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.
- 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, SEBI regulations (where applicable), and other relevant 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 in compliance 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.
- Manage FEMA-related secretarial compliances and coordinate regulatory filings pertaining to foreign investments and cross-border transactions.
- 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, due diligence, restructuring, and other corporate transactions from a secretarial and governance perspective.
- Continuously strengthen governance frameworks, compliance processes, and internal controls across the organization.
Qualifications
- Fellow or Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) (FCS/ACS).
- 8–10+ years of post-qualification experience as a Company Secretary, preferably in a high-growth, technology, aerospace, manufacturing, or multinational organization.
- Strong expertise in the Companies Act, 2013, Secretarial Standards, FEMA regulations, 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 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.
Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru
