Careers

Community Relations Executive:

 

Background: NextDrop is expanding and looking for passionate individuals to join our team. You will be specifically working on establishing relationship with our subscriber community. What does that exactly mean? You will be the primary contact in the areas you will work in, basically for them you are NextDrop! You will become best friends with the residents, you'll understand their lives, what problems they face, and what makes them tick. Why? So that you can assess and see if our services make a difference in their lives and in what way.

You Should Apply For This Job If:

You love interacting with people and can talk to literally anybody: from your friend’s grandmother you met 2 minutes ago, to the guy who is fixing the road in front of your house. You absolutely love figuring out what makes people tick, and use that to bring about behavior change. But most of all, you are simply passionate about making a real difference in the world, and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.

You’re a match if:  

• You have a Bachelors Degree , but are really dissatisfied at the way you are currently putting it to use.
  
  
• You’re a pro at speaking Kannada (and English too!)
  
  

Salary : On Par With Market..

Interested?  Contact team@nextdrop.org

 

Branch Manager:

 

Background: NextDrop is expanding and is looking for passionate individuals to lead efforts in business units throughout India. Your job will be to specifically execute the NextDrop mission: providing great information on piped water availability to families and utilities throughout urban India. This is accomplished by managing the core team (3-5 Individuals), along with 5-10 sales associates, to execute this mission. This entails: overseeing customer acquisition and retention, product development, and being the face of NextDrop for the water utility. You will also be responsible for keeping tabs on the financial health of the branch, and taking it to profitability.

You Should Apply For This Job If:

You have always wanted to run your own business, and love the freedom that comes with it. You love challenges, and are excited by the prospect of implementing your ideas and doing things nobody has done before. You are literally able to converse with everyone- be it the maid who washes your dishes, or the prime minister of India. You never see problems: only opportunities to learn something new and try new things. You love working on teams, and love motivating others to be the best they can be. Your middle name is "Leadbyexample". Numbers excite you- you are that person who sits up until 2am making sure your checkbook and bank statement has accounted for all your spending (just because you want to). You also love the details: you record everything that goes right, AND everything that goes wrong so you can fix it next time. You believe in the hacker mentality: Fail fast, fail often, but learn every time. But most of all, you are simply passionate about making a real difference in the world, and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.

You’re a match if:  

• You have a Bachelors Degree (Commerce is preferred, but we also welcome others who are closet entrepreneurs)
  
  
• Have at least 2 years of management experience (be it leading a technical team of developers or running your own business)
  
  
• Have exceptional English skills (both written and oral)
  
  
• You and Excel are best friends (well, it’s a tie between Excel and Powerpoint)

You are an Exceptional Candidate if:  

• You have an MBA
  
  
• You can speak Kannada in addition to Hindi and English
  

Compensation : Commensurate with experience.

Interested?  Contact team@nextdrop.org

 

Vice President of Product Development

 

Background: NextDrop is growing rapidly, and is looking for passionate individuals to join our management team. Besides stating the obvious (leading the product development efforts throughout India), your job will specifically entail tailoring our current product to fit multiple urban geographies throughout India by optimizing & innovating on our current product offering. What does that mean in English? It means that you will be the master at creating incentive programs to keep the information flowing through NextDrop and to our customers. While that will be your primary task, true to startup form, you will wear many hats. What are those hats you ask? (Aw, where’s the surprise in that?) We can give you a hint: we promise you will never be bored, and by the time you are done, you should be able to write a book on what to do (or not to do!) to create a successful startup.

You Should Apply For This Job If:

You have always wanted to run your own business, and love the freedom that comes with it. You love challenges, and are excited by the prospect of implementing your ideas and doing things nobody has done before. You are literally able to converse with everyone- be it the maid who washes your dishes, or the prime minister of India. You never see problems: only opportunities to learn something new and try new things. You love working on teams, and love motivating others to be the best they can be. Your middle name is "Leadbyexample". Numbers excite you- you are that person who sits up until 2am making sure your checkbook and bank statement has accounted for all your spending (just because you want to). You also love the details: you record everything that goes right, AND everything that goes wrong so you can fix it next time. You believe in the hacker mentality: Fail fast, fail often, but learn every time. But most of all, you are simply passionate about making a real difference in the world, and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.

