Position: Associate Director, Global Rural Economy & Development

Team: AI and Digital Transformation

Level and grade: L6 Associate Director

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: Delhi, India. Remote only in rare exceptions.

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Travel: 20 to 30 percent

Mandate: Associate Director: quality sign-off, a domain budget and a seat at pricing

About Us

APLYD helps governments, multilateral institutions, development finance institutions and foundations use AI in public systems. Most public-sector AI stops at the pilot. Our work is getting it into everyday service delivery and keeping it running once we leave.

Athena Infonomics has done this work for years. In 2026 we set it up as its own company. We cover strategy and readiness, field data and last-mile reach, design and build, evaluation and audit, and scale and production.

440+ engagements

240+ global clients
85+ specialists
7 countries
5 continents

The Role

You lead APLYD’s work in the rural economy across all the markets we work in, and you bring in the work:



agriculture and food systems, livestock, livelihoods, farmer producer organisations, self-help groups, rural digital platforms and Panchayati Raj institutions. You are responsible for the domain’s offer, clients, pricing and quality. You approve every deliverable, proposal and publication in the domain, manage a ring-fenced domain budget, and review the scope and price of every proposal before it is submitted.

You carry a revenue target, and part of your pay is linked to the revenue you originate. Origination credit starts from the first contract you close, the rate increases once you pass target, and there is no cap. In your first year, qualified opportunities you originated that have reached contracting are also credited, because institutional procurement often takes longer than a financial year.

Core Job Responsibilities

Own institutional opportunities end to end. You take them from the first conversation t

📌 Associate Director, Global Rural Economy (India)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 India