About Karya:
Why was Karya on the cover of the Time Magazine , highlighted by Satya Nadella , and chosen by Google as its partner for Project Vaani?
In part, because Karya is on a mission to provide AI enabled earning and learning opportunities to economically underserved communities, thereby building a pathway out of poverty for them. Karya achieves this while also delivering high quality, timely, and price competitive data to its clients.
Karya’s workers make at least 20 times the Indian minimum wage and through our one-of-a-kind digital work platform, we have delivered over 40 million digital tasks and are poised to positively impact over 100 thousand workers by the end of the year. In the coming years, our goal is to rapidly scale our impact by bringing economic opportunities to millions of underserved users in India.
As the Outreach Manager - Advanced Cohort, you will be a key driver in Karya’s journey to scale its impact. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and manage partnerships with key Karya stakeholders to build Karya’s workforce of data specialists. These stakeholders would range from universities to hospitals to professional bodies.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain networks with key universities, professional bodies, and hospitals to establish strategic partnerships that align with Karya’s mission of unlocking digital work opportunities for millions of Indians
- Map and systematically engage with external stakeholders, like university administrations and student bodies to effectively present Karya’s initiatives and onboard students as data specialists for Karya
- Engage with relevant departments and stakeholders to secure large-scale buy-in for Karya’s impactful initiatives
- Collaborate with internal teams to align customer success needs with workforce building
- Support cross-functional teams in executing client related projects at scale
Travel: Willingness to travel 10-20% of the time (as and when required)
Qualifications
- ~5 years experience in strategic partnerships or equivalent experience
- Project management expertise with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and large-scale initiatives.
- Exceptional relationship-building and collaboration skills
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Core competencies:
- Prior experience working with university administrations and influencing senior stakeholders
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Ability to build compelling narratives and utilize storytelling as a stakeholder engagement strategy
- Ability to leverage business acumen to strategically assess and help solve needs of stakeholders, to eventually establish partnerships
- Comfortable with ambiguity, with the passion and hustle to build something impactful
Nice-to-Have Competencies:
- Previous experience working in the gig economy or with social enterprises
People matter at Karya and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
- Flexible vacation and leave policy
- Flexible work options
- Insurance as per industry standards
- Access to industry stalwarts and networking opportunities
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.
Karya invites all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search to apply for a career opportunity, reach out at hr@karya.in
