Website Wadhwani AI
As a Program Manager in our Ideation and Incubation Unit, you will be the resident expert providing knowledge and helping set the broad direction for our innovation efforts in the education and skilling domains.
You will identify organizations (government agencies, nonprofits, or corporates) to partner with, problem areas to focus on, and data sources relevant to those problems. Working closely with ML scientists, engineers, and product managers, you will help narrow down problem areas to specific use-cases that we will build solutions for.
Owning external partner and customer relations, you will plan and execute our incubation efforts and field experiments, which are central to our iterative approach to innovation. With the ultimate goal of ‘impact at scale,’ you will help the ideation and incubation unit transition the most promising opportunities to the solution development team for pilots and scaled deployments.
ABOUT US
The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) is an independent nonprofit institute developing AI-based solutions for underserved communities in developing countries.
We work with over 40 partners including key government agencies, international development organizations, NGOs, and research organizations to identify real-world challenges, create and deploy innovative AI solutions to reach intended users and beneficiaries – with the objective of creating sustainable, scalable impact.
Our projects are supported by leading philanthropies such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and Google.org. Our accolades include winning the Google AI Impact Challenge (one among 20 out of 2600 competitors globally) as well as multiple awards at the 2021 Fast Company World Changing Ideas.
Our current portfolio of initiatives spans tuberculosis, maternal, newborn, and child health, Covid-19, and cotton farming.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identify organizations (government agencies, nonprofits, or corporates) to partner with, problem areas to focus on, and data sources relevant to those problems
- Work closely with ML scientists, engineers, and product managers to help narrow down problem areas to specific AI use-cases
- Own and manage external partnerships. Seek and synthesize stakeholder inputs to help define incubation roadmap and solution requirements
- Design, set up, and execute efforts such as data collection and curation, field experiments, and pilots
- Pull together landscape analysis studies, concept notes, presentations, and analytical models as needed
IDEAL BACKGROUND:
- 6-8 years experience designing and implementing national or state level programs in education and/or skilling & livelihoods, working with government and/or top-tier nonprofits
- Experience managing all aspects of program implementation, including hiring
- Experience writing proposals for top-tier international funding organizations
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, solution-oriented thinking
- Technology enthusiast, with an innovator mindset. Prior experience in building or deploying AI-based products is a strong plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Effective interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Willing to travel and excited to get on the ground in rural settings
- Multiple Indian languages is a plus
To apply for this job please visit www.wadhwaniai.org.