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# Talent and People Lead, India at Nightfall AI

- **Company:** Nightfall AI
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nightfall-ai/267bf8a2-c8a5-4612-9cf4-00ba3af286b7

## Job description

About Nightfall: Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce. Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others. About the role:

## About the Role

You will be joining Nightfall AI's People team as our Talent & People Lead for India, responsible for owning the full talent and people function across our Bengaluru office. This is a high-ownership role built for someone who knows how to recruit in the cybersecurity and data security space -- you will be hiring engineers, technical support, QA, and product talent across DLP, endpoint security, and AI-driven security domains. You will own recruiting end-to-end, manage onboarding, collaborate closely with our global People team, and serve as the on-the-ground people partner for our India team. If you thrive in a fast-moving startup environment, know the cybersecurity talent market in India, and want to own a region from recruiting through culture, this is the role for you.

## What You'll Do

- Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Own full-cycle recruiting across India-based roles including endpoint security engineers, DLP and data security specialists, QA engineers, technical support engineers, software engineers, and product managers. Source, screen, interview, and close candidates independently while maintaining a high bar for quality and speed.
- Agency Management Manage our external recruiting agency relationship -- set expectations, review sourced candidates, provide feedback, and hold partners accountable for pipeline quality and SLA.
- Onboarding Own the onboarding experience for all India hires -- from offer acceptance through day one and beyond. Partner with Nightfall's People Lead in the US and our controller to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience across both regions.
- People Operations Serve as the primary people partner for the Bengaluru office -- supporting employee relations, culture, and people programs in coordination with the US.
- Office Management Manage day-to-day operations of the Bengaluru office including vendor relationships, facilities, and anything needed to keep the team running smoothly and feeling supported.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration Work closely with Nightfall's People Lead in the US on hiring strategy, process consistency, and people initiatives. Partner with our controller on headcount planning, offer approvals, and compliance. Collaborate with hiring managers across engineering, product, and technical teams to move pipelines fast and make great hires.

## Qualifications

- 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a SaaS or technology company, with required experience hiring in the cybersecurity, DLP, endpoint security, or data security space -- startup or high-growth environment strongly preferred
- Experience hiring across technical roles -- software engineers, QA, technical support, and product managers
- Experience managing an external recruiting agency or RPO relationship
- Hands-on people operations or HR experience -- onboarding, employee relations, or office management
- Strong communicator who can collaborate effectively across time zones with a distributed global team
- Self-starter who can operate independently, move fast, and build process without a playbook
- Proficiency with AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT in a professional recruiting or people operations context is required
- Experience with an ATS is required -- Ashby experience is a strong plus

Our Culture Our employees are recognized as our top asset and we provide great benefits, meaningful equity participation, as well as a fun and inspiring environment to create and collaborate.

- Customer Centricity: Focus on exceeding customer expectations and placing them at the core of decisions
- Practicality over Perfection: Emphasis on efficient solutions and agile decision-making
- Strive for Excellence: Commitment to high standards and continuous improvement
- Transparent Communication: Encouragement of open, honest dialogue and collaborative trust
- Unwavering Resilience: Determination to overcome challenges and persist in achieving goals
- Have Fun: Foster a positive work environment that balances hard work with enjoyment and creativity

Environment Nightfall AI takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

## Compensation

Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits & perks, and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.

## About Nightfall AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nightfall AI is an AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, endpoints, email, browsers, and AI tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Rohan Sathe, Isaac Madan, Anant Mahajan

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Cybersecurity – Data Loss Prevention (DLP) & Insider Risk Management
- **Target Customers**: B2B, mid-market to enterprise (50-person startups to Fortune 500 companies)
- **Mission**: “Data protection has to work intelligently and invisibly, or it won’t work at all.” Nightfall aims to enable any company to secure sensitive data across every SaaS app, AI tool, and endpoint without disrupting workflows.

## Products & Services
- **AI-Native DLP Platform**: SaaS-based platform using 100+ AI models, LLM-based file classifiers, and computer vision to classify content with 95% accuracy. Includes data lineage tracking that traces information from source to destination.
- **API-Based SaaS Integrations**: Deploys in minutes across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, Atlassian, Zendesk, Notion, and more.
- **Endpoint Agents**: Lightweight agents for macOS and Windows (deployed via MDM) that monitor data movement and enforce policies.
- **Browser Plugins**: Real-time protection for AI apps (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, Perplexity, etc.) – blocks sensitive data from being pasted or uploaded.
- **Shadow AI Security**: Purpose-built to prevent data leaks to generative AI tools, including both prompts and file uploads.
- **Automated Remediation**: Context-aware actions such as blocking, redacting, revoking access, quarantining, or encrypting data. 80% of incidents resolved via automation or self-remediation.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $60.3M (as of CB Insights)
- **Latest Round**: $40M Series B (raised ~4 years ago)
- **Notable Investors**: Venrock, Bain Capital Ventures. Also backed by a “cadre of CEOs, investors, professional athletes, and experts across infosec, AI, and enterprise software.”
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Detection precision: 95% (vs legacy DLP at 5-25%)
  - Typical time to first discovery of violations: 24 hours
  - Full deployment coverage in under one month
  - Average 6x ROI within first 90 days
  - POC timeline: 2 weeks
- **Growth Signals**: Strong emphasis on securing AI tool usage (Shadow AI), expanding endpoint coverage, and replacing legacy DLP tools. Leadership team has experience scaling companies to $100M+ ARR (e.g., Cyberhaven, Abnormal Security).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Accuracy**: 95% out-of-the-box precision eliminates weeks of tuning and reduces false positives.
- **Data Lineage**: Tracks data as it moves, transforms, or is copied – catches exfiltration that regex-based tools miss.
- **Rapid Deployment**: API-based integrations in hours; no network architecture changes; zero productivity disruption.
- **Continuous Learning**: Models improve automatically, reducing false positives over time.
- **Vendor Consolidation**: Replaces multiple legacy tools (regex DLP, CASB, endpoint DLP, etc.) with a single platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Securing AI Adoption**: Blocking data leaks to generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) while enabling safe innovation.
- **Expanding MCP Visibility**: Monitoring data movement across AI agents, MCP servers, and new attack surfaces.
- **Reducing Operational Overhead**: Using automation and employee self-remediation (80% of incidents) to lighten security team workload.
- **Platform Unification**: Positioning as a “Data Detection & Response” platform to replace legacy vendor sprawl.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: “Intelligent and invisible” data protection; team of ML engineers, security practitioners, and product builders from Uber, Harness, Microsoft, Code42, Rubrik, etc.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive pay, equity, 401k plan; regular compensation reviews; support for professional development.
- **Flexibility**: Flexible time off, company-wide holidays, flexible commuter options, generous parental leave. Remote/hybrid options available (home office reimbursement included).
- **Wellness**: Comprehensive health, vision, dental; reimbursement for home office, fitness, and mental wellness expenses.
- **Team**: Leadership with experience scaling from startup to $100M+ ARR; collaborative environment focused on engineering excellence and customer impact.
- **Open Roles**: Positions listed on [jobs.ashbyhq.com/nightfall-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nightfall-ai) – new openings added frequently.

## Sources
1. [Nightfall AI – Homepage](https://www.nightfall.ai/)
2. [Nightfall AI – About Page](https://www.nightfall.ai/about)
3. [Nightfall AI – Careers Page](https://www.nightfall.ai/careers)
4. [CB Insights – Nightfall AI Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/nightfall-ai)
5. [Nightfall AI Job Board (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nightfall-ai)

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