Position: Associate, Growth (India)

Team: Growth

Level and grade: L2 Associate

Position type: Full time, Permanent

Location: Delhi, India. Hybrid

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer, who leads Growth in India

Travel: Up to 20 percent, within India

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 are a member of the Growth team with your own responsibilities. You own the India pipeline record, you produce the buyer research and the first drafts of proposals and concept notes that the team works from,



and you manage partner follow-ups and events from start to finish. Your work is reviewed by the Growth leaders, and you are expected to run it with limited day-to-day supervision.

Core Job Responsibilities

Own the pipeline record for India. Every prospect is logged with its stage, its next step and a date, and the record is accurate at the end of each week.
Produce the research brief on each institution before the team meets it: who runs the department, what it has funded before, which programmes are live, where the budget sits, and who else is already working with it.
Write the first full draft of proposals, concept notes and expressions of interest, including the budget from our pricing model and rate card, ready for a domain leader’s review.
Track tenders, requests for proposal and funding calls, and recommend to the Growth leaders which ones to pursue and why.
Manage partner follow-ups end to end: the note after the meeting, th

📌 Associate, Growth (India)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 India