You’re a match if:  

• You have a Bachelors Degree (Commerce/Business is preferred, but if we also welcome others who are closet entrepreneurs).
  
  
• Have 2 years of management experience (be it leading a technical team of developers or running your own business).
  
  
• Have exceptional English skills (both written and oral).
  
  
• You and Excel are best friends (well, it’s a tie between Excel and Powerpoint).

 You’re an Exceptional Candidate if:

• You have an MBA.


• You can speak Kannada in addition to Hindi and English.

Compensation : Commensurate with experience.

Interested?  Contact team@nextdrop.org

 

Assistant Programmer

Background: NextDrop is expanding and looking for passionate individuals to join our growing tech team. You will specifically be working closely with our beloved Data Loving Hacker to create a seamless user experience for the customers who receive our SMS water alerts, while also creating custom web based technology for the water utility- to enable them to make data driven decisions. Your job will also entail being the guardian and keeper of all our data- which means looking after our custom built SMS/IVR system. Finally, you’ll be making custom internal analytics to track all of the important pieces of information – so we can all figure out how to improve and grow our company.

You Should Apply For This Job If:

You are itching to make your ideas come to life, and create amazing products that have the ability to impact millions of lives. You can take a real world problem, and create a technical solution for it- the prospect of doing things nobody has ever done before excites you. You love data, and truly believe that making data driven decisions will help any organization succeed. You also love the details and have been criticized as being too much of a perfectionist- you won’t let something pass if there’s even an extra space between a comma and the next word. You love to travel, and you don’t like to sit in the same place all the time. Similarly, you enjoy challenges, and love the prospect of doing different things every day. You also love the details: you record everything that goes right, AND everything that goes wrong so you can fix it next time. You believe in the hacker mentality: Fail fast, fail often, but learn every time. But most of all, you are simply passionate about making a real difference in the world, and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.

You’re a match if:  

• You are a web development whiz, but more particularly, you love to use Python (Django web framework), HTML, CSS, Javascript.
  
  
• You and the Google Maps API are best friends (but you are also friends with the nginx web server).
  
  
• REST APIs: No Problem.
  


• Sysadmin and server management- piece of cake

Salary: On Par With Market..

Interested?  Contact team@nextdrop.org

 

Product Manager

Background: NextDrop is expanding and looking for talent to lead our product development efforts globally. You will be specifically in charge of our user interface/human computer interaction design. What does that exactly mean? (Don't you hate it when companies throw all these buzz words into a job description but it could really mean a million things?) You will be the primary agent of technological change: you'll be working with the field level operators who we source data from and make sure that our product is as easy to use as possible. You and the operators will become best friends, and you'll understand their lives, what problems they face, and what makes them tick. Why? So that you can develop (technical and/or non technical) ways for them to easily and consistently provide us the water delivery information we need to make a difference in peoples' lives.

You Should Apply For This Job If:

You love interacting with people and can talk to literally anybody:  from your friend’s grandmother you met 2 minutes ago, to the guy who is fixing the road in front of your house.  You are convinced that you were born to live at the intersection between technology and society.  You absolutely love figuring out what makes people tick, and use that (in addition to your love of technology) to bring about behavior change. You also love the details: you record everything that goes right, AND everything that goes wrong so you can fix it next time. Your motto: Fail fast, fail often, but learn every time. You love to do research and you love to learn- from talking with , to reading about how other successful companies sell their product, you want to know it all.  But most of all, you are simply passionate about making a real difference in the world, and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.

You’re a match if:  

• You have a Bachelors Degree , but are really dissatisfied at the way you are currently putting it to use.
  
  
• Have some sales and management experience (be it setting up your own small scale tailoring business for your apartment building in 10th standard, to leading a 20 person technical team at your previous job, it all counts!)
  
  
• You’re a pro at speaking Kannada (and English too!)

Salary: On Par With Market..

Interested?  Contact team@nextdrop.org