Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across all regimes, enabling end-users to gain actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception(data collection), comprehension(data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects(RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

Why Us?

• Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.

• Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.

• Competitive incentives, galvanising workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.

Ideal Candidate:

You are a strategic People leader who thinks like a business operator. You have partnered closely with founders and senior leadership in high-growth, technically complex environments and understand how to translate business ambition into a clear, executable people roadmap.

You bring depth in building systems for specialised talent, particularly engineering, R&D, or deep-tech teams, and know how to attract, engage, and retain high-calibre technical professionals. You are comfortable designing org structures, performance frameworks, and compensation philosophies that balance research rigour with execution speed.

You combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You can design long-term workforce plans while also rolling up your sleeves to solve immediate scaling challenges. You are data-driven, structured, and decisive, but equally attuned to culture, leadership dynamics, and organisational health.

Responsibilities:

1. People Strategy & Founder Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor to founders and leadership, deeply understanding business goals, product roadmap, and long-term vision.

• Design and execute a people strategy aligned with scale, speed, and technical excellence.

• Anticipate organisation-level challenges during rapid growth and proactively address them.

2. Talent Management & Retention

• Build frameworks for hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career progression for specialised engineers, R&D, and deep tech workforce

• Drive retention strategies for niche talent (space tech, deep-tech, advanced engineering).

• Design compensation philosophy, ESOP communication, and long-term incentives in partnership with leadership.

3. Organisation Development & Culture

• Shape and institutionalise Digantara’s culture, values, and ways of working as the company scales.

• Build org structures that balance research depth, execution speed, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Lead initiatives around leadership development, succession planning, and manager capability building.

4. Talent Acquisition (Strategic Oversight)

• Own hiring strategy for niche technical roles in collaboration with tech leaders.

• Build strong employer branding in the space-tech / deep-tech ecosystem.

• Enable scalable recruitment processes while maintaining a high bar for quality.

5. Performance, Learning & Growth

• Implement performance management systems that are fair, data-driven, and growth-oriented.

• Identify skill gaps and drive learning interventions for both technical and non-technical teams.

• Support first-time managers and technical leaders in people leadership.

6. HR Governance & Compliance

• Ensure HR operations, policies, and compliance are robust and future-ready.

• Balance flexibility needed in a startup with discipline required for scale.

• Oversee payroll, policies, audits, and employee lifecycle processes (with team support).

Qualifications:

• 10–14+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 5–7 years in a leadership role.

• Past experience in working in growth stage, tech-first ventures and working closely with founders to navigate and build people strategy

• Experience scaling organizations from ~100 to 300+ employees is highly desirable.

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru