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# Partnerships Associate at Karya

- **Company:** Karya
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karya/jobs/5460823008

## 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.

We are looking for a Partnerships Associate to build and manage institutional partnerships that expand Karya’s work across key domains: agriculture, health, education, and legal access. You will manage partnerships end to end, from identifying leads to onboarding, project updates, and closure. You will also bring in domain experts who regularly guide Karya’s work, and help extend our footprint across the country’s remote locations and languages. The role suits someone with a strong social sector background, a deep understanding of marginalised communities, and the ability to work across technology, operations, and ground teams.

## What You Will Do

Partnership Development & Management

- Identify and research institutional partners across agriculture, health, education, and legal domains.
- Onboard domain experts across the above sectors who can provide regular inputs on Karya’s work.
- Manage partnerships end to end: lead generation, outreach, onboarding, ongoing project updates, and closure.
- Maintain strong, long-term relationships with institutional partners and ensure their expectations and Karya’s deliverables stay aligned.
- Track partnership pipelines, progress, and outcomes, and report them to the leadership team.

Training & Orientation

- Provide training and orientation to institutional partners and domain experts on Karya’s vision, project mission, and deliverables.
- Develop clear onboarding materials and communication resources for partners.

Cross-Team Coordination

- Act as the link between Karya’s internal teams (technology and operations) and the ground team.
- Handle on-ground tech trouble shooting.
- Relay partner needs and ground realities to internal teams, and communicate project updates back to partners.
- Work with internal teams to ensure partnership commitments are met on time.

Required Qualifications

- 3-4 years of experience in the social sector, working across domains such as agriculture, legal access, healthcare, and education.
- Previous experience in partnership building and onboarding relevant partners.
- Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, business management, or a related field.
- Experience working with marginalised communities, with an understanding of their realities and needs.
- Experience working in tech for social good.
- Proven ability of working in a cross-functional role.

You Are

- A strong communicator and relationship builder, comfortable engaging institutions, experts, and community-level teams alike.
- Empathetic and culturally sensitive in working with diverse and marginalised communities.
- Organised and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple partnerships at different stages.
- Proactive and self-driven, with a problem-solving mindset.
- Adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-evolving, mission-driven environment.

## 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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