Senior Associate, Prize ( AI Build) , Livelihood Ecosystem

About the Team:the^delta Prize is a platform to draw talent, capital, and public attention towards the most pressing developmental problems in India. the^delta Prize aims to guide markets where they are needed the most, inducing population-scale solutions and innovations that have disproportionate impact on stagnant livelihood opportunities and ecosystems for underserved segments.
This role sits within Future Enterprises, the^delta Prize's vertical dedicated to India's MSME sector, and supports the AI platform within Samriddhi (AI for MSME prosperity). The platform connects youth and jobseekers in tier 3–4 cities to career pathways, skilling, apprenticeships and jobs, while helping MSMEs access job-ready talent. The role reports to the Senior Manager, Platform, and works alongside the Director / Associate Director, AI & Digital Platforms and the Challenges and Convening & Ecosystem teams.
The platform is in its build phase, so priorities and processes will keep moving as the work progresses.
Who are we solving for?Youth and jobseekers in tier 3–4 cities, whose access to career guidance, skilling and jobs is limited by language, geography and the thin guidance available to them, and MSMEs that find it difficult to reach job-ready talent.
What are we solving for?India's youth-to-work transition is fragmented: skilling remains supply-led while MSME demand for talent goes largely unmet, career guidance for tier 3–4 youth is thin and rarely available in their own language, and the landscape of job and skilling platforms is fragmented across incompatible systems. The platform is designed to address these together, on top of existing government and ecosystem infrastructure.
Role and Responsibility:What will you do?• Take ownership of the day-to-day coordination that keeps platform work moving, tracking tasks, deadlines and follow-ups across product, engineering and partner teams
• Support product delivery: maintain the backlog, prepare requirement documents and release notes as directed by the Senior Manager, and track open issues through to closure
• Support partner onboarding and contracting: coordinate agreements, paperwork and logistics for technology, skilling and employer partners
• Support the landscape scan: gather and structure information on existing job and skilling platforms using the team's framework, and keep the database current
• Coordinate user research: schedule and manage logistics for conversations and pilot sessions with youth and MSME employers in tier 3–4 cities, document the notes and consolidate findings
• Test platform features and AI responses in Hindi and English, and other languages where relevant, log issues in a structured way and follow up with the build team
• Maintain documentation, including meeting notes, process documents, partner trackers and decision logs
• Track platform usage and outcome data, and prepare inputs for regular reports
• Coordinate with the Challenges and Convening & Ecosystem teams, and with marketing, analytics and donor relations, to get assigned tasks done on time
• Support logistics for workshops, partner convenings and field visits, including travel to pilot locations
• Move quickly across many parts at once, close to the work as it happens
(The actual role might evolve slightly based on your relevant experience and the overlap between organisational requirements and your interests.)
Who are we looking for in this role?Core abilities & transferable skills• Strong execution skills: reliable, organised, and able to get things done without needing every step spelled out
• Comfort taking direction and working within processes and frameworks that already exist
• A major learner mindset: the work spans AI, workforce and MSME topics that will be new to many candidates, and the ability to pick things up quickly matters more than prior expertise
• High comfort with ambiguity and change
• Daily, hands-on use of AI tools
• Clear written communication and strong documentation habits
• Professional, responsive and dependable stakeholder coordination
• Bias for action, paired with humility
Apply if you have:• Graduate or postgraduate degree
• 3–5 years of work experience in high-performing set-ups, for example product operations, program coordination or start-ups
• Strong organisational and coordination skills, with attention to detail
• Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, Word and PowerPoint, and comfort with project tracking tools
• Regular, hands-on use of AI tools such as LLM assistants
• Written and spoken fluency in English and Hindi; other languages are a bonus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to travel as required for field research and pilots
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment
• Comfort with a significant degree of ambiguity in the absence of perfect information
• Comfort with nonprofit sector salaries
Would be great if you:• Have worked in product operations or quality testing of digital products
• Have experience in skilling, jobs or livelihoods
• Have basic SQL or spreadsheet analytics skills
• Are interested in developmental economics and India's youth employment and MSME landscape
• Have supported programs in the social or impact sector before

We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organisation 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.

Department: Prize
Experience: 3-5 years
Posted: 2026-11-12T07:07:34.63Z