Job Description
About the Organization:
nTRYST is IIT Bombay's translational research foundation - turning lab-stage science into deployable technology with industry, government & startups.
nTRYST offers the substance of mission-driven work, the intellectual environment of IIT Bombay, and the pace and agency of an early-stage institution — the prospect to build a function from the ground up rather than operate within an established one.
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nJob Purpose
nThe Head – Program Management is responsible for TRYST's Program Management Office, comprising Organizational Program Management (OPM) and Technical Program Management (TPM), and serves as the single point of accountability for cross-functional and institutional initiatives that fall outside the mandate of any individual function. This role drives such initiatives to completion, oversees TPM's governance and reporting standards, and builds the OPM team responsible for this work.
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nKey responsibilities
n1.Organizational Program Management (OPM)
n• Serve as the primary owner and orchestrator of complex, ambiguous,



cross-functional organizational initiatives, including the integration of institutional units where staff transition from temporary contracts to permanent TRYST employment and coordination is required across Finance, HR, IT, and policy.
n• Serve as the primary point of accountability for such initiatives: define the plan where none exists, direct the workstreams and stakeholders involved, and deliver the outcome, while functional heads (HR, Finance, IT, Marketing, Procurement, and others) retain ownership of decisions within their respective domains and contribute time-boxed expertise rather than owning delivery.
n• Resolve operational disagreements between functions directly in the course of driving a project. Escalate to the CEO only where resolution requires a decision outside OPM's mandate, such as budget reallocation, policy exceptions, or disputes between function heads that OPM is not p

📌 Head - Program Management (Mumbai)
🏢 TRYST IIT Bombay
📍 Mumbai