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HR Country Partner - India, Singapore and Australia

OneTrust - Bengaluru, India - In-office - posted 2026-08-25

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OneTrust is seeking a Director, HR Country Partner to lead the People agenda for India, with ancillary support to Singapore and Melbourne offices. This is a strategic senior HR leadership role combining executive partnership with operational and compliance oversight. Key Responsibilities: - Serve as the senior in-country HR leader for India, acting as core advisor to local leaders on organizational strategy, people risk management, workforce effectiveness, and leadership decision-making. - Partner with business leaders on local org design, succession planning, talent strategy, retention priorities, and organizational change, particularly for R&D and GTM organizations. - Translate global People strategies into locally compliant, culturally relevant, and operationally scalable market plans. - Lead complex employee relations, disciplinary investigations, grievance handling, and exit matters, providing strategic direction on high-risk cases in partnership with Legal. - Oversee location-specific labor and statutory compliance across the employee lifecycle, including documentation, notices, pay, separation requirements, and policy localization. - Own governance of employment practices and monitor regulatory landscape changes, recommending policy and process updates to mitigate risk and maintain audit readiness. - Provide strategic HR leadership for organizational changes including restructures, reductions in force, role redesign, and sensitive workforce decisions. - Guide leadership on manager capability, performance effectiveness, team health, and culture to ensure fair, consistent, business-aligned people decisions. - Supervise HR service deployment to Singapore and Melbourne offices. Required Profile: A seasoned HR leader with strong business acumen, sound judgment, and credibility with senior stakeholders. Deep expertise in India employment and labor practices, track record of leading through complexity and change, and ability to balance strategic influence with hands-on execution. Data-driven, pragmatic, and capable of elevating the people agenda in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.

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