Job Opportunity for Director – Information & Application Systems at Social Alpha in Bengaluru

Job Title: Director – Information & Application Systems

Location: Bangalore/New Delhi

Job Type: Full time

About Social Alpha:

Social Alpha is a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform for science and technology start-ups that aim to address the most critical social, economic, and environmental challenges. Social Alpha architecture includes product innovation labs, venture incubators, grand challenges, accelerator programmes, capital pools and market access mechanisms. It also provides early-stage equity capital as well as non-dilutive grants for pilots, validations, market access and scale-up programmes. Since its inception in 2016, Social Alpha has supported more than 200 start-ups including 60+ seed investments.

Job Description

Social Alpha is looking to bring onboard a professional to build and implement its information and application systems. The role will entail working closely with business and creating systems to be used internally to improve collaboration, efficiency and traceability. The person will be responsible for looking at current systems / tools / software / information security and ensuring fit and usage. He/She shall also be responsible for driving adoption of tools / systems across various business functions. The person is expected to take complete ownership for strategically introducing new systems and tuning existing systems to meet the growing needs of businesses and functions. He/She will act as the custodian of all hardware and software assets of Social Alpha and shall drive interactions with vendors, contractors, service providers etc.

Social Alpha is an agile organization with offices across the globe. A good fit for this role will be someone with a cloud-first / application system approach. The role will also provide ample freedom to explore new areas of technology and information systems and will place the onus on the individual to strategically drive the Information and Application System strategy for Social Alpha. The role will report into the CEO’s office.

How to Apply for this job using Easy Apply

Upload your resume with a pager note about the case study below or send your resume with a short note to careers@socialalpha.org

Social Alpha is a 100+ member team spread across multiple functions and locations. In your view, please share a note highlighting your ideal deployment architecture that would cover coexistence of CRM, ERP, Collaboration, Document Management, Project / Program Management systems etc needed for successfully scaling up and improving collaboration, productivity and efficiency across the organization. The note should be a comprehensive outlook of what a potential Information & Application System strategy could look for a fast-growing organization with special emphasis on cloud/SaaS solutions architecture.

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Social Alpha is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qualified individuals without prejudice and discrimination.