About Karya:
Karya’s mission is to leverage the AI revolution to create dignified earning and learning opportunities for low-income communities across the world. In India, our smartphone-based digital work platform has enabled over 120,000 people to build language datasets and evaluate AI models while earning fair wages. With pilots in Kenya and Ethiopia and partnerships with leading AI labs, we are advancing language technologies for underrepresented communities. By combining dignified digital work with frontier AI innovation, Karya hopes to build a new AI economy that is equitable, inclusive, and community-driven.
About the Role:
Karya is seeking a Head of Product to lead our product strategy and vision as we scale our digital work platform into a high-impact global product. This is a leadership role for someone who can think long-term, architect scalable systems, and translate mission into measurable impact.
As the Head of Product, you’ll define and execute the end-to-end product roadmap — balancing innovation with operational excellence. You’ll lead and mentor the product team, collaborate with cross-functional leaders, and drive decisions that shape how millions of underserved users earn and learn through Karya.
If you’re passionate about building tech-for-good products at scale, and want to lead product innovation with social impact, we’d love to hear from you.
This role is based in Bangalore
Key ResponsibilitiesProduct Vision & Strategy
- Define and drive the product strategy for Karya’s digital work platform, ensuring it can scale seamlessly to support a rapidly growing gig workforce. Think in terms of system architecture – designing and optimizing features/workflows.
- Measure key performance metrics and design experiments to continuously improve throughput. Launch new features and refine processes to manage our workforce effectively and handle increasingly complex tasks at scale.
- Lead product discovery, innovation, and portfolio prioritization across multiple product lines (platform, worker experience, client experience, and tools).
- Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing product team (PMs, UI/UX designers).
- Foster a data-driven and customer-obsessed culture that values experimentation, learning, and execution.
- Work closely with the executive team and board to align on key outcomes, OKRs, and investment priorities.
- Partner with engineering and AI/ML teams to deliver seamless experiences for workers, clients, and internal users.
- Use data, experimentation, and research to continuously improve engagement, throughput, and data quality.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Operations, and Partnerships to execute on the product roadmap with excellence.
- Represent the product function in leadership discussions, influencing company direction with data-backed insights.
- Build processes and systems to enable rapid experimentation and iteration across teams.
- Stay ahead of emerging trends in the gig economy, AI data platforms, and workforce innovation.
- Represent Karya externally with partners, funders, and the broader ecosystem.
- Experience: 10+ years of total experience with at least 6+ years in product management, including leadership of PM teams. Experience scaling B2C or marketplace products to 100K+ DAUs.
- Strategic Leadership: Proven success in defining product vision, building roadmaps, and driving measurable business and impact outcomes.
- Domain Expertise: Experience in building products in spaces like AI/ML, PaaS, marketplace, or workforce automation platforms preferred.
- Technical Fluency: Ability to collaborate deeply with engineering on architecture and systems design.
- Analytical & Data-Driven: Strong analytical skills with expertise in experimentation, metrics, and A/B testing.
- Execution Excellence: Ability to move fast, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver consistently in a high-growth environment.
- People Leadership: Inspirational leader who can grow teams, set high standards, and build alignment across functions.
- Competitive Compensation: Commensurate with experience and market standards.
- Mission-Driven Growth: Join a team that’s combining technology and social impact at scale.
- Impact: Build products that redefine how technology can create economic opportunity for millions.
Karya is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact [email protected].
Join us and help build a platform that empowers communities and transforms the way work is delivered at scale.
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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
