CSR, Impact & Sustainability
/Founding leadership
Chief CSR & Impact Officer
CSR, ESG & Public-Good Strategy
Compensation
INR 60 LPA - 1 Cr base + meaningful equity. Refreshed annually on contribution and on the rigour of the impact claims under your name.
Engagement
Full-Time
Permanent role. Full-time commitment. Remote-first, with periodic in-person off-sites.
Scope of role
Build the function from zero. Set the strategy. Own the outcome.
01 — The role
Why this role exists at EduRankAI
Own EduRankAI's entire social-impact arc. CSR, ESG reporting, DEI, community programmes, sustainability, public reporting. The Chief CSR Officer reports directly to the Founder's Office and is the senior-most person responsible for whether the public-good claims we make are true. This role exists because the temptation to dilute the impact agenda for quarterly growth is constant, and someone with the authority and the temperament to push back has to own it. You are the conscience of the company and the public credibility of the company in one role. You'll thrive here if: you have spent a career arguing for measurable impact over impact theatre, you can hold a board view and a community view in the same conversation, and you would rather kill a programme than lie about its outcomes. You'll struggle here if: you measure CSR by spend, not effect. You want to outsource integrity to a consulting deck.
02 — The work
What you will own
- 01 Own the multi-year CSR + ESG strategy across the whole company; defend it quarterly against drift.
- 02 Lead all statutory CSR compliance (Companies Act §135 once applicable) and BRSR / GRI / TCFD disclosures end-to-end.
- 03 Own external ESG ratings and the annual ESG / sustainability report — audit-grade, no rounding errors.
- 04 Hire the impact + sustainability org: Director-level direct reports across reporting, programmes, sustainability, DEI.
- 05 Set the DEI strategy and own the public DEI dashboard.
- 06 Represent EduRankAI publicly at industry, government, regulator, and donor forums.
- 07 Defend the impact agenda against short-term commercial pressure — including when the founder is the one applying it.
03 — The expertise
What we look for
04 — The bar
Who thrives here
- → You have led a CSR or impact org of at least 20 people for at least 5 years.
- → You have authored or led the BRSR / GRI / ESG report for a company that was independently audited and survived.
- → You have killed a CSR programme on purpose because the evidence did not support its claims, and written about why.
- → You can defend an impact claim to a hostile regulator for an hour.
- → You have public credibility — at least one op-ed, talk, or named programme that the field recognises.
05 — How we work
The EduRankAI environment
Remote-first, async-first
Work from anywhere. We optimise for deep work, not face time. Periodic in-person off-sites for the full-time team.
High autonomy, high standards
We hire adults and trust them. You will be expected to set your own goals, communicate clearly, and ship.
Builders, not bureaucrats
We optimise for clarity over process. Make the call, ship the work, write up what you learned.
Bharat-built, globally ambitious
We are an Indian frontier AI lab. We build for India first and the world second — in that order.
06 — Hiring process
What to expect after you apply
- 01
Application review
Every application is read personally within five business days. We respond either way.
- 02
Take-home or live exercise
Role-specific. Time-boxed. Real problems we are actually working on, not invented puzzles.
- 03
Conversations
Deep technical and values conversations with the team you would join. No trick questions. No panel ambushes.
- 04
Offer or honest no
If yes: digital offer letter, signed in-portal, transparent terms. If no: written feedback if you want it.
Before you start
What we will collect. What it costs. What we will not do with it.
Application fee
CHF 100
C-Level tier
We will collect
- Name, email, phone — Account + application updates. No marketing.
- Resume / portfolio link — Human review of your work.
- Date + place of birth — Identity verification only.
- Your written responses — Selection rubric. Read by humans.
- Government ID (later) — Anti-fraud at offer / interview stage. Not at signup.
We will never
- Sell your data
- Share with third-party recruiters
- Use for advertising
- Train models on it
- Send marketing email
Our situation
EduRankAI is a small, independent organization building long-term capabilities in educational intelligence, advanced AI systems, and research infrastructure. We take no advertiser money, no donations with strings attached, and no investor pressure on hiring decisions. The small per-application fee covers the real cost of processing your application — human review, identity verification, infrastructure, reviewer time. It buys us the right to be honest. Genuine financial hardship? Request a fee waiver inside the application — reviewed individually within 5 business days, with no record in your file and no second-class treatment of waiver-granted applications.
Ready to apply?
We read every application personally. If you are the right person for this role — regardless of pedigree, background, or where you are based — you will hear back from us within five business days.
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