Company overview
- Sector
- Banking, Financial Services & Insurance
- Sub-sector
- Insurance
- Mandate (derived)
- Sales, Marketing & BD
- Parent headquarters
- Gurugram, Haryana, India
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $3,900,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 9,900
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Gurugram
- Noida
- Mumbai
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- AI
- ANGEL LMS
- AWS Transfer for SFTP
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- Absorb LMS
- Adobe CQ
- Amazon AWS Platform
- Amazon Route 53
- Android
- Arista EOS
- Atex
- Azure Pipelines
- Azure Service Fabric
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- BoldChat
Public leadership
Akshat Ambedkar
Assistant Vice President Human Resources
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
Max Life Insurance Company Ltd. is an 80:20 joint venture between Max Financial Services and Axis Bank, founded in 2000 following liberalization of India's insurance sector; rebranded as Axis Max Life Insurance on 13 December 2024. Described as the largest non-bank private-sector life insurer in India, with roughly 25,000 employees and ~₹2,00,000 crore in AUM (as of June 2026).
- India launch
- 2000
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
The company's own careers page organizes its workforce into four pillars - Sales, Operations, Technology, and Enabling Functions - run out of its Gurugram corporate hub, with public reporting showing the same hub driving core-system cloud modernization, AI-driven sales analytics, and GenAI marketing tooling alongside customer operations and distribution.
Timeline
- 2000
Max Life (originally Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited) established after liberalization of India's insurance sector; operations commenced 2001.
- 2024
Completed migration of core systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure across Mumbai and Hyderabad regions ('Project Akash'), delivering up to ~70% application performance improvement.
- 2024
Rebranded from Max Life Insurance to Axis Max Life Insurance on 13 December 2024 following Axis Bank's increased stake.
Real estate
description: Corporate office at 11th Floor, DLF Square Building, Jacaranda Marg, DLF City Phase II, Sector 25, Gurugram, Haryana 122002; separate registered office at Plot No. 90-C, Sector-18, Urban Estate, Gurugram, Haryana 122015.
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- Not disclosed
- As of
- 2026-08-26
- Technology
- Operations
- Sales
- Enabling Functions
News and developments
Max Life Insurance migrates mission-critical systems to Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI
Completed a sub-5-month migration of customer service, claims, marketing and policy-issuance systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Mumbai/Hyderabad), reporting up to 70% application performance gains for ~4.2 million active customers.
2024-02-08 CXOToday ↗
Max Life plans to hire 30,000 agents and open up to 100 offices in FY25
Company announced large-scale agent hiring and new office openings as part of a market-share growth push.
2024-05-21 Business Standard ↗
Axis Max Life deploys GreyLabs AI Voice AI Suite across sales operations
Rolled out AI-led call analysis covering 700+ sales agents and 600,000+ calls, replacing selective manual review with 100% AI-led assessment and reporting ~15% improvement in sales conversions.
2026-07-07 CXOToday ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.