Karya’s mission is to leverage the AI revolution to create dignified earning and learning prospects 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 recent AI economy that is equitable, inclusive, and community driven.

This role delivers the end-to-end analytics and measurement function at Karya within the MERL team. The Lead will act as the critical bridge between backend data systems, measurement and research frameworks, and organisational decision-making. This is a builder role under ambiguity.

Core Responsibilities
Deliver analytics strategy and roadmap
Work with R&I; (Research & Impact) leadership to iteratively define what Karya should measure across earnings, engagement, productivity,



and impact. The two critical areas for automated pipelines will be
Worker Impact and Well Being
Engagement and Quality by Type of Tasks, Projects and Metrics to Strengthen Re-engagement
Build an analytics roadmap aligned with organisational priorities, as per existing reporting mandates
Shift from ad-hoc analysis to systematic decision-making
Build and own analytics systems
Design automated monitoring pipelines (SQL, Metabase, backend integration)
Develop reusable data models
Ensure outputs are scalable and decision-oriented
Bridge SQL and social research thinking
Translate research questions into SQL logic and measurable indicators
Work on worker measurement, noisy data, and integration of disparate data sources.
Ensure outputs are technically robust and methodologically sound
Operate under ambiguity
Convert vague questions into structured hypotheses an

📌 Analytics Lead Bengaluru (India)
🏢 Karya
📍 India