If you are interested in building new kinds of work tools and learning experiences, Illumine is the place for you: 

Some examples of the kinds of digital products you will get an opportunity to design: 

• new learning experiences which help users actively participate in a class and learn from peers 
• interactive self-learning experiences and textbooks of the future 
• new self-discovery tools which help learn more about ourselves, quantifiably and provide pathways for growth and improvement 
• work tools which help us adopt better ways of thinking and working, thereby multiplying our potential 

 

Our philosophy  

We believe that digital tech can be a powerful tool to strengthen and amplify human potential, open up new possibilities in ourselves. 

 

How you will work: expect to work in quick ‘design–build–test’ sprints 

• You will plug into an “alpha product team”. It is a self-contained team which takes full responsibility for a digital product. Usually the alpha team works on new, high speed, product builds. 

• Such a team would include a product manager, a knowledge modeler, a learning architect, a measurement architect, an alpha tech builder and you, a UI/UX designer. Together the team produces working prototypes, tests it on the ground and improves it, until we have a solution which meets the set goals.  
• In this team, you will be responsible for ensuring a seamless user experience and delivering the UI screens. 
• This has the following implications: 

• • Expect to be challenged by different perspectives (from the alpha team members) to create a more “whole solution”. 
  • To be able to deliver designs at high speeds, you will need to have a strong grasp over the digital products medium. Therefore, individuals with at least 4-5 years of experience in building digital products are preferred. 

Work Culture: We value commitment to purpose & excellence

• People who thrive here are self-managed and take end-to-end responsibility for delivering a world class product. 
• We respect humility and openness to new and alternative perspectives.  
• We expect that you put purpose before self. Big individual egos are not tolerated. 
• We expect rigor in thinking, an eye for quality, beauty and user-centricity. 

 Dive Deeper

• Explore Illumine’s philosophy and work through talks from the founder, Srinivas Venkatram on our Youtube channel. 

Looking for an IT Engineer - keen on setting up a world-class IT system | Full Time | Mumbai-based


Who can apply:
- Diploma/ MCA / Engineer/ Certified Systems Engineer
- Min. 2-3 years experience in IT Setup & Management
- Open to a full time opportunity
- Open to working from the office at Dadar (E), Mumbai

Inviting you to take up the challenge of building a world-class IT system with the following aspects:

• A robust and lean IT infrastructure (hardware, software & networks) – fit for purpose, zero waste
• Strong systems for operations & maintenance –
  • ability to monitor health of the system
  • regular maintenance routines
  • planning in advance for issues/ failures - quick troubleshooting guides, strong protocols for managing crises, etc.
• Strong data protection and backup systems
• Building vendor relationships and partnerships
• Expect to work in a flat organization in a startup mode

Scope of the current IT system:

• The system is used by 35-40 users, across 2-3 locations + remote users
• Windows 10/11 systems
• MS 365, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange for communication & storage
• Data backups on NAS
• 2 parallel internet connections, Networks & Sonicwall Firewall
• Systems for Video Conferencing and Webinars
• Maintenance of domains, websites and web platforms – zero downtime

• The system is used by 35-40 users, across 2-3 locations + remote users
• Windows 10/11 systems
• MS 365, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange for communication & storage
• Data backups on NAS
• 2 parallel internet connections, Networks & Sonicwall Firewall
• Systems for Video Conferencing and Webinars
• Maintenance of domains, websites and web platforms – zero downtime

Qualities we value for this role:

• Strong hands-on technical knowledge, troubleshooting skills
• Excellence quality orientation
• Ability to design and maintain systems
• Willingness to think from first principles and innovate
• Strong learning orientation
• good people skills

Growth Path open to you:

• An opportunity to work with an experienced technology team in areas like - deployment of web platforms at scale, developing applications, managing tech. support
• An opportunity to learn about library sciences and knowledge management to build a knowledge management system
• An opportunity to learn powerful life-changing ideas of the lab
• An opportunity to work with experienced consultants to build your IT systems that are world class and user-centric

Background about Illumine: (http://www.illumine.in" target="_blank">www.illumine.in)

• Illumine is a consulting company and a foundation.
• Over 25 years, our work has impacted over 4 million people.
• Our clients include -
  • Government agencies like CBSE, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Capacity Building Commission (Mission Karmayogi)
  • Leading companies like Bharat Petroleum, State Bank of India, Indian Railways, Tata Consultancy Services, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Aditya Birla Capital, Asian Paints;
  • Colleges and Universities like IIT Delhi & Jammu, Gujarat Technological University, etc.
• We work to i) help companies, government services contribute better to society,
  ii) build self esteem and better thinking capabilities in youth and children.

