Public Policy Lead

Location: New Delhi

Type: Full time

Experience: 10+ years

WHO WE ARE

PanScience Innovations (PSI) is India's leading AI and Deep Tech startup studio, based in New Delhi. Rather than investing in companies from the outside, we co-found them: we originate the idea, embed a team from day one, and build out the product, technology, go-to-market, operations, finance, and legal functions alongside each venture's core team. We have co-founded 24+ ventures across healthcare, finance, judiciary, media, and industrial AI, and our role is to take deep science that would otherwise stay in a lab and turn it into a company that can stand on its own.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You will be looped into multiple portfolio ventures rather than sitting inside just one, working closely with each venture's team as well as PanScience's central studio functions. Many of our ventures sell technology to government departments and public sector bodies, and regulatory and procurement exposure varies by sector even though the underlying skill set does not.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Lead our engagement with government buyers, guiding ventures through public procurement processes, fromunderstanding tender requirements and eligibility criteria to bid positioning and submission.
- Track and interpret procurement rules, policy, and regulation across the sectors our ventures touch, including AI governance, data protection, health tech, and fintech, and translate them into what each team needs to do differently.
- Build and maintain relationships with ministries, government departments, public sector undertakings, regulators,



and industry bodies on behalf of PanScience and its ventures.
- Represent PanScience and its ventures in consultations, pre-bid meetings, working groups, and industry
- forums.
- Flag policy and procurement shifts early, before they turn into compliance fire drills for any one venture.
- Help our portfolio treat policy and procurement fluency as a competitive advantage rather than only a risk
- function.

WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING

- 10+ years of experience in public policy, government affairs, or regulatory strategy, with the majority of that experience in government procurement. Tech, health, or fintech sector exposure is preferred.
- Hands-on experience in direct procurement of software and hardware for the government, with a proven
- record of managing the process end to end.
- Experience handling tenders with a minimum value of INR 100 Crore.
- The ability to read a draft bill, tender document, or policy notification and explain, in plain language, what it means for a team's roadmap.
- Existing relationships across relevant ministries, government departments, regulators, or industry associations in India.
- Comfort working across multiple ventures and sectors at once, rather than sitting inside a single company's policy function.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Within your first few months, you should have mapped the regulatory and procurement landscape relevant to each venture and become the go-to person teams check with before a major decision. Longer term, success means our ventures are consistently ahead of regulatory shifts rather than reacting to them, and are well placed to win and deliver on government engagements.

📌 Public Policy Lead (New Delhi)
🏢 PanScience Innovations (PSI)
📍 New Delhi