--- title: 'HR Business Partner & People O at Sarvam' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/hr-business-partner-people-o-sarvam-bengaluru-sd9129jyde6n' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # HR Business Partner & People O at Sarvam - **Company:** [Sarvam](https://feeny.ai/companies/sarvam) - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam/12fddb90-b98a-44bd-b9a0-76d679391618 ## Job description Job Title: HR Business Partner (HRBP) & People Ops Location: Bengaluru Employment Type: Fulltime ## About Sarvam Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with India's leading brands, including Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC. ## About the Role We're looking for an HR Business Partner & Operations to be a strategic and hands-on partner to our business leaders. You'll sit at the intersection of people strategy and execution : shaping how teams are structured, how performance and culture are managed, and making sure the operational backbone of HR (systems, policies, processes, compliance, data) runs without friction. This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who can move fluidly between advising leadership on organizational decisions and getting into the details of HR operations and systems to make those decisions real. ## Key Responsibilities Business Partnering - Partner closely with business and function leaders to understand their goals and translate them into HR strategies and structures that support scale. - Advise on organizational design, performance management, and career development as teams grow. - Act as a trusted advisor and change agent through periods of organizational transformation and rapid growth. - Address employee relations matters, lead investigations where needed, and resolve conflicts fairly and swiftly. People Operations & HR Systems - Own and continuously improve core HR processes across the employee lifecycle — onboarding, performance cycles, transfers, and exits. - Identify, evaluate, and implement HRMS tools for employee data, compensation, and performance management, ensuring the stack scales cleanly with headcount growth. - Ensure HR policies, labor law compliance, and documentation are current, consistent, and audit-ready. - Support compensation and benefits administration, including data accuracy, benchmarking inputs, and cycle execution. - Maintain and improve HR systems, dashboards, and reporting to give leadership clean, timely people data. - Support talent acquisition through workforce planning inputs and candidate evaluation where needed. Culture & Engagement - Drive employee engagement, retention, and development initiatives that fit a fast paced, high-growth, tech-first environment. - Champion a high performance, high trust culture aligned with Sarvam's mission and pace. ## Requirements - Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. - 5–8 years of HR experience, with at least 4 years in an HRBP, People Operations, or similar generalist role. - Hands-on experience in implementing HRMS/HRIS platforms (e.g., Darwinbox, Keka, Rippling, Lattice or similar) is strongly preferred. - Strong grounding in HR compliance, and process design. - Comfortable owning both strategic conversations with leaders and the operational details that make HR systems and processes work reliably. - Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills. - Thrives in a fast paced, high growth, ambiguity tolerant environment: startup or scale-up experience is a plus. Why Sarvam? - Sarvam is a fast moving, high talent density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population scale impact. - Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar. - High impact, high agency role shaping HR strategy and systems from the ground up at a fast scaling AI company. - Be part of a mission driven team building India's sovereign AI stack, with exposure to a wide range of HR challenges, from strategy to systems. If you’re passionate about shaping the people agenda in a mission first, cutting edge AI company, we’d love to hear from you! ## About Sarvam ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sarvam is building India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, delivering state-of-the-art models and enterprise-grade applications for Indic languages. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $41M raised) - **Headquarters**: Bengaluru, India - **Founded**: August 2023 - **Founders**: Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Dr. Pratyush Kumar ## Core Business - Primary industry: Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI - Target customers: Enterprises, Government, Developers (B2B, B2G) - Mission: Make AI widely accessible to everyone in India by building foundational components that reflect how the country thinks, speaks, reasons, and solves problems. ## Products & Services - **Sarvam Cloud**: Fully managed, automatically scaling API platform for Indic AI capabilities. - **Speech to Text (Saaras)**: High‑accuracy ASR across 12 Indic languages. - **Text to Speech (Bulbul)**: Natural voices across 11 Indic languages. - **Translation**: State‑of‑the‑art translation across 23 languages. - **Document Digitisation (Akshar)**: Convert PDFs and images into structured data. - **Vision Models**: Image understanding and processing. - **Samvaad**: Conversational AI studio for building voice agents. - **Arya**: AI‑for‑work platform with forward‑deployed engineers for custom agent design and integration. - **Deployment Options**: Private cloud, on‑premise, hybrid, or air‑gapped environments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Total funding $41M (from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners - **Growth Signals**: 62 open positions across engineering, models, product, sales, and more; case studies with large‑scale deployments (50,000+ farmer feedback calls, millions of policy calls); SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, DPDP compliant. ## Competitive Advantages - **Sovereign AI**: All technology developed and operated entirely in India, with full data control and compliance with Indian data protection laws. - **Full‑stack platform**: From foundational models to enterprise agents, everything built in‑house. - **Forward‑deployed engineering**: Dedicated engineers embedded with customer teams to ensure successful delivery. - **Population‑scale impact**: Proven ability to serve millions of users in Indic languages across government and BFSI. - **Deployment flexibility**: Can run on any infrastructure, including air‑gapped for regulated industries. ## Strategic Focus - Continue building state‑of‑the‑art models and tools for Indic languages. - Expand enterprise and government adoption of conversational AI agents. - Nurture the Indian AI ecosystem by open‑sourcing models and tools. - Scale team rapidly (62 open roles) to support growing customer demand. ## Why Work Here - **Mission‑driven opportunity**: Shape AI that serves India’s linguistic and cultural diversity. - **On‑site first**: All roles are based in Bengaluru (Delhi also available), fostering deep collaboration. - **Cutting‑edge work**: Foundational model research, ML infrastructure, full‑stack product engineering. - **High‑impact culture**: Teams work directly with customers via forward‑deployed engineers, seeing immediate real‑world use. - **Backed by top investors**: Financial stability and growth runway from Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. ## Sources 1. [sarvam.ai](https://www.sarvam.ai/) 2. [sarvam.ai/about-us](https://www.sarvam.ai/about-us) 3. [sarvam.ai/careers](https://www.sarvam.ai/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam) 5. 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