Bangalore (with regular travel across India) | Type: Full-time
uDot has developed a refreshable tactile display, a 2,400-pin device that renders Braille, diagrams, graphs, and even tactile animations paired with a curriculum-aligned learning platform for blind and visually impaired students. Over 95% of blind children in India drop Math and Science by Grade 7 because there's no way for them to engage with these subjects independently. We're a young, fast-moving hardware and edtech startup already deployed in live classrooms, and scaling across India with an international pipeline opening up in the US and Europe.

This is not a desk job with a fixed script — it's a founding-team-adjacent role where you'll be the connective tissue between schools, NGOs, and CSR/donor partners, and you'll be trusted to figure out what needs to happen next.
You'll be responsible for the partnerships that bring devices into schools, the relationships that keep those partnerships healthy, and the judgment calls that determine whether a given school-NGO-CSR combination is actually going to work on the ground.

Partner relationship management
Own and maintain relationships with CSR partners, NGOs
be a confident, credible voice for what we're building
Scout and qualify the right CSR partners and implementation NGOs for uDot's deployment model
Build and write partnership and CSR proposals tailored to each partner's priorities and funding cycles
Handle whatever documentation each partnership requires — MOUs, deployment agreements, reporting templates, and anything else that comes up
Deployment coordination and fit assessment
Sit at the intersection of school, NGO, and CSR expectations, and make sure they're actually compatible before a deployment is committed to
Assess whether a school can accommodate the deployment — infrastructure, staffing, classroom space, willingness
Evaluate whether the student cohort's learning level and needs fit uDot's current content and deployment parameters
Collect and organize the school-side data needed to plan and justify a deployment
Flag mismatches early rather than let a bad-fit deployment go live

Someone who can operate as a generalist — this role will touch relationship management, strategy, coordination, writing, and fieldwork in the same week, sometimes the same day
you'll be the one writing proposals and reports that represent uDot externally
Comfortable making judgment calls with incomplete information and course-correcting as things change — this is a startup, not a mature org with a playbook for everything
Willingness to travel regularly, including to schools and partner sites outside Bangalore
Prior experience in partnerships, CSR, NGO relations, education-sector program management, or a related field is a strong plus, but the right instincts and work ethic matter more than a specific résumé line
Priorities shift, timelines move, and you'll often be building the process at the same time as you're running it.

Manager, Strategic Partnerships & Program Management

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