Chief Manager – Technology

“Learning is like rowing upstream…..Not to advance is to drop back” – Chinese Proverb

EdIndia Foundation (EF) is a not for profit focused on leveraging technology and data analytics to

create innovative solutions to impact education at scale. Edindia believes that technology has a huge

potential to impact government schools at scale. Acknowledging the fact that there are existing

barriers to integrate technology within the government system, EdIndia was set up with a mission to

“create tech based solutions to impact the quality of education at scale”. It is supported by Sterlite

Power Group Companies.

EdIndia is “Mobile First” in most of its products and solutions. They include a “data analytics”

solution for officials and management in public education system. It leverages secondary data in

education system and renders it on a chrome app through easy-to-read visualizations and

establishes a DSS (decision support system). Similarly, another mobile solution comprises of android

app that works as a go-to platform for teachers to satiate their conceptual curiosity and gain

pedagogical insights served through bite-sized videos and digital resources.

EdIndia considers itself as a “start-up” at heart and intends to bring on-board a team, passionate

about “education for all” anchored on innovation and data analytics.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing Product Strategy and Roadmap for stakeholders), social impact, performance, and

future versions and user interface improvements. post-launch support.

• Design and develop products and solutions,  Let users and data lead the way and oversee

anchor its lifecycle from prototype/POC to generating critical insights using analytics. The

sustainable growth and their adoption across role requires a focus on listening to students and

affordable school education systems. teachers and provide technical leadership in

• Perform a Build vs Buy Analysis based on product creating innovative products and solutions

development requirements. Initiate and manage addressing needs of the public education system.

technology-partner relations, as well as, build and  Developing metrics, MIS & visualisation aligned to

manage a software team to deliver solutions. company & program performance to track

• The role sets the vision for user experience. The success indicators & identify improvement areas.

role takes a lead to transform ideas into  Prepare presentations and communicate findings

future-growth initiatives. from initiatives to Leadership and External

• Managing prioritisation & trade-offs between user stakeholders.

experience (Teachers and other

You could be a good match if you are:

• You possess in-depth and stack – agnostic using microservices & having interest on open

knowledge of web analytics, android app source technologies, social chat platforms and

development, PHP frameworks, UX design tools bots.

such as Figma etc.,  Edindia works a lot with rendering various forms

• Min 4-5 years post tier-1 MBA work experience of of content (text, audio, video, image, streaming

a Technical Product Manager role, preferably etc). Thus experience in content delivery tools to

from an internet start-up (experience in failed end-users will be preferred.

start-ups will be welcomed as we feel failure is a  You will work in a rapidly changing eco-system

great learning experience!!) and demonstrate problem-solving leadership.

• Experience managing vendor relations,  Be an exceptional communicator and an

understanding production cloud infrastructures agile/creative problem solver. Build relationships

and collaborate across functions; get complex that one strives to add value to each team

things done and drive impact. member and help everyone learn and succeed.

• A self-starter and learning enthusiast: It’s a start This is essential condition to affect the mission

up project and we want to work with people who positively.

enjoy building things from the bottom up. The  Passionate about open source movement and

products and solutions we are carving out are sharing: We embrace the open source movement

cutting edge and would expose the member to and all the content we create is free and open

extensive mentoring on combining technology source for anyone out there. We also believe in

with social impact. Most of the work we do has not sharing our process and what we are learning

been tried before and initiative and a learning bent periodically to create a community of practice. An

of mind will thrive in the project environment. alignment to the same is something we are

• A Team player: We are attempting to build a lean looking for in all our team members

and flat organization. We are looking to get

together with people who are more driven by

passion than position or perks. Hence it is critical

Location: Mumbai

Salary: Commensurate to skill-sets and experience and aligned to the best on non-profit sector.

If this excites you please apply by clicking here https://forms.office.com/r/iwH5GqvFLS

EdIndia Foundation (www.edindia.org) is a section 8 not for profit company focussed on leveraging

technology and data analytics to create innovative solutions to impact education at scale. EIF has been

provided incubation support by Sterlite Power and its group companies.

About Sterlite Power (www.sterlitepower.com): Operating out of India and Brazil, Sterlite Power is a leading

integrated power transmission developer and solutions provider globally. It is focused on addressing complex

challenges in the sector by tackling the key constraints of time, space and capital.