Lead Human Resource Business Partner

About Us:
Newton School of Technology (NST) is redefining technical education in India. Founded by IIT alumni, we run a 4-year B.Tech in Computer Science and AI built on hands-on learning and deep industry integration. Within two years, 93%+ of our students have landed paid internships at companies like Razorpay, SarvamAI, and DRDO, alongside tech treks to Singapore and Silicon Valley. Our faculty includes ICPC World Finalists and alumni of ISRO, Microsoft, and MakeMyTrip. We're backed by $31M+ from Steadview Capital, RTP Global, and Nexus Venture Partners to scale this model further.
The Role:
We're seeking a strategic Lead HRBP to be a trusted partner to our leadership team, shaping how we build, develop, and retain talent as we scale rapidly. You'll move fluidly between long-range workforce planning and hands-on people problem-solving, influencing organization design, performance culture, and decisions that directly impact outcomes. This is a high-visibility role in a fast-moving environment where impact compounds quickly. You'll work across our team, faculty, and student community to keep NST's people engine as sharp as its academic one.
What You'll Own
Employee Relations, Grievance & Risk Management
Manage and resolve complex employee relations cases, balancing business needs with fairness.
Own a confidential, trusted grievance-redressal process, and ensure adherence to labor law and internal governance frameworks to mitigate organizational risk.
Advise leaders on sensitive people matters-conflict resolution, disciplinary action-with sound judgment.
HR Operations & Compliance
Own onboarding, offboarding, and the performance management cycle end-to-end.
Ensure payroll accuracy and compensation benchmarking that keeps NST competitive.
Maintain HR policy as a living framework, not static documentation.
Strategic Partnership, Stakeholder Management & Workforce Planning
Own the people strategy for your assigned teams, forecasting manpower needs against NST's growth plans and ensuring capacity aligns with business goals.
Partner closely with leadership and functional heads to diagnose organizational needs and co-create solutions that lift capability and performance.
Build genuine relationships across the team, faculty (many ex-ISRO/Microsoft/MakeMyTrip), and students, influencing decisions through insight and business understanding.
Employee Experience, Engagement & Development
Design engagement initiatives that keep the team genuinely connected to NST's mission, using data to guide what actually moves the needle.
Shape a culture rooted in meritocracy, diversity, equity & inclusion across the employee lifecycle.
Act as a change catalyst through organizational transformation.
People Analytics & Org Health
Monitor workforce indicators-attrition, engagement, talent density, diversity, performance-and recommend targeted interventions.
Diagnose organization design gaps and drive succession planning as we scale from a 4-year cohort model to a larger, more complex org.
Link people metrics to business outcomes to drive accountability at the leadership level.
What You Bring
8-15 years as an HR generalist/HRBP; ed-tech or high-growth startup experience is a strong plus.
A relationship-builder who reads people well, backed by sound judgment on labor law and payroll fundamentals.
Comfort translating data into decisions, and workshops into real behaviour change.
Why Newton School
Work on a mission solving India's employability challenge.
High ownership and autonomy from Day 1.
Fast-paced learning environment.
Opportunity to shape large-scale education partnerships.

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