People & Culture Director

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams. SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s best-loved brands include Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com , or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit. At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission. People & Culture Director This is a pivotal role for SmartBear's India operations, combining hands-on HRBP partnership with company-wide accountability for statutory compliance. As HRBP to your assigned function, you'll partner with senior business leaders to align People & Culture strategies with business priorities, coach leaders on talent, performance, and organizational effectiveness, and drive strategic people initiatives that build high-performing, engaged, and inclusive teams. You'll also serve as India's statutory compliance expert, owning alignment with Indian labor law across all India-based SmartBear employees including those outside your HRBP client group, regardless of function or reporting line, in partnership with our Director of Global People Operations. About the Role: Partner with business leaders to align People & Culture strategies with organizational goals and translate business priorities into actionable people plans. Coach and advise managers on performance management, employee development, organizational design, compensation, and employee relations. Analyze employee engagement survey results and develop action plans with leaders. Develop and implement talent retention strategies that enhance employee experience. Serve as a trusted advisor, influencing leaders through data, business insight, and People & Culture expertise. Collaborate across the People & Culture organization to deliver consistent, scalable, and impactful people programs. Partner with global People & Culture teams to adapt enterprise-wide programs to local legal and cultural context. The successful candidate will work from our Bengaluru, India office in hybrid model. India Statutory Compliance (all India employees): Own compliance with Indian labor law — including the Industrial Relations Code, Shops & Establishments Act, and related regulations — for every India-based employee, regardless of which function or HRBP they are otherwise supported by, serving as SmartBear's go-to expert on India employment regulation. Partner with the Director of Global People Operations, Legal, and other HRBPs to maintain visibility into employment actions (hiring, compensation changes, terminations) across functions, so compliance risk is caught even outside your direct client group. Serve as the single point of accountability and escalation for India regulatory questions raised by other HRBPs or business leaders. We are looking for you if you have: 8+ years of experience in a senior People Partner or HR Business Partner role, ideally within a high-growth technology environment. Demonstrated success partnering w…