Manager Strategic Initiatives Team

Role Overview

We are hiring a Manager – People IPO Readiness & Governance to act as the strategic People Team’s representative for InMobi’s IPO journey. This role is responsible for designing, executing, coordinating, and governing all People & Culture work streams required for IPO readiness, ensuring timely execution by respective functional owners.

This is not a functional execution role. Instead, the role works closely with the Chief of Staff to the People Team, and partners with Legal, Finance, Rewards, ESOP advisors, PBPs, Consultants, and senior leadership to ensure that all People-related IPO requirements are clearly scoped, owned, sequenced, and closed. The role serves as the single-threaded coordinator and governance owner for People IPO readiness across board governance, leadership continuity, compensation & ESOPs, compliance, policy alignment, culture & communication, and DRHP / audit support.

The role will be part of S&O team within People function and hence can take on additional charters in future.

• Act as the central PMO for all People & Culture IPO work streams, ensuring disciplined execution, tight coordination, and proactive risk management across functions.
• Own end-to-end tracking of all People IPO readiness work streams, milestones, and dependencies across Legal, Finance, Rewards, HR Ops, PBPs, and external advisors.
• Establish and maintain a single, integrated IPO People plan with clear ownership, timelines, and success criteria for each deliverable.
• Run regular execution cadences (weekly / bi-weekly) to review progress, identify risks, and unblock issues across work streams.
• Provide clear, concise status updates to the Chief of Staff, CHRO, and senior leadership, highlighting progress, risks, and required decisions.
• Proactively surface risks, gaps, and slippages, assess impact, and coordinate corrective actions with relevant owners.
• Act as the issue-resolution engine—driving closure through follow-ups, escalations, and decision facilitation.
• Ensure documentation discipline, version control, and audit trails across all IPO-related People artefacts.
• Create a repeatable IPO PMO playbook for the People function that can sustain through listing and post-IPO governance.

• Coordinate with People Leadership, PBPs, and Leadership Development teams to track readiness on board composition, leadership continuity, and key hiring actions aligned to IPO expectations.
• Drive documentation readiness by working with functional owners on:
  Org structures, Role charters, Functional org charts.
• Track leadership and critical role mapping to a future-state, public-company-ready org structure.
• Identify key-person dependencies, surface risks, and coordinate mitigation planning with owners.

• Act as the PMO for employment compliance readiness across contracts, severance terms, and statutory requirements (EPF, ESIC, PoSH, IC, etc.).
• Coordinate with Legal and HR Ops on compliance audits across geographies and legal entities.
• Track documentation readiness across employment records, policies, and governance artefacts, ensuring gaps are flagged and closed by relevant owners.

• Coordinate between Finance, Legal, Rewards, and external advisors on: ESOP pool sizing, Equity benchmarking, Dilution modelling, IPO‑aligned LTI design.
• Track readiness of ESOP policy documentation, grant validation, NRC approvals, and award letter templates.
• Support planning and coordination for buybacks, employee communication, and perception management.
• Ensure regulatory and disclosure requirements related to equity and insider trading are tracked and addressed by owners.

• Act as the central coordinator for policy harmonisation efforts led by functional teams.
• Track progress on employee handbook finalisation and governance documentation required for disclosures.
• Support coordination for Board and NRC charter preparation with Legal and the CHRO’s office.
• Track alignment of performance management…