HR, Manager - India

The role

The HR Manager will own front-line employee relations and HR compliance for the Bangalore team. This role involves managing the complete employee lifecycle and supporting workforce planning.

What you will do

• Own front-line employee relations and HR compliance for the Bangalore team
• Resolve day-to-day policy, leave, and benefits questions accurately
• Triage and resolve routine employee complaints and workplace concerns
• Maintain HR policies, documentation, and statutory compliance
• Partner with recruiting on onboarding, offer logistics, and new-hire compliance
• Collaborate with the US-based People team on shared processes and projects
• Support light workforce and team planning
• Manage the complete employee lifecycle from onboarding through offboarding

Required qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in an HR Manager, HR Generalist, or Associate HRBP role
• Working knowledge of Indian labor law and statutory compliance requirements (POSH, PF, ESI, Shops & Establishments Act, gratuity)
• Track record of resolving employee questions and routine ER issues independently
• Strong stakeholder management and partnership skills
• Comfort handling sensitive employee situations with discretion, empathy, and professionalism
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with HRIS, payroll/EOR, or ticketing tools (e.g., Deel, Workday, Freshservice)
• High attention to detail
• Comfort operating with some ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
• Genuine excitement about Handshake's mission and the AI economy

Nice to have

• Experience working cross-functionally with a US-based team, including comfort with some overlap hours
• Exposure to contractor, gig, or data-annotation workforce models
• Familiarity partnering with Employers of Record (EOR) like Deel or Rippling
• Prior experience flexing between generalist HR execution and higher-judgment HRBP-style partnering

Benefits

• Generous Equity Grant vested over 4 years
• Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs spread throughout the first year
• Well Defined Performance Bonus ranging between 10 - 100% of base
• Medical Insurance Coverage
• Food credit for every in person day

About the company

Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI is a fast-growing AI data business working with frontier AI lab researchers.