 

 

Salary:

Commensurate with capability/ experience

Would you like to help teachers and coaches deliver world-class learning experiences in their classrooms, using the best of breed pedagogies backed by intensive research & field testing?

Join our team of Learning Architects.

As a Learning Architect, you could contribute in one or more of the following areas:

1. Working closely with client teams to build deep appreciation of the “operating environment” of the learner and the kind of changes we need to see happen in different client contexts.
2. Take responsibility of a complete “product build” which involves translating a high-level product vision and specifications into a learning product that can be deployed to thousands of teachers/ coaches.
3. Design and construct learning engagements, using state of art pedagogies which help teachers/ coaches achieve measurable learning outcomes.
4. Work with multiple designers and creative ecosystem partners, to enrich and strengthen the pedagogies with vivid & memorable classroom experiences.
5. Develop innovative learning models which help coaches and partners adopt and use our learning products effectively to achieve the desired learning outcomes.
6. Building a consistent visual language, visual design, composition, and representation to make the product user friendly, slick, and error free. Ensuring the whole product package is world class in terms of look, feel, quality.
7. Take “last mile” ownership to ensure smooth deployment of new learning products and scaleup.

 

About Illumine

Illumine is an organization that works on ‘meta knowledge’ – knowledge that helps people learn better, think better, choose better, design better, and work better. Illumine’s learning products are unique in that they deliver not just learning outcomes (gaining new knowledge) but also cognitive outcomes (changing the way we think and act).

Become a Leader in “Knowledge-based Selling” at Illumine Labs
Help us share the power of transformation through knowledge interventions – for business, education and social change.

In 2011, when the sales industry saw a potential breakthrough in selling called - The Challenger Sale - it upgraded the notion of selling as beyond relationship building or providing solutions to challenging the customer's assumptions and building insight-led conversations. While the Challenger Sale is still relevant, in a post-covid world, customers are not just looking to be challenged, but are also looking to build businesses that can positively impact people's lives.

Here is an opportunity for you to build the next breakthrough in sales through - Knowledge based selling- . If you believe in the future potential of knowledge-based businesses, if the opportunity of taking a knowledge "lab" to "market" excites you, then you might be just the person we are looking for.

What's the lab about?
Illumine is a Knowledge Solutions lab which builds breakthrough knowledge products and knowledge interventions.

These are aimed at enabling individuals, communities, and organizations to rise up to the challenge of a new environment, and realize their own aspirations more effectively.

The labs's Intellectual property built over the last 20 years, has been successfully deployed & impacted over 4 million people across varied industries like Banking, Information Technology, Oil and Gas, Construction, Steel, Insurance, Mutual Funds etc. and some of the largest educational institutions in India like IIT Delhi and Gujarat Technological university.

What's the "to market" about?
We have converted these lab innovations into a range of transformation products & interventions. We seek to now open our doors digitally and create customized offerings for different market segments - across domains and industries, both in India and abroad.

Some examples of offerings include (a) enabling large companies build strategic and cognitive advantage to the customers and markets they serve (b) bringing about large scale shifts in thinking in people (such as customer centric thinking, innovation thinking, solution thinking etc.) and (c) Help organizational workforces upgrade their work practices so that they are future ready

The opportunity as we see it is tremendous, almost parallel to the automation opportunity that is unfolding today in the world. We therefore seek a future-oriented sales leader who can be our business development & sales lead.

We expect you to be the driver of change in Illumine through market pull. You need to be as excited as us, to take up this lab to market story and make it a reality! An ideal candidate will be akin to an evangelist who can showcase the importance of our products to new audiences across geographies

Who can apply ?
- An - opportunity creator,- who is passionate about knowledge-based selling
- You have the capacity to do direct outreach, understand every opportunity & convert it into business
- You are able to build a network of partners for our product portfolio
- You are able to proactively canvas and close deals with potential customers & partners
- You have a command over either of the two markets - corporate or educational
- You have more than 10 years of sales and pre-sales experience in consultative or solution or professional services selling

What is sacrosanct?

To us, philosophy is very important.

Illumine has a strong value system around helping clients build customer trust, delivering human-centric solutions, achieving win-win for all stakeholders – inside and outside, and empowering (not controlling) individuals.  We expect people who come in, to respect the client, keep the client’s interest at the center, and value the ideals described above.

Strategic Data Analyst

for large scale human transformation projects

FULL-TIME | MUMBAI-BASED | MIN. 2 YRS EXPERIENCE

The Opportunity: 

As a Strategic Analyst, you will play a critical role in improving the effectiveness of Illumine’s human transformation projects on the ground.

ILLUMINE is a design & actualization lab that works on large-scale business & cultural transformation projects with leading corporations, and educational institutions in India. Illumine also works on nation-building projects with the Government to build customer/ citizen-centric services.

Working with Illumine will open up a wide range of possibilities to leverage data, technology & digital tools to ensure large-scale human transformation projects can become more scalable, seamless and highly value creating for clients and beneficiaries.

Key roles and responsibilities:

1. Owning the successful implementation of interventions on the ground by providing strategic insights
This involves –

1. Leveraging data to identify hotspots/ areas where early decisions/ remedial action needs to be taken.
2. Identifying issues early (based on patterns) and flagging off for proactive action.
3. Working with the engagement & deployment teams to take the right strategic decision to improve implementation on ground

2. Enabling internal teams to improve their product/ outcomes with data.
This involves –

1. Interfacing with multiple teams (e.g. facilitators/ trainers, learning architects, assessment designers, intervention leaders, tech platform owners) to translate practice-level requirements into meaningful insights.
2. Identifying interdependencies between different products and generating insights that can improve the overall effectiveness of the intervention.
3.  

You will succeed in this role if you have:

• the desire to make a difference to the nation and the lives of citizens
• the excitement to generate new possibilities with data
• rigor in your thinking and an attention to detail
• a good understanding of business and strategy
• a keen interest to understand & impact how people / institutions think, perform and change
• proven capabilities in taking products to completion (e.g. from conceptualizing the analytical model to building reports, dashboards, presentations)
• focus on meeting goals & outcomes – doing everything possible to make the outcome happen rather than focusing on only ‘your part’ or ‘your existing skillset’

Preferred Experience/expertise:

• at least 2 years of overall work experience with data that could include – Analytics, Engineering / Technology, Strategic Consulting, Social Science Research, Cognitive Science, HR / Learning & Organizational Development, Performance / Sports Science, etc.
• ability to engage with clients/ stakeholders
• good written and verbal communication skills

Explore further before applying

• The Illumine Labs Website
• Explore our ideas on YouTube Channel.
• A glimpse into our theory of work here.

What is Knowledge Modeling?

Knowledge modeling is a fundamental practice that deals with the sense making and organization of knowledge into useful, enabling structures which can be applied for human improvement. Knowledge modeling creates a cosmos out of chaos. The Periodic Table, the Linnaeus Taxonomy, the Standard Model of Particle Physics – these are all different examples of knowledge models in the sciences.

Where does Knowledge Modeling make a difference?

In Illumine, we apply this practice on human aspects – mindsets, attitudes, scenarios, challenges, etc. In different human systems like corporate environments, professional communities, educational systems and social communities. Some examples of where we have brought in the power of knowledge modeling are

• Safety in hazardous industrial workplaces e.g., steel plants: Instead of waiting for an accident to happen, we model all the possible hazards and unsafe practices to create an early warning system which alerts everyone and empowers responders to act and prevent accidents.
• Customer delight in public sector services e.g., banks: public sector banks cater to all levels of Indian society and dealing with the vast diversity can be overwhelming and debilitating. Modeling all the millions of interactions into a compact framework of mental outcomes and engagement classes, we empower staff to be ready and precise in their service delivery while ensuring scalability.
• Defusing tensions in citizen facing units e.g., police stations: Modeling the different stories and situations of citizens and their need for police services enables us to design precision responses which the police are ready with. This reduces the possibility of flare-ups and omissions of any kind.

These are some examples. Knowledge modeling can be used to enable people across the line – from CEOs to last mile delivery personnel, from high end counselors to front end retail staff.

What does one need to be able to do Knowledge Modeling?

Knowledge modeling is more and beyond data analytics. It deals with cognitive side of human systems – mindsets, attitudes, dialogues, metaphors, aspirations, challenges, etc. To succeed,

• One has to be able to integrate the rigour of pure sciences (e.g. mathematics, statistics, etc.) with the richness of social sciences (e.g. humanities, ethnography, sociology, psychology, etc.)
• One has to have a knack to find hidden patterns and the desire to connect the dots from structured and unstructured data
• One must have the affinity for building patterns and logical connects that give you a completely new perspective on things

As a person, we expect the following from a potential knowledge modeling professional

• Good academic track record (subject or stream is not important)
• Depth of knowledge in whatever subject / stream that you have chosen
• Confident of standing up and collaborating with a team of highly intelligent, creative, result-oriented multi-disciplinary group of people

Knowledge Project Management is a unique space of contribution, as well as unique area of professional development.  

It requires you to work on products & solutions where the core raw material is knowledge. Working with knowledge & knowledge experts requires a sophisticated set of capabilities that go beyond traditional project management skills.   

Before we dive deep into the role, here are some examples of Knowledge Products that you will get an opportunity to work on in Illumine. 

1. Knowledge Interventions: A unique methodology to bring about precise shifts in thinking & working practices at scale & speed. For e.g. embedding Value Thinking in 80,000 BPS employees of top IT firm. Such interventions have multiple components that need to be put together, such as - Ethnographic research, Report creation, Knowledge Modeling, Content Building, training & managing pool of coaches, measurement in changes in thinking, coach audits etc.  

 

1. Knowledge based Consulting: We work with large corporate in designing new business models, new work models & practices etc. For e.g. building a sustainable business models based on trust-surplus in the insurance and mutual funds business in one of India’s largest financial services company. Such projects also involve multiple facets of knowledge product development & deployment, for e.g. creating visioning products, knowledge tools, knowledge platforms, new knowledge assimilations models etc.  

 

Your role: 

As a Knowledge Project Manager your role is to anchor the both the development & deployment of these knowledge products across various contexts and domains.  

To deliver such Knowledge Products, a Knowledge Project Manager works on one side with knowledge experts who specialize in several disciplines and on other side with client teams. You need to tie up all these different expertise and ensure that they come together to support client’s outcomes. 

However, there are certain complexities involved in Knowledge projects: 

1. Knowledge products have strong creative element and knowledge experts need space & creative freedom and yet they have to be driven in time bound and focused way, so that the client commitments and client outcomes are met.  

1. As a Knowledge Project Manager, you have to build enough appreciation of multiple subjects, to be able to meaningfully engage with multiple experts & understand their point of view and yet retain integrity to the bigger picture.  

This is unique opportunity for people who like to learn new things, engage deeply with subject matter and yet have the right managerial & enabling attitude to take end to end ownership of delivering projects. 

 

 

About Illumine: 

Illumine is a Mumbai-based firm working in the areas of Research, Consulting, Publishing and Scalable Change.   

Illumine has worked on large scale transformation projects across different contexts & domains.  We have partnered with India’s largest and best-known businesses, educational institutions and government and public services departments and community development agencies.   

Through our work we have impacted over four million people by bringing about deep transformation in their lives. 

What is the big picture that you would be part of? 

At the heart of Illumine’s work is unleashing the potential of collectives through knowledge intervention.   

• How to unleash the potential of people in some of India’s largest corporates, public sector institutions, state universities? Is it to be done through providing new professional ideals or new ways of sense-making one’s environment or new methods of working or combinations of these?  
• How do we ensure that interventions are delivered with quality, at scale, with speed?  

These are some of the pieces of the puzzle which we work on in any of the knowledge interventions. If these challenge statements interest you then Illumine can be the right place for you. 

Your contribution spaces: 

Coaches are the foundation on which quality delivery of Illumine’s interventions rest. As the coach leader you can be the builder and custodian of Illumine’s network of coach partners.   

This means two things – 

(a) Setting-up Illumine’s network of coaches for different sectors e.g., corporates, universities  

(b) Nurturing coach partners 

So, on one hand you attract new quality coaches, set up strong selection criteria, contract them with win-win deal. On the other hand, you coach them on specific knowledge interventions to ensure delivery with excellence. 

Who is likely to succeed in this role? 

Ask yourself – 

• Am I interested in building people? 
• Do I see myself evangelizing new ideas/ propositions to people?  
• Do I have strong engagement skills – can I attract, manage, and nurture new coaches? 
• Do I have coaching experience? 

• Do I have the knack of going deeper into new knowledge, new ideas?  

