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As a Platform Head at Wadhwani Innovation Network (WIN), your primary responsibility will be to lead the development of a national innovation enablement system. This role involves three core functions: - Build entrepreneurship capacity in academic researchers through skilling, experiential learning, and founder-readiness tools. - Develop and manage a national network of mentors, experts, and institutions that support researchers in the translation journey. - Lead product ownership of the WIN Innovation Platform, coordinating its development with the Foundation's internal tech teams and external vendors. Key Responsibilities: - Design and scale programs to equip researchers with translation and startup skills. - Embed founder-readiness pedagogy, playbooks, and expert-led sessions into researcher journeys. - Identify, onboard, and manage mentors, experts, investors, incubators, accelerators, service providers, and funding organizations. - Manage day-to-day functioning of the network, ensuring partners and beneficiaries engage meaningfully. - Maintain engagement through structured activities such as masterclasses, expert connects, and clinics. - Track usage, outcomes, and satisfaction to continuously improve network quality. - Translate program and user needs into product requirements for the WIN Innovation Platform. - Coordinate with internal tech/product teams to build or customize platform features. - Ensure platform integrates modules for grant management, milestone tracking, skilling, mentorship, and outcome measurement. - Collaborate with internal AI experts to scope and integrate GenAI tools. - Support onboarding, training, and adoption of the platform across institutions and partners. - Build and lead a team of program leads or managers across three core workstreams. - Define success metrics, work plans, and accountability frameworks for each vertical. - Serve as the primary representative of this portfolio to WIN and Foundation leadership. Required Qualifications: - Postgraduate/ Ph.D., in any discipline of science or engineering. If you have 15+ years of experience in software product development, entrepreneurial ecosystem building, innovation, research translation, startup incubation, or skilling ecosystems, including entrepreneurial capacity building products, along with familiarity with managing data-rich, multi-feature platforms and strong relationship/stakeholder management skills, you are encouraged to apply for this dynamic role at Wadhwani Innovation Network (WIN) in India. As a Platform Head at Wadhwani Innovation Network (WIN), your primary responsibility will be to lead the development of a national innovation enablement system. This role involves three core functions: - Build entrepreneurship capacity in academic researchers through skilling, experiential learning, and founder-readiness tools. - Develop and manage a national network of mentors, experts, and institutions that support researchers in the translation journey. - Lead product ownership of the WIN Innovation Platform, coordinating its development with the Foundation's internal tech teams and external vendors. Key Responsibilities: - Design and scale programs to equip researchers with translation and startup skills. - Embed founder-readiness pedagogy, playbooks, and expert-led sessions into researcher journeys. - Identify, onboard, and manage mentors, experts, investors, incubators, accelerators, service providers, and funding organizations. - Manage day-to-day functioning of the network, ensuring partners and beneficiaries engage meaningfully. - Maintain engagement through structured activities such as masterclasses, expert connects, and clinics. - Track usage, outcomes, and satisfaction to continuously improve network quality. - Translate program and user needs into product requirements for the WIN Innovation Platform. - Coordinate with internal tech/product teams to build or customize platform features. - Ensure platform integrates modules for grant management, milestone tracking, skilling, mentorship, and outcome measurement. - Collaborate with internal AI experts to scope and integrate GenAI tools. - Support onboarding, training, and adoption of the platform across institutions and partners. - Build and lead a team of program leads or managers across three core workstreams. - Define success metrics, work plans, and accountability frameworks for each vertical. - Serve as the primary representative of this portfolio to WIN and Foundation leadership. Required Qualifications: - Postgraduate/ Ph.D., in any discipline of science or engineering. If you have 15+ years of experience in software product development, entrepreneurial ecosystem building, innovation, research translation, startup incubation, or skilling ecosystems, including entrepreneurial capacity building products, along with familiarity with managing data-rich, multi-feature platforms and strong relationship/stakeholder management skills, you are encouraged to
