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# Senior HR Business Partner, India at OpenAI

- **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai)
- **Location:** Mumbai, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/a3825ab9-72b7-4ce3-89f0-9def7b7b15af

## Job description

## About the Team

The HR Business Partner team at OpenAI supports managers and employees as teams grow, perform and adapt. We work alongside managers at all levels to resolve day-to-day people challenges, build management capability and create the conditions for teams to do their best work. Our expertise spans team effectiveness, talent development, manager coaching, employee relations and change management, grounded in our Contributions & Impact (C&I) culture. We operate with urgency, empathy and sound judgment, valuing sincerity, collaboration and meaningful impact.

## About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior HR Business Partner. This role will primarily support teams in India, with a focus on Go-to-Market and selected other functions. The portfolio may also include support for teams in other APAC markets as business needs evolve. You’ll provide hands-on support to managers at all levels, owning day-to-day people work and helping teams grow and scale effectively. Your GTM partnership will span teams such as Sales, Technical Success, Partnerships and Marketing. Across your portfolio, you’ll build a deep understanding of business priorities and use that context to prioritise and deliver practical people support. As a hands-on partner to managers at all levels, you will use independent judgment to coach managers, resolve people issues and follow through on day-to-day work as teams scale. You will own delivery across your portfolio, working closely with the International HRBP Leader, Recruiting, Finance, Employment Legal and People centres of expertise, and involving specialist partners when needed. This is an individual contributor role, based in Mumbai or Bangalore. We operate in a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week.

## Your Key Responsibilities

- Own day-to-day people support across your portfolio, with a primary focus on GTM. Be a practical point of contact for managers on performance, employee relations, team changes and development. Prioritise issues, agree clear next steps and see them through to resolution as teams scale.
- Support teams as they grow. Help managers put agreed team structures and workforce plans into practice, clarify roles and address capacity needs as teams across your portfolio grow and scale existing operations. Coordinate with Finance and Recruiting to support hiring and team changes.
- Build manager effectiveness. Coach managers at all levels, from first-time managers to experienced people managers, on feedback, difficult conversations, team dynamics and accountability. Help them address everyday people challenges with clarity and care.
- Build capability and succession. Help managers identify skills and development needs across GTM teams. Partner on talent reviews, succession planning, internal mobility and development, with particular attention to roles essential to customer and business outcomes.
- Drive performance and rewards decisions. Help managers set clear expectations, address underperformance and recognise contributions consistently. Partner with Compensation and Sales Compensation specialists on people implications of incentive structures, role changes and rewards decisions.
- Lead through organisational change. Guide organisational changes and sensitive employee matters across your portfolio, partnering with Employment Legal and Employee Relations specialists. Balance business urgency, local requirements and fair, consistent treatment.
- Use insight to act early. Combine workforce data, business context and employee feedback to identify emerging risks, test assumptions and recommend action. Track whether interventions improve capability, retention and team effectiveness.
- Scale effective People practices. Partner with global HRBPs and centres of expertise to evolve performance, engagement and talent programmes across your portfolio, ensuring local needs inform global decisions and local delivery remains practical.

## What You Bring

- Substantial HRBP experience. Typically 7–10+ years in HR, including at least five years supporting managers and teams in high-growth, international or complex organisations. We value the scope and impact of your experience.
- Commercial understanding. Experience supporting Sales and other go-to-market functions, with an understanding of enterprise sales cycles, customer-facing roles and the people implications of commercial operating models.
- Hands-on manager partnership. A record of supporting managers at all levels, resolving day-to-day people issues and owning delivery across a busy portfolio. You can exercise independent judgment, challenge constructively and build trusted relationships.
- India experience. Experience supporting teams in India, navigating local business and employment environments, with sound judgment about when to involve specialist partners.
- Organisational and talent judgment. Practical experience supporting team growth, workforce planning, manager coaching, performance management and talent development, including delivering change through ambiguity.
- Analytical and execution strength. The ability to diagnose problems using data and context, make clear recommendations and follow through. You prioritise effectively, take ownership of complex people issues and stay close to the details through resolution.
- Integrity and care. Discretion with sensitive matters, fairness in decision-making and a willingness to listen, adapt and act with conviction.

## About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see [OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf). Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through [this form](https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA). No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this [link](https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241). [OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf) At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

## About OpenAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private – structured as a nonprofit parent (OpenAI Foundation) governing a for-profit public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group). The company has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, signaling a potential future IPO.
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, and others

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence research and deployment
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises via API and platform), B2C (ChatGPT users), and developers (API, open-source models)
- **Mission**: To ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefits all of humanity.

## Products & Services
- **[ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt)**: Conversational AI assistant available via web and mobile, used by consumers and integrated into enterprise workflows.
- **[GPT-4 API](https://openai.com/product)**: Large language model accessed via API for developers to build AI-powered applications (text generation, summarization, code assistance, etc.).
- **[DALL-E](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)**: Image generation model that creates images from natural language descriptions.
- **[Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)**: Open-source speech recognition system.
- **[OpenAI Agents](https://openai.com/)**: Emerging product category focused on autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of users (announced June 2026).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed in the provided sources. Widely reported in the press at ~$300 billion as of early 2026 (post-funding round), but this figure is not confirmed by OpenAI’s official materials.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $13 billion from Microsoft and other investors. The company has also confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC (see [openai.com](https://openai.com/) – “Confidential submission of draft S-1”).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (strategic partner and largest investor), with additional participation from Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 721 open roles posted; expansion into agent-based products; confidential IPO filing; continued deployment of frontier models.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & brand recognition**: ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, establishing OpenAI as the household name in generative AI.
- **Research leadership**: Consistently publishes cutting-edge research (GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, etc.) and attracts top AI talent.
- **Compute & infrastructure**: Exclusive partnership with Microsoft provides massive cloud computing resources (Azure) for training and inference.
- **Unique governance structure**: The nonprofit parent ensures mission alignment (AGI benefiting humanity) while the for-profit arm can raise capital and scale products.

## Strategic Focus
- **Safe AGI development**: Continued emphasis on safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment (e.g., safety systems, model provenance).
- **Enterprise expansion**: Growing ChatGPT Enterprise and API offerings for businesses.
- **Agentic AI**: Building autonomous agents that can “transform work” (announced June 2026).
- **IPO preparation**: Confidential S-1 filing indicates intent to go public, which will require increased financial transparency and governance maturity.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: OpenAI’s stated values include “Humanity first,” “Act with humility,” “Feel the AGI,” and “Ship joy.” Operating principles emphasize agency, creativity, rapid iteration, and intense focus.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, mental healthcare support, 24-week paid birth-parent leave (plus 20 weeks for other parents), generous PTO, annual learning & development stipend, daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and a domestic conference budget.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office-based (San Francisco headquarters). The company offers a residency program for researchers and engineers transitioning into AI.
- **Impact**: Employees work directly on frontier AI models that shape the industry and society. The mission-driven nature attracts talent passionate about AGI’s societal implications.

## Sources
1. [OpenAI About Page](https://openai.com/about/)
2. [OpenAI Careers Page](https://openai.com/careers/)
3. [OpenAI Job Search](https://openai.com/careers/search)
4. [OpenAI Homepage](https://openai.com/)

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