Position: Manager, AI and Digital Transformation (Rural Economy and Development)

Team: AI and Digital Transformation

Level and grade: L4 Manager

Position type: Full time, permanent

Location: Delhi, with regular travel to NRLM states

Reports to: Senior Manager, AI and Digital Transformation (Rural Economy and Development)

Travel: 30 to 40 percent

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 own a workstream on a national rural digital platform used by self-help groups.



Two seats are open and the responsibilities are the same; the difference is the subject matter. One seat covers the member-facing applications, meaning the tools group members and community cadre use. The other covers financial systems and credit, meaning bookkeeping, group financial records and the credit linkage that runs on top of them.

The two seats sit alongside each other on the same platform and the same counterpart relationship.

Core Job Responsibilities

Own your workstream end to end: the use case, the specification the engineers build from, the rollout, and the adoption that follows.
Work with the government counterpart who owns your part of the platform. Run the working sessions, record the decisions, and chase the ones that stall.
Do the field work yourself. Sit with self-help group members, community cadre and block staff, and bring back what the system actually has to handle.
Write the functional specifications and acceptance criteria, and test wh

📌 Manager, AI and Digital Transformation (India)
🏢 Athena Infonomics
📍 India