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 Profile 

• A trusted governance professional with the ability to operate independently and serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and the Board. 

• Demonstrates exceptional ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate complex regulatory and governance matters with confidence. 

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities while consistently meeting critical compliance timelines. 

• An effective collaborator who builds strong relationships across functions and communicates confidently with Board members, regulators, investors, auditors, and external advisors. 

• Proactive in identifying compliance risks, driving process improvements, and strengthening governance frameworks across the organization. 

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of intellectual property governance, investor governance requirements, and shareholder obligations while supporting strategic corporate initiatives. 

• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and adapts quickly to evolving business and regulatory requirements. 

• Upholds the highest standards of integrity, confidentiality, and professional ethics in all interactions and decision-making. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead corporate governance across all group entities, ensuring adherence to applicable statutory, regulatory, and governance requirements. 

• Ensure end-to-end compliance with the Companies Act, 2013, Secretarial Standards, FEMA regulations, and other applicable corporate laws and regulations. 

• Independently plan, organize, and manage Board, Committee, and Shareholder meetings, including agenda preparation, documentation, minutes, and follow-up on action items. 

• Maintain all statutory registers, records, filings, and secretarial documentation incompliance with applicable laws. 

• Lead and execute corporate actions including incorporation of entities, issue and allotment of shares, rights issues, ESOP implementation, capital restructuring, and other governance-related transactions. 

• Ensure compliance with Shareholders' Agreements (SHA), investment agreements, and other governance documents by monitoring reserved matters, reporting obligations, investor rights, and contractual commitments. 

• Serve as the primary governance interface for investors by supporting Board reporting, investor communications, due diligence requests, governance-related information sharing, and post-investment compliance requirements. 

• Manage FEMA-related secretarial compliances and coordinate regulatory filings pertaining to foreign investments and cross-border transactions. 

• Oversee the company's Intellectual Property (IP) governance, including coordination for filing, prosecution, maintenance, renewal, assignment, licensing, and protection of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property assets in collaboration with legal counsel and technical teams. 

• Lead secretarial audits and coordinate with internal and external auditors to ensure timely closure of audit observations. 

• Liaise with regulatory authorities, external advisors, legal counsel, investors, shareholders, and other stakeholders on governance and compliance matters. 

• Advise senior leadership and the Board on governance best practices, regulatory developments, and compliance risks. 

• Support strategic initiatives including fundraising, investor due diligence, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate transactions from a secretarial and governance perspective. 

• Continuously strengthen governance frameworks, compliance processes, and internal controls across the organization. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Fellow or Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) (FCS/ACS). 

• 4–7 years of post-qualification experience as a Company Secretary, preferably ina high-growth, technology, aerospace, manufacturing, or multinational organization. 

• Strong expertise in the Companies Act, 2013, Secretarial Standards, FEMA regulations, Shareholders' Agreements, and corporate governance frameworks. 

• Proven experience in independently managing Board, Committee, and Shareholder meetings and statutory compliances across multiple legal entities. 

• Hands-on experience in corporate actions, including issue and allotment of shares, ESOPs, capital restructuring, incorporation of entities, and related regulatory filings. 

• Experience managing compliance under Shareholders' Agreements, investor rights, governance obligations, and supporting investor relations. 

• Working knowledge of Intellectual Property laws, including trademarks, patents, copyrights, and related filing, maintenance, licensing, and portfolio management processes. 

• Experience managing secretarial audits, regulatory inspections, and interactions with government authorities and regulatory bodies. 

• Exposure to fundraising, investor due diligence, cross-border transactions, and governance support for strategic corporate initiatives is highly desirable. 

• Proficiency in MCA filings, secretarial compliance tools, and documentation management. 

• Strong drafting, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively with senior leadership, investors, regulators, and external advisors. 

Preferred Qualities 

• High integrity and sound professional judgment. 

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently. 

• Strategic thinker with a practical, business-oriented approach to governance. 

• Excellent organizational and project management capabilities. 

• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with senior leadership, regulators, auditors, investors, and external advisors. 

• Adaptability and resilience in a dynamic, fast-paced, and evolving business environment. 

• Commitment to continuous improvement and governance excellence. 

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru