Vice President Human Resources

Role: Vice President - Human Resources

Location: Bengaluru, India

About Signzy

At Signzy, we're solving for lasting first impressions and seamless new beginnings. Signzy is the market leader in digital banking infrastructure and helps you build trust without hassle. We offer digital onboarding, identity verification, and monitoring solutions across 180+ countries through 340+ APIs. Our APIs can be easily added to any workflow with simple widgets and help you with KYC, KYB, AML, fraud checks, bank account verification, and age verification. We work with over 10 Fortune 30 companies, all the largest banks in India, a Top 3 acquiring Bank in the US, and have a strong global partnership with Mastercard and Microsoft. Signzy has helped businesses like Stripe, HDFC, Paypal, Emirates NBD, and AmazonPay be more secure and globally compliant.

Role Overview

The Vice President Human Resources will lead Signzy's people strategy, culture, and HR governance. This role partners closely with the CEO and leadership team to build a high-performance, compliant, and values-driven organization, ensuring strong talent, leadership capability, and employee experience.

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent Strategy

• Define and execute the overall HR and people strategy aligned with business objectives
• Lead workforce planning, leadership development, and succession planning

Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding

• Oversee hiring across leadership, technology, product, sales, and operations
• Strengthen employer branding and ensure consistent, high-quality hiring practices

Performance, Rewards & ESOPs

• Own performance management frameworks, goal setting, and appraisal cycles
• Design and manage compensation, variable pay, and ESOP programs aligned with market benchmarks and internal equity.

Learning, Leadership & Culture

• Build leadership and people-manager capability across the organization
• Champion company culture, values, and employee engagement initiatives

HR Operations, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure compliance with Indian labor laws, POSH, data protection, and employment regulations
• Oversee HR operations including policies, payroll, benefits, audits, and HR systems

Organizational Effectiveness

• Support organizational changes and leadership initiatives
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and employees on people matters

Qualifications & Experience

• 1015+ years of senior HR leadership experience, preferably in fintech, SaaS, or technology-led organizations.
• Strong knowledge of Indian labor laws and HR governance
• Experience working closely with founders, leadership teams, and boards
• Proven capability in compensation design, ESOPs, and performance management
• Strong leadership, judgment, and communication skills.