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Policy Programs Manager - Josh Talks AI Josh Talks AI Location: Gurgaon Reporting to: Founders Experience: 8+ years Travel: Regular travel across India expected About Josh Talks AI Josh Talks operates across three divisions: Media, Education, and AI. Josh Talks AI is the fastest-growing division and works with frontier and foundation-model labs to help build better voice AI for India. We build the data, benchmarks, and evaluation infrastructure needed to improve speech and voice systems for real Indian usage across languages, accents, dialects, code-switching, and conversational speech. About the Role Josh Talks AI is looking for a Policy Programs Manager to lead high-trust, high-execution programs at the intersection of AI, government, research, and ecosystem partnerships. This is not a traditional policy role focused only on monitoring regulation. It is a builder role. You will help shape how institutions engage with voice AI in India by designing and running the programs, convenings, partnerships, and external initiatives that move the ecosystem forward.



You will lead stakeholder engagement, roundtables, state-wise launch events for the Voice of India benchmark, government-sanctioned data projects, and community-building efforts that bring together policymakers, researchers, AI labs, academic institutions, civil society, and industry leaders. The right person for this role can move comfortably between ministries, state departments, universities, research teams, and senior external stakeholders and can translate complex technical work into credible, well-run public and institutional programs. Responsibilities In this role, you will: ● Lead stakeholder engagement across central and state government, regulators, public institutions, academic partners, industry bodies, AI labs, and civil society organizations relevant to voice AI and language infrastructure in India. ● Design and execute state-wise launch programs for the Voice of India benchmark, including

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