Job Opportunity for Solutions Manager at Wadhwani AI in Delhi

SUMMARY

Solution Managers are accountable for the functional solution delivery and perform duties such as requirement elicitation, reporting to management, assigning tasks, managing team members, and networking with clients. Along with this also act as the system analyst/product owner for the projects.

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 & child health, Covid-19 and cotton farming.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversees the planning and execution of Solutions
• Decides on priorities in projects, and works with personnel from cross-functional teams to allocate resources
• Identifies critical dependencies with external stakeholders and research/programs/products and ensures follow-through
• Champion in the usage of Asana for managing timelines and to-dos
• Acts as the scrum master across all projects
• Works well with cross-functional teams to drive agenda items related to the delivery of software
• Supports the product/solution lead in areas of scheduling and prioritization
• Translate functional business requirements into the functional product solution.
• This includes the data mapping specifications, interface specifications, process logic specifications, and appropriate tools to best represent processing.
• Ensure that the intent of the system is met when the system is created by working closely with the user community to foster rapid and meaningful adoption.
• Perform user acceptance testing to validate that the developed solution meets the requirements.

REQUIREMENTS

• Has 8-15 years of total experience
• Ability to work in resource-constrained and ambiguous environments to define priorities
• Is disciplined in execution and can implement good practices in software development
• Clear and concise visual and written documentation skills to effectively communicate system enhancements to the development team.
• Basic knowledge of web technologies, conceptual database modeling, processing metaphors, and usage of systems among different communities.
• Results-driven self-starter who takes ownership of problems/tasks and sees them through to completion/resolution.
• Candidates should have a Bachelors/Master’s in Engineering Discipline or equivalent industry experience.