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# Entrepreneur in Residence - Karya X at Karya

- **Company:** Karya
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-04-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karya/jobs/5193321008

## Job description

About Us:

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.

We’ve already proven that high-quality AI data can be a vehicle for economic opportunity. Now, we are looking for a visionary builder to help us answer our next big moonshot: What are the next frontiers of dignified digital work that underserved communities can perform via a mobile phone, for which the global market is ready to pay fair and ethical wages?

We aren't looking for a manager; we are looking for a founder-at-heart. As an Entrepreneur in Residence, you will be given the resources, the infrastructure, and the mission-critical "problem statements" to experiment, fail fast, and eventually scale a new business vertical from scratch.

This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role designed for someone who thrives in the "chaos" of early-stage discovery.

The ideal candidate would have previously founded a startup or were a member of the core founding team (first 5 employees) of a 0-to-1 venture. You know exactly what it takes to build something out of nothing.

If you're excited about closing complex deals that directly fund dignified work for underserved communities, and want to shape GTM strategy at a mission-driven company, we'd love to hear from you.

## Key Responsibilities

- Moonshot Experimentation: Taking raw hypotheses about digital labor—ranging from micro-services to creative digital tasks—and turning them into functional pilots
- Market Validation: Identifying local and global market demands that align with the unique capabilities of rural and underserved communities
- Product-Market Fit (PMF): Rapidly iterating on mobile-first solutions to ensure the work is not just "available" but truly dignified and economically transformative
- Building the Blueprint: Developing the operational and technical playbooks required to turn a successful experiment into a standalone Karya business unit
- Revenue Pipeline Development: Moving beyond theory to build a tangible commercial engine. You will identify early adopters, secure design partners, and sign the first revenue-generating contracts for your new business lines
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Influence founders and stakeholders across leadership teams to collaboratively experiment new ideas

## Who you are

You are a rare hybrid of a strategic thinker and a relentless executioner. You don't wait for a roadmap; you draw it.

Required Qualifications:

- Foundational Grit: You have previously founded a startup or were a member of the core founding team (first 5 employees) of a 0-to-1 venture. You know exactly what it takes to build something out of nothing.

- Experience: You bring at least 5+ years of total professional experience, with a significant portion spent in high-growth, high-stakes environments.

- The "Builder" Mindset: You are comfortable getting your hands dirty with product design, user research in the field, and selling to the first ten customers.

- Mission Alignment: You are obsessed with the intersection of technology and social equity. You believe that "underserved" does not mean "unskilled."

What we offer:

- Meaningful work at the intersection of AI, Tech and Equity

- Flexible leave and vacation policy

- Insurance as per industry standards

- Access to leaders in technology and social impact

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.

If you need accommodations to apply, please contact us at hr@karya.in

## 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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