Assistant Director - Engineering & Industry Programs

Credible working knowledge of at least one domain: full-stack engineering, data science and ML, systems engineering, or algorithms and software engineering. Enough to have a substantive conversation with a CTO or research scientist and tell a real problem from packaging

The ability to map an engineering organisation's culture from a conversation and judge whether a partnership will actually stretch students or just look good in a report

You are one of two profiles. An engineering degree from a top institution, an MBA from a top IIM, and 2 to 5 years at BCG, Bain, McKinsey, or AT Kearney. Or you skipped the MBA and spent 3 to 7 years building inside a technology startup, close enough to engineering teams that founders trusted you with things that mattered

You are not a placement person and you do not think like one. You are intellectually curious, comfortable with founders, scientists, and policymakers in the same week, and you build relationships that last because you bring genuine value to every conversation

You are energised by building something from scratch. The ambiguity of early-stage institution building does not unsettle you. You know which relationships are worth months of patient nurturing and which are not

Existing relationships in India's deep-tech startup ecosystem, developer communities, or government technology programs