Job Opportunity for Product Associate- New Initiatives at The Nudge Institute in Bengaluru

About our organization

The/Nudge is an action institute working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime. We partner with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. We are a collective of some of India’s best leaders and entrepreneurs from across the industry, academia, government, and development sectors and our work is organized across three impact streams:

• Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE): exists to enable urban households to live a dignified life out of poverty
• Centre for Rural Development (CRD): exists to enable families to come out of extreme poverty
• Centre for Social Innovation (CSI): exists to build a thriving livelihoods ecosystem

About the role

This role is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a new intrapreneurial venture focused on helping urban street vendors grow their business and live a dignified life out of poverty. Come build for millions of Indians while working with leaders and entrepreneurs working towards a poverty-free India.

In this role, you will:

• Be part of a small team that will go on a 0 to 1 journey together
• Build and prioritize hypotheses and design small-scale experiments to test and refine these hypotheses
• Execute experiments working with users on field
• Measure success of these experiments through designing metrics, data collection, and analysis
• Own the secondary research beyond experiments to answer key product strategy and design questions
• Engage with potential partner organizations for research and solution design (non-profit/for-profit/government)
• Contribute to team brainstorming sessions for product decision-making and roadmap by providing quantitative/qualitative data analysis and insights
• Be the early team member who goes beyond job descriptions

Apply if you have:

• 2-4 years of work experience in high-performing roles in product management, management consulting, investment banking, B2C field sales, tech startups
• ability to work in a fast-paced, startup environment (bias for action, get things done, willingness to work hard, learn new things fast, figure things out on your own)
• passion and hunger for solving big social problems at scale using technology
• energy, excitement and empathy for working directly with users on field
• ability to connect with people from diverse backgrounds including from underprivileged background
• strong analytical and research skills, attention to detail and love for problem solving
• strong verbal and written communication skills
• comfort with high level of ambiguity and fluid role and responsibilities
• commitment to do what it takes to build something ground up

We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply