Director, Human Resources (India)

Location: Chennai
Department: Human Resources

Reporting to the VP, Global HR, you will oversee all people operations in India, ensuring they are aligned with our business goals, executed in compliance and prepared to scale.

This is an opportunity to make a real impact. You’ll have the opportunity to influence the full employee experience — from attracting and developing exceptional talent, to building high-performing teams, strengthening leadership capability, shaping culture, and ensuring our people practices are ready to scale. We're looking for someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves while also thinking strategically about where the business is headed next.

ValGenesis is at an exciting point in its journey. We pioneered digital validation in the life sciences industry and have continued to evolve our technology and solutions to help organizations navigate an increasingly complex, regulated world. Today, we’re expanding beyond validation toward an end-to-end digital transformation platform — creating significant opportunity for innovation and growth.

What Makes This Role Different?

You’ll have a seat at the table.
Partner directly with senior leaders and influence decisions that shape the India organization and our broader global business.

You’ll build, not just maintain.
Help evolve our people strategy, programs, processes, and talent capabilities as the organization grows.

You’ll have meaningful impact.
From leadership coaching and organizational effectiveness to talent strategy and culture, your work will directly influence how we grow and how our people experience ValGenesis.

You’ll work globally.
Collaborate with HR and business leaders across India, North America, Europe, and other regions to bring global initiatives to life while ensuring they work for our local teams.

You’ll join a company with ambition.
We’re not standing still. We’re innovating, growing, and building toward becoming the leading intelligent validation platform in the market. We’re looking for people who want to help us get there.

What You’ll Do

Strategic HR Leadership

• Serve as the senior HR leader for India, partnering with business leaders to align people strategies with business objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders, providing guidance on organizational design, leadership effectiveness, succession planning, workforce planning, and change management.
• Partner with global HR leaders to shape and execute enterprise-wide people initiatives while ensuring local relevance.
• Use people analytics and workforce insights to influence business decisions and identify opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness.

Build High-Performing Teams

• Champion a culture of accountability, performance, engagement, and continuous development.
• Partner with leaders to establish clear performance expectations and foster ongoing coaching and development.
• Lead employee engagement initiatives, translating feedback into measurable improvements.
• Provide expert guidance on complex employee relations matters, investigations, performance management, and conflict resolution.

Lead Talent Strategy & Recruitment

• Ensure the India organization attracts, hires, and retains exceptional talent.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment for leadership, technical, and business-critical roles while partnering with hiring leaders on workforce planning.
• Develop innovative sourcing strategies and talent pipelines to support current and future hiring needs.
• Build ValGenesis' employer brand within the India market through proactive talent engagement and networking.
• Advise leaders on market intelligence, talent availability, compensation trends, and competitive hiring strategies.
• Continuously improve recruiting processes, candidate experience, and hiring outcomes through data-driven decision-making.

Scale India People Operations

• Ensure HR programs, policies, and practices are compliant with Indian employment legislation and aligned with global standards.
• Drive continuous improvement across onboarding, performance management, rewards, engagement, and other core people processes.
• Oversee international mobility, immigration, and other employment-related requirements.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and scale HR operations as the business continues to grow.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including significant HR Business Partner experience in a high-growth technology or SaaS environment.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior leaders to influence business strategy and organizational outcomes.
• Strong experience leading talent acquisition strategies and hiring for technical and business functions.
• Deep knowledge of Indian employment legislation and HR best practices.
• Experience working within a global organization and collaborating across multiple regions and time zones.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance business objectives with people priorities.
• Exceptional communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
• A builder's mindset—you thrive in environments where you can create, improve, and scale.
• Business fluency in English.

We’re on a Mission

In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world’s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS® revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.

Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation ― enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end-to-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose-built systems with world-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations.

The Team You’ll Join

• Our customer’s success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity’s quality of life, and we honor that mission.
• We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done.
• We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward.
• We’re in it to win it. We’re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won’t settle for anything less than being a market leader.

How We Work

Our Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore offices are onsite, 5 days per week. We believe that in-person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, and a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company.

ValGenesis is an equal-opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.