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# Analytics Lead - Data, Measurement & Impact at Karya

- **Company:** Karya
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-05-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karya/jobs/5215538008

## Job description

Karya’s mission is to leverage the AI revolution to create dignified earning and learning opportunities for low-income communities across the world. In India, our smartphone-based digital work platform has enabled over 120,000 people to build language datasets and evaluate AI models while earning fair wages. With pilots in Kenya and Ethiopia and partnerships with leading AI labs, we are advancing language technologies for underrepresented communities. By combining dignified digital work with frontier AI innovation, Karya hopes to build a new AI economy that is equitable, inclusive, and community driven.

This role delivers the end-to-end analytics and measurement function at Karya within the MERL team. The Lead will act as the critical bridge between backend data systems, measurement and research frameworks, and organisational decision-making. This is a builder role under ambiguity.

Core Responsibilities

1. Deliver analytics strategy and roadmap

- Work with R&I (Research & Impact) leadership to iteratively define what Karya should measure across earnings, engagement, productivity, and impact. The two critical areas for automated pipelines will be
- Worker Impact and Well Being
- Engagement and Quality by Type of Tasks, Projects and Metrics to Strengthen Re-engagement
- Build an analytics roadmap aligned with organisational priorities, as per existing reporting mandates
- Shift from ad-hoc analysis to systematic decision-making

1. Build and own analytics systems

- Design automated monitoring pipelines (SQL, Metabase, backend integration)
- Develop reusable data models
- Ensure outputs are scalable and decision-oriented

1. Bridge SQL and social research thinking

- Translate research questions into SQL logic and measurable indicators
- Work on worker measurement, noisy data, and integration of disparate data sources.
- Ensure outputs are technically robust and methodologically sound

1. Operate under ambiguity

- Convert vague questions into structured hypotheses and analyses
- Proactively identify key questions for the organisation

1. Strengthen data architecture

- Collaborate with Tech on schema design and data quality
- Reduce manual data cleaning

1. Lead cross-functional analytics

- Partner with Ops and Research teams
- Communicate insights to non-technical stakeholders

1. Build and manage analytics function

- Mentor analysts
- Set standards for SQL, QA, and documentation
- Create scalable analytics systems

## Who You Are

Must-have

- 3–6 years experience in analytics/data/applied research
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience with messy, real-world datasets
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems

Strong differentiators

- Experience in organisations at the intersection of tech and social good
- Exposure to impact measurement and surveys
- Experience building analytics systems

Mindset

- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Curious about data systems and human outcomes
- Balances rigour with pragmatism

## What We Offer

- Flexible leave and vacation policy

- Remote / hybrid work options

- Insurance as per industry standards

- Access to leaders in technology and social impact

- Meaningful work at the intersection of AI, design, and equity

Karya celebrates diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected status.

## About Karya

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Data Services, Language Technology, Ethical Data Collection, Impact Tech
- **Target customers**: B2B – AI labs (e.g., Google DeepMind, Microsoft), enterprises building multilingual AI systems, government and public-sector AI initiatives
- **Mission**: “Create dignified digital work that improves livelihoods while shaping AI systems that reflect the people who build them.” [karya.in](https://www.karya.in/about/mission/)

## Products & Services
- **Conversational Speech Datasets**: Large-scale datasets across 22 official Indian languages for speech recognition and conversational AI. [karya.in](https://www.karya.in/)
- **Evaluation Benchmarks (Samiksha)**: National-scale evaluation frameworks covering 6 Indian languages, 17 models, and 4 key domains (healthcare, agriculture, finance, law, education, public services). [karya.in](https://www.karya.in/)
- **Data Collection & Annotation Services**: Domain-specific transcription, localized translation, and multimodal dataset creation (including egocentric datasets for physical/embodied AI). [karya.in](https://www.karya.in/)
- **Karya Platform (PaaS)**: A digital work platform that distributes AI-data microtasks to rural workers, enabling human-in-the-loop evaluation and bias mitigation. [karya.in](https://www.karya.in/) and [linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/karya-inc)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Total Funding**: USD $1,000,000 (grant from Google.org, led by Google.org, November 2024) [linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/karya-inc)
- **Key Metric**: Over 130,000 workers have completed 65+ million paid digital tasks; 99 employees (45.8% YoY growth) [linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/karya-inc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Google.org (grant), Google DeepMind, Microsoft, partnerships with leading AI labs; expanded to Kenya and Ethiopia [karya.in](https://www.karya.in/about/mission/)
- **Growth Signals**: Launched Karya Institute (2025) to explore the future of work in AI; published research at CHI 2019 and LREC 2020; spun out of Microsoft Research; presented to Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai [karya.in](https://www.karya.in/about/mission/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ethical & Inclusive Data Sourcing**: Karya’s platform directly benefits low-income rural workers by paying fair wages, differentiating itself from exploitative data labeling models.
- **Deep Focus on Underrepresented Languages**: Specializes in 22 Indian languages and underserved communities globally, creating datasets that major AI companies cannot easily replicate.
- **End-to-End Pipeline**: Offers data collection, annotation, evaluation, and deployment – a vertically integrated stack for multilingual AI.
- **Research-Backed Origin**: Born from Microsoft Research, giving it credibility and technical depth in crowdsourced work and language technology.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic Expansion**: Pilots in Kenya and Ethiopia to replicate the model for African languages and communities.
- **“Earn & Learn” Strategy**: Developing pathways for workers to gain skills and move out of poverty, combining earning with upskilling.
- **Karya Institute**: Research arm exploring the future of digital work and AI’s impact on low-income communities.
- **Product Diversification**: Moving beyond data collection into evaluation benchmarks and platform-as-a-service for enterprise clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Join a team committed to using AI for social impact – creating dignified work and inclusive AI systems.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly scaling (45% headcount growth YoY) with opportunities to shape operations, technology, and impact in India and Africa.
- **Work Policy**: Mix of office (Bangalore) and remote roles (e.g., Visual & Motion Designer Remote, Health Program Lead Remote) as seen on the careers page. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karya)
- **Engineering & Research Focus**: Strong technical team (29% in technical roles) with backgrounds from Microsoft, Wadhwani AI, and top Indian institutes. Work on cutting-edge NLP, speech, and multimodal AI.
- **Notable Perks**: The chance to work directly with global AI labs (Google DeepMind, Microsoft) and present to top tech leaders. Limited employer reviews (2.0/5.0 from 1 review on LinkedIn) – candidate should research culture further.

## Sources
1. [karya.in – Homepage](https://www.karya.in/)
2. [karya.in – About/Mission](https://www.karya.in/about/mission/)
3. [LinkedIn – Karya Company Page](https://in.linkedin.com/company/karya-inc)
4. [Greenhouse – Karya Careers Page](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karya)

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