[Hiring] HR Business Partner @Contour Education

Role Description

This is a remote position.

HR Business Partner (HRBP) - Remote (India) | Full-time

Could you build the systems for India's people function, and still take the hardest matters on yourself?

On a typical day you might:

• Coach a manager through a performance conversation they have been putting off in the morning.
• Moderate ratings for two squads after lunch.
• Close a leaver's paperwork with the payroll bureau by day's end.

You are the first dedicated people owner for Contour in India:

• Employee relations, exits, performance, pay reviews, compliance, attrition, and engagement.
• Line managers rate their own people and hold the hard conversations themselves; you calibrate across the org and design the process underneath.
• No central HR desk; you work directly with the pod leads.
• Lead the People team, including a coordinator who looks after HRIS hygiene, onboarding, and offboarding.
• Make this a place people want to stay by leading engagement surveys and tracking why people leave.

Qualifications

• An India termination you handled yourself, including letters, liabilities, and settlements.
• A contested investigation or grievance where your process held.
• A calibration across several squads where you moved a manager off a rating they were attached to.
• A policy you wrote and rolled out that managers and team members actually follow.
• An engagement project or event you ran that left people more energized and engaged.
• A call you stood behind against someone senior and were right about, and one where you were wrong and changed it.
• Someone you managed directly, with the coaching record to show for it.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Labour Codes, POSH, and statutory benefits (PF, ESI, gratuity, professional tax).
• Ability to audit where we stand and fix what is missing.

Benefits

• Fully remote, anywhere in India.
• Comfortable working across the India and Australia time difference, with occasional travel.
• Competitive compensation benchmarked to the role and your experience.

Company Description

Contour started in 2020 as one classroom in a university library. Today we operate across three brands with more than 10,000 students and about 500 team members across Australia and India.

• The India team runs delivery, automation, people, and operations for the whole organization.
• The GCC is growing faster than the people function behind it.