Talent Success Business Partner (8 Months Contract)
DigitalOcean · Posted Oct 15
Cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, managed database, and AI inference services
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About the role
DigitalOcean is expanding its People team in Hyderabad, supporting a global cloud and AI platform company that simplifies scalable cloud for builders. The People team drives HR processes, employee relations, performance management, and employee engagement across the region. This 8-month contract Talent Success Business Partner role (maternity backfill, reporting to the PBP Director) owns the India employee life-cycle, onboarding, local payroll support, and coaching of managers and senior managers across Hyderabad and APAC.
What you will do
- Support complete employee life-cycle processes for our India employees including onboarding, performance reviews, compensation/benefits, engagement survey and action planning, employee relations as well as off-boarding.
- Build relationships with managers and senior managers, be a trusted resource for their needs and escalate issues as necessary to the lead PBPs for quick resolutions.
- Have a strong understanding and working knowledge of people related policies, and assist in interpretation of such policies and standards.
- Support the development, recommendation, and implementation of policies, procedures and process improvements.
- Own the onboarding process for India including locally in Hyderabad as well as for any remote employees.
- Manage the ongoing operational needs of managers in the APAC region
- Support on local payroll in partnership with our local provider.
- Partner with PBP team on local communications including community events, benefits, compliance, holidays etc.
- Work with local leads and People team on employee issues
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience as a People generalist. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in HRIS System, Workday
- Experience working in a startup / fast paced / ambiguous environment
- Highly motivated entrepreneurial spirit, with the drive to understand business needs, respond promptly and proactive seek guidance to resolve concerns
- Strong process driven approach, ability to define processes for the region where there is a need
- Strong desire to collaborate with others within and outside of own department and area of expertise
- Exemplary professional integrity with the ability to maintain confidentiality and a sense of responsibility and accountability
- Ability to work effectively with organization members at senior manager levels. Well organized, flexible and enjoys the challenges of supporting an entire site.
- Strong people/interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships/collaborate with others
- Detail-oriented and extremely organized with an ability to multi-task & prioritize tasks
- Effective time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to understand business needs, consistently meet expectations and respond promptly and professionally to business requests, seeking guidance as appropriate.
Benefits and support
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
- Employee Assistance Program
- Local Employee Meetups
- Flexible time off policy
- Bonus in addition to base salary, determined based on company and individual performance
- Equity compensation, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider and AI-native cloud platform built for developers, startups, and small-to-medium-sized businesses. The company provides simple, scalable virtual machines, managed databases, Kubernetes, and specialized inference engines designed to run modern application and agentic AI workloads.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 1001-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2011-06-24
- Location
- Broomfield, Colorado, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $174M raised
- 2013-07-01Seed$3.2M
- 2014-03-01Series A$37.2M
- 2014-12-01Debt Financing$50M
- 2015-07-01Series B$83M
- 2016-04-01Debt Financing$130M
- 2020-05-01Venture Round$50M
- 2021-03-24IPO$775.5M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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