 

Preferred Experience: 

• 5+ years of facilitation and coaching experience in corporates 
• Experience in building community, setting up network/ channels 

 

Explore before you dive: 

1. The Illumine Labs website: https://illumine.in/lab.html 

 

1. Explore our ideas on YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV-gUBhwW6qOQ-IBXC2Nhpg 

 

1. Explore the philosophy that drives our work - http://srinivasv.com/ 
   Our theory of work: www.illumine.in/ageofcontribution 

BUILDING LEARNING PRODUCTS 
TEAM MEMBER, FULL-TIME, MUMBAI-BASED, 4+ YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 

Can you create engaging learning experiences that bring to life deep human ideas? 

 

The opportunity 

This is an opportunity for you to inspire thousands of people (such as students, working professionals, government employees etc.) to bring in positive change in their lives through the power of deep human ideas. As a part of this team, your goal is create learning experiences that help people to discover new ideas, ideals, perspectives, and ways of thinking. 

 

What is expected of you 

 

In this role you are expected to take end-to-end ownership for the knowledge building as well as for creating interesting learning exercises and tools to help users engage with knowledge through a wide range of both digital and physical learning products (such as discovery books, programs, learning assessments, self-learning digital units etc.) 

 

What this involves:  

• Content Research for role models, interviews with clients for context stories, real-life examples etc.  
• Visualization and representation of the context and scenarios to bring it to life for people  
• Creatively visualizing ways to enrich the users learning and engagement with the subject through rich-media, explainers, enactments, etc.  
• Construct the end to end learning experience weaving in the content to meet the messaging goals  

• Continuous user testing for ensuring effectiveness  
• Build an ecosystem of creative partners and work with them to build specific creative components that tie into the learning experience 
• Integration into high-quality, visually packaged, world-class product that can go out to users 

 

The Ideal candidate  

 

You are likely to succeed in this role, if you –  

• Enjoy knowledge and ideas related to human-growth and ideals (e.g. resilience, open-mindedness, courage) 
• Have a strong narrative ability and ability to structure knowledge  
• Ability to visualize engaging learning experiences that communicate ideas  

• Goal focus and ability to build high quality products 

Illumine Foundation works on large-scale knowledge initiatives.

These initiatives aim to address fundamental knowledge failures in society – such as disabling mindsets, poor assimilation of knowledge inputs, poor thinking skills, inability of collectives to design solutions to their own challenges without depending on experts from outside, etc.

We have thus far worked on initiatives which have impacted millions of school children, college-going youth, police, rural housewives, youth in slums, etc. on areas as diverse as awakening self-esteem and an i-can attitude, nutrition education, behavioral change in AIDS, improved engagement with customers and citizens, etc.

One such major initiative is the Contributor Initiative. The goal of the Contributor Initiative is to build a “contributor mindset” in our country, wherein people focus on positive action and finding solutions rather than complaining, blaming, avoiding work, and chasing personal benefit at the cost of collective welfare.

Focus groups include university students, public services, teachers and other members of the education sector, and healthcare sector.

As an intervention leader, you will be responsible for scaling the initiative, which includes:

1. Putting together multi-stakeholder projects involving large public and government institutions, funding agencies/ corporate CSR, and the Foundation.

2. Managing current projects under the contributor initiative, which include two major State-level universities, covering several educational institutions.

3. Assembling the team to help scale the initiative.

What you will need to succeed in this role

1. A deep belief that the solutions to our country’s challenges lie within people themselves and not on financial and other resources (i.e., people are creators of their own destiny).

2. A track record in taking up complete responsibility for a large developmental/ knowledge intervention, and handling it independently, end-to-end.

3. This includes putting the team together, managing various stakeholders, and working with internal and external experts in various aspects of design and delivery of such initiatives.

4. An ability and willingness to reach out to various government, university and public service agencies, and help them recognize the importance of developing a contributor mindset within their organizations.

5. An ability and willingness to reach out to corporate CSR and funding agencies, and put together multi-stakeholder arrangements to ensure that the projects are successful on a sustainable basis.

An ability and willingness to replicate successes across projects, and thereby scale the initiative across the country.


Explore before you connect with us:

1. The Illumine Foundation website: https://illuminefoundation.org/

2. See the website on Illumine Foundation’s sister organization – Illumine Knowledge Resources – which has designed many of these initiatives (https://illumine.in/)

3. Watch videos on Contributorship (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22BD127D49C2E9D7)

4. Read books/ webpages on contributorship (https://bookshelf.illumine.in/ - Change Books)