Job Overview:
The Executive Assistant will play a pivotal role in supporting the CEO of Karya by providing administrative, operational, and strategic assistance. The ideal candidate should be detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to handle a diverse set of tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Administrative Support:
- Manage the CEO's calendar, including scheduling meetings,
conferences, and travel. - Coordinate logistics for internal and external meetings and events.
- Handle correspondence on behalf of the CEO, ensuring timely
responses.
Strategic Assistance:
- Assist in preparing presentations, reports, and data analysis for
board meetings, stakeholder engagements, and team reviews. - Conduct research on relevant topics to inform the CEO's decisions.
- Summarise and brief the CEO on important documents, emails, or
other communications.
Communication:
- Act as a liaison between the CEO's office and other departments,
ensuring effective communication. - Draft, edit, and proofread official communication, including memos,
announcements, and newsletters.
Miscellaneous Tasks:
- Manage day-to-day operational and administrative duties as
required. - Assist in personal tasks for the CEO, if required.
Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field.
● Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in an executive support role.
● Proficiency in Google Workspace and Notion.
● Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask.
● Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
● High level of professionalism and discretion.
● Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
● Familiarity with the industry and Karya's mission is a plus.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Karya, we are on a mission to bring AI-based earning and learning opportunities to low-income communities. The AI revolution has created a massive amount of digital work surrounding data generation, labelling, and enrichment. From building multimodal Indic language datasets and human-in-the-loop tasks to mitigating bias and culturally-sensitive LLM evaluations, Karya’s workers in rural India enable cutting-edge, inclusive AI innovations.
We have also built a one-of-a-kind digital work platform that divides AI-data tasks into microtasks and distributes them to individuals in need of supplementary income. So far, our platform has been used to distribute 40 million+ tasks to 40,000+ people in India. Our platform and model allows us to provide our workers some of the highest wages in the global data market - nearly 20 times the Indian minimum wage.
We were on the cover of the Time Magazine and Bloomberg last year, and Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella recently highlighted our work in his keynote. Karya has been supported by organisations like Microsoft, Google, Gates Foundation, ACT Grants, Fast Forward, 100X Accelerator, DRK Foundation, Mulago, Echoing Green, The/Nudge Institute among others
