About The/Nudge:
The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals and youth on rural development, agriculture, skilling and economic inclusion, along with 15+ central and state government partners.
Our economic inclusion journey for 25 million Indians, has reached 10 states with $250M of government funding to cover 1.25M people. Our incubator, accelerator and grand challenges have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs including 17 Forbes 30U30, 3 EarthShot Prize winners, 1 Time Magazine cover and more.
Set up with support from 100+ eminent philanthropists , 40+ corporates and 15+ foundations including Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Vinod Khosla, Nandan, Tata Trusts, Skoll, Meta, LinkedIn, HDFC, Mphasis, KPMG and L'Oreal, we are contributing towards a "poverty-free India, within our lifetime".
About The Team:
The/Nudge Prize is a platform to draw talent, capital, and public attention towards the most pressing developmental problems in India. The/Nudge Prize is part of the livelihood ecosystem workstream.
The/Nudge Prize aims to guide markets where they are needed the most. By inducing population scale solutions & innovations that have disproportionate impact on stagnant livelihood opportunities & ecosystems for underserved segments. We research, design & conduct ‘tech based scale-up competitions’, to discover/innovate disruptive solutions and pull in capital to solve the most complex problems in India, faster.
This role is to lead the Product & Design function within Prize - to enable a long term strategy and design for current & future challenges, while enabling an internal research POV, developing strong research partnerships, developing long term technical & investing partnerships for the 3 themes at Prize and finally work closely with the challenge leads and Program Head to develop sharper interventions across challenges.
At The/Nudge you will:
- Be an early team member - spend time across the functions of the program and identify a needs charter, be a thought partner to the Program Head
- Lead primary and secondary research on areas relevant to running Prize challenges and defining sharp problem statements
- Research & finalize the theory of change and product design - understand and articulate market making through inducement challenges (Develop our roadmap to change - from zero to one)
- Identify thematic areas across the development landscape for prize challenges and refine boundary conditions for our play
- Identify and harness global and domestic partnerships to aid Prize challenges and momentum for our areas
- Identify areas of collaboration and media engagement avenues to aid amplification & network effects
- Design interventions and refine as per execution - to be implemented across various challenges
- Create a data structure for Prize and identify a sustainable way to share this data, information, platform & insights across various stakeholders
- Onboard relevant partners for specific prize challenges and maintain relationships with them through continuous engagements
- Conduct primary and secondary research on areas relevant to running Prize challenges and defining sharp problem statements
- Set up seamless processes (design, evaluation criteria, jury, etc) for smooth execution of challenges from the announcement of the prize to its completion
- Interface with Program Team, CSI stakeholders & Marketing, Analytics, Technology and Impact teams on areas critical to the success of the designed prize challenges
Core Abilities & Transferable Skills:
- Ability to conceptualize and put in frameworks
- Ability to translate ambiguities into actions
- Can manage flux and change
- Research driven
- Ability to think first principles and understand 2nd and 3rd degree change / impact
- Bias for action and brings in humility
- Understands global and various formats of the Inducement challenges and designs for large scale impact
- Understands & interested in developmental economics & behavior change
- Ability to bring a tech first lens to program design
Apply if you have:
- Graduate, post-graduate degrees
- Economics training or has gone through some educational/vocational experience in behavioral economics or macro-economics based dynamics
- 7-9 years of work experience in high performing set-ups and in intrapreneurial roles
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to work in a fast-paced, startup environment
- A strong desire to make a difference
- Comfort with some degree of ambiguity in the absence of perfect information
- Comfort working with external and internal stakeholder groups
Would be great if you have:
- Work experience in a tech startup
- A consultancy background
- Has designed programs in the social or impact sector
We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.