Job Opportunity for Tech Product Owner at The Nudge Institute in Bengaluru

About The/Nudge:

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 underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives
• Centre for Rural Development (CRD): exists to enable families to come out of extreme poverty
• Centre for Social Innovation (CSI): exists to nudge top talent to solve India’s biggest challenges

What are we solving for in the End Ultra Poverty program?

End Ultra Poverty (EUP) program is solving for households in ultra-poverty through a targeted, multi-faceted and sequenced model called the Graduation Approach which has demonstrated that ultra-poverty can be conquered. 

At The/Nudge we have been piloting this program for the past 3 years and are in the process of catalyzing propagation of the same. Our purpose is to contribute to ending ultra-poverty in India. EUP will:

• continue to implement on its own to iterate the design for impact at scale
• enable more NGOs to adopt technical and capacity-building support
• enable govt to adopt by providing research, design, and implementation support
• continue to generate data on ultra-poverty and evidence on graduation approach to nudge governments to adopt at scale
• build technology solutions for NGOs and governments to adopt and implement at scale & with quality.

About the role

As part of our partnership with the government on the EUP program, The/Nudge Institute has been given the mandate to design and build out a tech product to enable the implementation of the Graduation Approach; in conjunction with the National & State Rural Livelihood Missions (NRLM/ SRLMs). You will play a pivotal role in building this first-of-its-kind tech product intended for use in Graduation Approach programs across the country.

In this role, you will:

• manage a vendor software development team to deliver timely (monthly & quarterly) releases of the tech product [working out of the vendor’s office in Noida]
• plan & manage development and quality delivery of tech product functionality in 2-week sprint cycles
• contribute to the conceptual design of the tech product and translate feature design into user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• define and validate end-to-end test scenarios to clearly measure quality of the end-of-sprint release of the tech product
• ensure adherence to software development and devops best practices including unit tests, code reviews and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD); in conjunction with the tech lead and product team
• work with product and state teams on testing efforts, rollout and support 

Apply if you:

• have a strong motivation to contribute to poverty alleviation efforts in India
• are willing to make periodic field visits to understand the program and the users for whom the tech product is being built
• work with a high level of rigor – especially in ensuring the quality of delivered software & in ensuring the team follows development best practices such as unit tests, code reviews, etc.
• Have total of 6-8 years of experience with 2-4 years of work experience in project management of development of medium to large-scale software applications and 2-4 years of experience as a business analyst building mobile/web applications
• have the ability to plan development by breaking down functionality into tasks and estimating time/ effort for the same
• have the ability to work with developers to deliver output in short development cycles
• have the ability to work in a fast paced, ambiguous startup environment (bias for action and curiosity to learn)
• have experience working with software development vendors to deliver applications of high quality (Preferred)

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