Senior Human Resources Business Partner

kAIgentic is building the intelligence layer for the world's most ambitious enterprises. Headquartered in Singapore with teams in India and Japan, our software platform helps large organizations evolve as fast as technology itself by turning the tacit know-how locked inside their people into safe, governed, AI-powered operations.

The hardest part of enterprise transformation is not strategy. It is execution. Institutional knowledge lives in people's heads, systems are fragmented, and risk tolerance is low. kAIgentic captures how work actually happens, designs better workflows, and runs them inside an intelligence layer that is observable, auditable, and engineered for the most regulated environments on earth. The outcome is an enterprise that continuously improves.

We are backed by SMBC Group as our founding partner and customer zero, and our platform is already being proven inside one of the most complex, regulated operating environments in the world. That means real problems, real data, and real production impact from Day 1.

The Role

Establish the HR team’s strategic influence on kAIgentic’s intelligence layer, shaping people systems that embed AI throughout the employee lifecycle. Drive the most complex, high-stakes initiatives, building an AI-native culture, designing the early-career talent engine, and ensuring compliant, data-driven HR operations across the organization.

This is a role for a hands-on, systems-thinking HR professional who wants to do more than run processes. You will translate our values of customer obsession, courage, care, and curiosity into how the company actually operates, and you will partner with our tech team to shape AI-first people systems where the work is real and directly tied to how kAIgentic grows.

What You’ll Do

• Architect the end-to-end employee experience framework, defining onboarding, performance cycles, career conversations, and exit processes that align with AI-driven insights.

• Drive the design and rollout of AI-enabled HR workflows, including performance reviews, listening mechanisms, policy Q&A, and people analytics dashboards.

• Establish a data-quality and analytics foundation by implementing and governing the HRIS, building actionable dashboards, and ensuring clean, reliable people data.

• Influence the employer brand and employee value proposition in partnership with Talent Acquisition, creating champion communities and external content that attract top talent.

• Drive the early-career talent engine, shaping institution partnerships, internship programs, fellowships, and structured learning paths that deliver immediate impact.

• Establish a continuous engagement loop, deploying pulse surveys, team connects, and recognition forums, and translating employee signals into concrete actions with managers.

• Influence senior leadership by providing data-backed recommendations on culture, friction points, and manager effectiveness, and partnering to resolve issues swiftly.

• Mentor junior HR partners and business leaders on best practices for AI-native people processes and equitable decision-making.
  
  What You’ll Bring

• Proven expertise delivering enterprise-wide HR strategy and AI-enabled people systems in high-growth, regulated environments.

• AI-native velocity as a default mode of working

• Deep mastery of HRIS platforms, data governance, and people analytics tools, with hands-on experience building dashboards and ensuring data integrity.

• Track record of shaping high-performance culture through values-driven programs and behavioral frameworks.

• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear HR solutions, navigating regulatory and data-privacy constraints.

• Sound judgment, discretion, and fairness in handling sensitive employee matters, with a collaborative communication style.

• Expertise in designing AI-native workflows for performance management, feedback loops, and policy automation is a Big Plus

• Strong capability in talent acquisition partnership, employer branding, and early-career talent program development is a Big Plus.

• Influential partnership skills with senior leaders, using data and clear rationale to drive decisions.

Why join kAIgentic?

We are a global team of builders who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about the customers we serve, and believe the intelligence layer is how enterprise work will be reshaped over the next decade. We are building the connective tissue that lets large companies operate with the speed of a startup and the trust of an institution.

We look for people who:

• Combine technical excellence with genuine customer empathy.

• Are entrepreneurial and energized by zero-to-one problems with no playbook.

• Lead with ownership, integrity, and collaboration, not titles.

• Want to help define a new category of enterprise AI, not just ship inside an existing one.

• Working here means being surrounded by peers who challenge assumptions, celebrate progress, and build with both courage and care.

Life at kAIgentic

• Intelligence layer at the core. You will be shaping the substrate that turns institutional knowledge into governed, production-grade operations. This is enterprise infrastructure with real consequences.

• Innovation at enterprise scale. Startup velocity meets the depth, scale, and stakes of mission-critical, regulated environments. Both are non-negotiable.

• Ownership from Day One. Your work directly shapes the product, the culture, and the outcomes our customers see.

• Learning and growth. You will work alongside seasoned leaders from leading enterprises who have built and scaled global businesses.

• A culture of trust. Psychological safety, transparent disagreement, and disciplined experimentation are how we operate, not slogans on a wall.

• Global collaboration. Teams across Singapore, India, Japan, Europe, and the US, working as one.

• A mission worth the effort. Building something the world has not seen before: anintelligence layer that helps enterprises continuously improve how they run.