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 teampretty much everything you have heard about a startup.
Ideal Candidate
You are a strategic People leader who thinks like a business operator. You have partnered closely with founders and senior leadership in high-growth, technically complex environments and understand how to translate business ambition into a clear, executable people roadmap.
You bring depth in building systems for specialised talent, particularly engineering, R&D, or deep-tech teams, and know how to attract, engage, and retain high-calibre technical professionals. You are comfortable designing org structures, performance frameworks, and compensation philosophies that balance research rigour with execution speed.
You combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You can design long-term workforce plans while also rolling up your sleeves to solve immediate scaling challenges. You are data-driven, structured, and decisive, but equally attuned to culture, leadership dynamics, and organisational health.
Responsibilities
- People Strategy & Founder Partnership
- Act as a trusted advisor to founders and leadership, deeply understanding business goals, product roadmap, and long-term vision.
- Design and execute a people strategy aligned with scale, speed, and technical excellence.
- Anticipate organisation-level challenges during rapid growth and proactively address them.
- Talent Management & Retention
- Build frameworks for hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career progression for specialised engineers, R&D, and deep tech workforce
- Drive retention strategies for niche talent (space tech, deep-tech, advanced engineering).
- Design compensation philosophy, ESOP communication, and long-term incentives in partnership with leadership.
- Organisation Development & Culture
- Shape and institutionalise Digantara's culture, values, and ways of working as the company scales.
- Build org structures that balance research depth, execution speed, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Lead initiatives around leadership development, succession planning, and manager capability building.
- Talent Acquisition (Strategic Oversight)
- Own hiring strategy for niche technical roles in collaboration with tech leaders.
- Build strong employer branding in the space-tech / deep-tech ecosystem.
- Enable scalable recruitment processes while maintaining a high bar for quality.
- Performance, Learning & Growth
- Implement performance management systems that are fair, data-driven, and growth-oriented.
- Identify skill gaps and drive learning interventions for both technical and non-technical teams.
- Support first-time managers and technical leaders in people leadership.
- HR Governance & Compliance
- Ensure HR operations, policies, and compliance are robust and future-ready.
- Balance flexibility needed in a startup with discipline required for scale.
- Oversee payroll, policies, audits, and employee lifecycle processes (with team support).
Qualifications
- 1014+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 57 years in a leadership role.
- Past experience in working in growth stage, tech-first ventures and working closely with founders to navigate and build people strategy
- Experience scaling organizations from 100 to 300+ employees is highly desirable.
Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru
