Karya
Why was Karya featured on the cover of Time Magazine, highlighted by Satya Nadella, and chosen by Google as a partner for Project Vaani?
Because Karya is on a mission to provide AI-enabled earning and learning opportunities to economically underserved communities, creating a pathway out of poverty. At the same time, Karya delivers high-quality, timely, and cost-effective data to its clients.
Karya’s workers earn at least 20 times the Indian minimum wage. Through its unique digital work platform, Karya has completed over 40 million digital tasks and is on track to positively impact over 100,000 workers by the end of the year. Looking ahead, Karya aims to scale its impact and bring economic opportunities to millions of underserved individuals across India.
About the Role
Location: Bangalore
Karya is seeking an innovative Senior Product Manager to scale and manage its core product: the Karya digital work platform. This role involves owning the product strategy, optimizing platform performance, gathering user feedback, and launching new features to enhance task distribution at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Platform Strategy & Architecture - Define and drive the product strategy, ensuring the platform can scale to support a rapidly growing gig workforce. Design and optimize system workflows and features.
- Improve Usability for All Stakeholders - Enhance the platform experience for workers, PaaS users, clients, and administrators by continuously measuring and improving usability.
- Drive Throughput Optimization - Monitor key performance metrics and design experiments to improve throughput. Develop features to handle increasingly complex tasks at scale.
- Data-Driven Decision Making - Build systems to track, analyze, and optimize key metrics, such as worker engagement, task completion rates, and data quality. Use real-time analytics and A/B testing to drive decisions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with engineering, design, operations, and sales teams to execute the product roadmap and align initiatives with business goals.
Qualifications & Skills
- 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in gig economy, marketplace, or workforce automation domains.
- Strong technical collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate infrastructure trade-offs and platform scalability challenges.
- Proven analytical mindset, with experience leveraging data, experimentation (A/B testing, analytics), and performance optimization.
- Experience building and scaling marketplace or workforce management products, balancing task distribution and supply-demand dynamics.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments, with a strong execution focus.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of working across multiple teams and leadership levels.
Benefits & Perks
- Flexible vacation and leave policy
- Flexible work arrangements
- Insurance as per industry standards
- Access to industry experts and networking opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer
Karya is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
For any accommodation requests related to disabilities during the application process, please reach out to hr@karya.in.
