skills

About Newgen: Newgen is a global leader in digital transformation, empowering enterprises with a low-code platform to develop complex, content-driven, and customer-engaging business applications on the cloud. From onboarding to service requests, lending to underwriting, Newgens platform supports diverse industries in unlocking simplicity with speed and agility.

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