# Head of Meesho Foundation

**Company**: Meesho
**Location**: Bangalore, Karnataka
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Role

Democratise internet commerce for all consumers, businesses, and ecosystem partners, not just limited to Meesho, by bridging gaps that market forces cannot solve , through access, affordability, and resilience.

## What You'll Do

- Build the Foundation from zero: Build the strategy and operating model

- Launch 2–3 pilot interventions in the first 90 days based on Meesho's strategic advantages (distribution, tech, data)

- Own government and institutional partnerships: such as but not limited to NITI Aayog, state livelihood missions, multilateral funders and credible NGOs

- Leverage Meesho's platform capabilities to design DPI-style solutions for digital literacy, insurance distribution, seller onboarding, and training at scale

- Catalyse ecosystem change: open-source data for researchers, pilot with govt funding/NGOs, nudge companies to invest in Bharat

- Lead and hire the Foundation team including a cross-functional pod (tech, product, design, data science)

- Manage compliance and governance: CSR committee reporting, board-level impact reporting

## What You Will Need

- 10–15 years in the Indian development ecosystem with deep, trust-based relationships across government (central + state), credible NGOs, and institutional funders

- Demonstrated ability to design and execute programs at scale that measurably improved lives , not just grant-making or compliance

- Comfort operating in a fast-paced tech company with quarterly OKRs, product managers, and engineers

- Builder mindset , this is a 0-to-1 role with no existing team, processes, or legacy programs

- Experience at the intersection of technology and development , digital public, social enterprises, or tech-forward corporate foundations

- Experience with micro-entrepreneurs, small sellers, gig workers, or logistics networks

- Familiarity with impact measurement methodologies and financial inclusion programs

## Ideal Background Archetypes

- Development Sector Leader - Led programs at a credible foundation (Tata Trusts, Azim Premji, Dell Foundation) with exposure to tech-enabled interventions. Strong NGO and funder networks.

- Social Enterprise Builder - Built or scaled a social enterprise in financial inclusion, last-mile logistics, or digital literacy for Tier 2+ India. Builder's mindset + ground-level Bharat understanding.

- Govt-to-Practice Leader - Served at NITI Aayog, a state livelihood mission (JEEViKA, Kudumbashree), or policy think tank, then moved into execution. Deep govt relationships.

## Why This Opportunity Is Unique

- Meesho's distribution to millions of ecosystem partners across Bharat is a platform most foundations would take a decade to build

- Technology is a first-class lever , you'll have a dedicated tech, product, and design pod to build DPI-style solutions

- You report directly to the CxOs, with full access to Meesho's leadership, data, and resources

- The Foundation's mission extends Meesho's core purpose to populations the business can't yet reach profitably

## Skills

### Required
- government partnerships
- institutional partnerships
- DPI-style solutions
- digital literacy
- insurance distribution
- seller onboarding
- training at scale
- impact measurement methodologies
- financial inclusion programs

### Nice to have
- development sector
- social enterprise
- tech-forward corporate foundations
- micro-entrepreneurs
- small sellers
- gig workers
- logistics networks

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