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# Strategy & Operations Analyst at Karya

- **Company:** Karya
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karya/jobs/5415057008

## Job description

Strategy & Operations Analyst — Karya

We are looking for a Strategy & Operations  Analyst to work closely with the leadership team across product, operations, and project management. This is not a conventional reporting or MIS role—you will tackle ambiguous questions, turn data and research into insights, and help drive better decisions.

## The Role

As a Strategy & Operations Analyst, you will bring analytical rigor, curiosity, and structure to a wide range of problems. Your work will include:

- Analyze operational performance and product data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement
- Support process, and strategic initiatives through research, user/team insights, quantitative analysis, scenario modelling, and structured problem-solving.
- Own the measurement layer for product initiatives, identify the right data sources and pull the metrics needed to validate problem statements and track KPIs defined in product and business requirement documents.
- Build dashboards, reports, trackers, and decision-support tools to improve visibility, monitor performance, and enable data-driven decision-making.
- Turn ambiguous questions into structured problems, actionable recommendations, and clear decision documents.
- Contribute to cross-functional projects by contributing from problem definition → analysis → recommendation → execution.

The role will evolve with Karya's needs. You should be comfortable moving between different problems and taking ownership from question to execution.

## What We're Looking For

We value intellectual horsepower, curiosity, ownership, and judgment more than a specific degree or career path.

You may be a strong fit if you have:

- 3-5 years of experience in analytics, consulting, research, operations, technology, or a similar analytical role.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent Excel/Google Sheets skills; SQL is a must-have.
- Pandas-python or any experience in dealing with tabular data (csv, tsv files) is a plus.
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems and break them into manageable pieces.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- High ownership, attention to detail, curiosity, and comfort working independently.
- Genuine interest in Karya's mission and creating real-world impact.

We welcome candidates from unconventional backgrounds. You don't need to have followed a conventional analyst career path.

What Would Make You Exceptional

You will stand out if you:

- Move comfortably between spreadsheets, research, team conversations, and strategy.
- Simplify complex ideas and communicate insights clearly.
- Spot patterns and opportunities others may miss.
- Have a strong bias toward action rather than endless analysis.
- Ask thoughtful questions and know how to find answers when you don't know something.
- Care deeply about whether analysis leads to better decisions.
- Enjoy building systems, solving unfamiliar problems, and getting hands-on with execution.

## What You Can Expect

- Close exposure to leadership and organizational decision-making.
- A broad role spanning strategy, research, and operations.
- Significant ownership from problem definition through execution.
- Exposure to multiple teams and how Karya operates.
- The opportunity to directly influence processes, systems, and organizational priorities.
- High autonomy, responsibility, and a steep learning curve.
- The opportunity to become a generalist problem-solver while contributing to a mission-driven organization

## 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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