Jobs at Athena Infonomics

Design intern creating social media creatives, campaign assets, presentations, infographics, videos, and visual storytelling content. The role involves maintaining brand consistency, collaborating with marketing, experimenting with AI-powered design and video tools, and developing original visual concepts. Candidates should have foundational design and video editing skills, a relevant academic background, a creative portfolio, strong visual judgment, and the ability to manage multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment.

Supports content creation, digital and performance marketing, market research, events, partnerships, analytics, and AI experimentation. Responsibilities include researching AI and public-sector topics, producing social and web content, assisting with paid campaigns and SEO, tracking marketing metrics, maintaining dashboards, supporting events, and testing AI-powered workflows. The intern will verify research accuracy, identify brand-building opportunities, and contribute to campaign optimisation in a fast-paced environment.

Lead a multidisciplinary design research team conducting field research, ethnography, contextual inquiry, and synthesis across complex development environments. Translate evidence into use cases, product opportunities, experience principles, and product concepts while partnering with product, design, engineering, AI, government, and development stakeholders. The role combines hands-on fieldwork, research leadership, practice development, stakeholder influence, and strategic product visioning, with regular travel across diverse rural, agricultural, industrial, and public-service contexts.

Owns Athena’s organization-wide data governance, privacy, protection, and responsible AI framework across multiple countries. The role develops policies, consent and risk tools, data inventories, compliance processes, incident response, AI approvals, and ISO 27001/SOC 2 readiness. It also trains staff and partners, supports live projects, manages audits, advises clients and regulators, and reports governance progress to leadership.

Supports development consulting projects through research design, survey development, data collection, cleaning, analysis, reporting, proposal writing, and project execution. Coordinates analysts, manages budgets and timelines, facilitates cross-team collaboration, supports business development, and engages stakeholders including governments, donors, NGOs, subcontractors, and clients. The role requires extensive travel to project and client sites.

Own a workstream on a national rural digital platform, from defining use cases and functional specifications through engineering delivery, field testing, rollout, training, and adoption tracking. Collaborate with government counterparts, self-help groups, community workers, and block staff to gather requirements and resolve issues. Prepare acceptance criteria, test delivered functionality, report adoption honestly, and provide actionable updates to senior leadership. One workstream focuses on member-facing applications; the other covers financial systems, bookkeeping, and credit linkage.

Own data governance and consent for a national rural platform serving millions of self-help group members. Responsibilities include mapping data and purposes, designing multilingual consent flows, creating access, retention, deletion, sharing, and lineage frameworks, translating Indian data protection law into engineering requirements, testing flows with communities, supporting government handover, and preparing actionable briefs. The role requires field engagement, policy and technical fluency, Hindi, and 25–30% travel.

Leads the DPI and Digital Governance consulting domain and the ICDIA programme. Owns offerings, quality, revenue pipeline, client and funder relationships, milestone-based delivery, budgets, risk management, team leadership, ecosystem engagement, and handover planning. The role requires extensive digital government or development consulting experience, multi-country programme leadership, donor-funded delivery expertise, knowledge of India’s DPI ecosystem, technical fluency, and willingness to travel 30 percent.

Design, build, and own end-to-end web application modules across backend, frontend, and infrastructure. Integrate LLM-powered features (RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering), ensure code quality with tests and CI/CD, optimize performance and databases, participate in architecture and client discussions, and mentor peers while driving reliable delivery and technical vision.

Lead India business unit strategy and growth: win and manage client accounts, oversee project delivery and finances, supervise and mentor teams, support business development, design market strategies, and engage stakeholders across government, donors, and private sector.

Lead technical execution across client engagements: author RFP responses, architect solutions, write and review code, debug production issues, integrate AI features, manage CI/CD and infrastructure, run sprints, hire and mentor engineers, and own client-facing technical communication through delivery and handover.

Manage subcontract and teaming agreements, develop and monitor proposal and project budgets, track contract deliverables and performance, support project operations and compliance, liaise between consulting, finance and business development, and ensure donor regulation adherence for donor-funded projects.

Manage bookkeeping, monthly closures, statutory and audit compliance, MIS and budgeting, cross‑country transactions, contract vetting, tax and labour compliance, support bids/pricing, mentor juniors, and improve finance processes for grants/contracts and group entities.