# Manager – Talent Management

- Link: https://100xfounder.com/job/zeta-manager-talent-management-a70e42/
- Published: 2026-09-28T15:56:48+05:30
- Author: Ishaan Vardhan

### About Us

### Build the future of banking.

[Zeta](https://www.zeta.tech/in/) is a next-generation banking technology company
providing cloud-native, fully stackable processing and core banking platforms for
issuers. With a focus on scalability, compliance, and innovation, Zeta empowers 
financial institutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and deliver 
secure, seamless digital banking experiences.

### Our Impact and Growth

Our impact runs at real-world scale. Today, **over 25 million cards are live on 
Zeta-powered platforms across 7 countries, supported by a passionate team of 1,700
+ Zetanauts** across India, the US, EMEA, and Asia. Backed by** SoftBank Vision 
Fund, Mastercard**, and other reputed strategic investors, we reached a valuation
of **$2 billion** in Jan 1, 2025.

### Our Product Lines

Our focus is on establishing product lines that focus on key outcomes by addressing
real customer pain points, modernizing legacy systems, and strengthening core fundamentals.
As a result, our systems and platforms support a wide range of banking and payments
capabilities, including:

1. **Tachyon**, our cloud-native banking stack built for population-scale systems

2. **Cipher**, our unified authentication platform for secure, high-volume banking
environments

3. **Digital Credit as a Service**, enabling banks to launch credit lines on UPI

4.** Elena**, our intelligent and conversational AI platform for banking

5. **Pixel**, India’s first digital-native credit card, launched in partnership 
with **HDFC Bank**, for whom we also revamped their **PayZapp **mobile app: Winner
of the **Celent Model Bank Award for Payments Innovation 2024**

6. **Sparrow**, the leading card experience for non-prime cardholders in the US

…and more across cards, payments, lending, and core banking.

### Our Culture and Values

We are an engineering-first organization that values ownership, bias for action,
and long-term thinking. Together, we solve some of the hardest problems in banking
tech. Our culture is built around trust, collaboration, and creating the conditions
for you to drive impact proportionate to your potential. Reinforcing our commitment
to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace, we have been consistently recognized
as a **Great Place to Work**.

**If you want to build cutting-edge banking tech that enables banks to serve millions
reliably, securely, and at a population scale, Zeta is your playground.**

Learn More About Zeta

If you would like to learn more about how we have grown and evolved over the years,
[**watch our journey here**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8RZCTbRzw8). You can
also explore [**our website**](https://www.zeta.tech/in/) and follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zetasuite/)**,**
[**Instagram,**](https://www.instagram.com/lifeatzeta)[**YouTube**](https://www.youtube.com/@Zetasuite)**,
and **[**X**](https://x.com/zetasuite?lang=en)**.**

### About the Role

The incumbent will be part of Zeta’s talent management CoE. The individual will 
be expected to contribute towards building the overall talent strategy at Zeta and
ensuring its translation into meaningful programs and initiatives that shape the
employee experience. A key focus of the role is to work on initiatives across talent
planning, career development, performance management, competency creation and engagement
with the People Success team to create a culture focused on unparalleled learning
and career growth.

### Responsibilities

### Career architecture and competencies

 * Design job families, levels, career ladders and levelling criteria.
 * Build functional and leadership competency frameworks with behavioural indicators
   for each level.
 * Redesign the architecture when roles or structures change.

### Performance management

 * Design and run the full performance cycle: goals (OKRs or KPIs), check-ins, reviews
   and calibration.
 * Link performance outcomes to promotions, rewards and development.

### Talent reviews and succession

 * Design and run regular talent reviews that assess employees on both performance
   and potential.
 * Identify high-potential employees, critical talent and retention risks across
   the organisation.
 * Identify critical roles and build succession plans for them, with successors 
   mapped by how ready they are.
 * Design development plans for successors and high-potential employees.
 * Track pipeline health through bench strength, successor readiness and internal
   fill rates.

### Organisational change and design

 * Assess the impact of restructures on roles, levels and career paths.
 * Design and run the people side of each transition.

### Talent strategy and analytics

 * Build the talent strategy and the annual talent calendar.
 * Track talent metrics: performance distribution, internal mobility, bench strength
   and regretted attrition.

### Skills

Strong **analytical and data interpretation skills**.

Proficiency in **HRIS platforms** such as Darwinbox, Workday, or SuccessFactors.

Strong understanding of **talent management and organisational development practices**.

### Experience & Qualification

MBA in **Human Resources** or a related field.

6–8 years of experience in **Talent Management or Organisational Development**, 
preferably in a Consulting, Technology, or Fintech organisation.

Hands-on experience in designing **career architecture, competency frameworks, and
performance management systems**.

Experience in **talent reviews, succession planning, and organisational change**.

### Equal Opportunity

Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed 
to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants 
from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply and believe that a diverse
workforce is key to our success