Manager People Operations

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. POSITION SUMMARY: As the Shared Services Manager for People Operations, India, you will lead and scale Harness's India-based People Operations shared services function. You'll build, manage, and develop a team responsible for onboarding, offboarding, compliance administration, HRIS data integrity, and Workday operations, while serving as an India-based Workday super-user following our December 2026 go-live. You will also lead India-based coordination of U.S. H-1B and green card case administration, partnering closely with Harness' U.S. based People Operations team. The ideal candidate is a player coach and combines proven people-management experience with genuine hands-on Workday expertise, is comfortable building scalable processes in an ambiguous, high-growth environment, and can represent India's operational needs to Harness’ global People Operations team and cross-functional stakeholders. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Hire, lead, coach, and develop a growing India-based People Operations shared services team, setting goals, KPIs, and SLAs for ticket resolution and case management Own end-to-end accountability for ticket SLA performance across the global ticketing system; build escalation procedures and reporting for leadership Drive India employment-law compliance for People Operations processes, updating policies and procedures as regulations evolve Ensure annual compliance training for the India location