The/Nudge Institute - Senior Manager - Product - The Nudge Prize

About The/Nudge:

The/Nudge is an action institute working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime. We partner with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. We are a collective of some of India's best leaders and entrepreneurs from across the industry, academia, government, and development sectors, and our work is organized across three impact streams:

Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE): exists to enable underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives

Centre for Rural Development (CRD): exists to enable families to come out of extreme poverty

Centre for Social Innovation (CSI): exists to nudge top talent to solve India's biggest challenges

About The/Nudge Prize:

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 CSI impact stream and is a strategic partner to build a thriving livelihood ecosystem across India's development landscape.

The/Nudge Prize aims to induce population scale solutions & innovations that have a disproportionate impact on stagnant livelihood opportunities & ecosystems for vulnerable segments - induced solutions should help these segments move out of dual poverty traps of income and time.

And therefore by conducting 'result based challenges', The/Nudge Prize aims to provide an initial risk capital to solve problems for the bottom 30%, while building an ecosystem to ensure long-term viability of the solutions

At The/Nudge you will:

- Be an early team member - spend time across the functions of the program and identifying 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

(The actual role might evolve slightly based on your relevant experience and the overlap between organization requirements & your interests.)

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 bring 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

- 8-10 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

- Sstrong 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

- has designed programs in the social or impact sector